quotes about Pakistan
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Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.
-- Al Green -
We invaded Afghanistan to find bin Laden. We found him in Pakistan, and we're still in Afghanistan. We need better GPS.
-- Andy Borowitz -
I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.
-- Asif Ali ZardariSource : "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. December 2, 2008.
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I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.
-- Asif Ali Zardari -
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The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
-- Atal Bihari Vajpayee -
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
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I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
I would like to help my people in any way I can. It's difficult times in Pakistan and we all have to help.
-- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari -
I am chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.
-- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari -
I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan,
-- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari -
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Shahidullah Shahid said there is nothing Islamic in Pakistan’s constitution. He clearly can’t read. The truth is there is nothing Islamic in the TTP.
-- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari -
I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.
-- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari -
Enron CEO Kenneth Lay has apparently just slipped across the border into Pakistan.
-- David Letterman -
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
-- Eric Hobsbawm -
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I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
-- Freida Pinto -
Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism .. Both the countries are facing a common threat of terrorism and we know that Pakistan is even more committed to fighting this menace
-- Gordon Brown -
I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.
-- Greg Mortenson -
I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
-- Greg Mortenson -
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Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother
-- Hamid Karzai -
No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.
-- Hamid KarzaiSource : "Afghanistan's Karzai criticises U.S., Pakistan in farewell speech". www.reuters.com. September 23, 2014.
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Misbah is rated far higher outside Pakistan than within. Afridi is rated far higher in Pakistan than outside!
-- Harsha BhogleSource : Twitter post from Mar 19, 2015
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These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
-- Imran Khan -
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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
-- Imran Khan -
Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.
-- Jahangir KhanSource : "Squash great Khan fears for Pakistan sport". www.foxnews.com. August 14, 2013.
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I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.
-- Jahangir Khan -
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There's no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
-- Leon Panetta -
In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, at that time I realized that education ... Is the power for women, and that's why the terrorists are afraid of education
-- Malala Yousafzai -
We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
-- Manmohan Singh -
Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.
-- Max Cleland -
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I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.
-- Mia Kirshner -
I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan.
-- Mian Muhammad Mansha -
Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.
-- Mian Muhammad Mansha -
Call me 'Tuk-Tuk', and keep saying it, but remember I am the captain of Pakistan.
-- Misbah-ul-Haq -
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Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.
-- Mohsin Hamid -
The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
-- Mohsin Hamid -
Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.
-- Mohsin Hamid -
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.
-- Mohsin Hamid -
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There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.
-- Muhammad Ali Jinnah -
I am NOT fighting for Muslims, believe me, when I demand Pakistan.
-- Muhammad Ali Jinnah -
I cannot understand the logic of those who have been deliberately and mischievously propagating that the Constitution of Pakistan will not be based on Islamic Sharia. Islamic principles today are as much applicable to life as they were 1300 years ago.
-- Muhammad Ali Jinnah -
I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world.
-- Muhammad Ali Jinnah -
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Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language
-- Narendra Modi -
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.
-- Norman Borlaug -
Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
-- Pervez Musharraf -
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.
-- Peter Bergen -
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What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?
-- Richard Armitage -
The most dangerous country for the U.S. now is Pakistan. ... We haven't been this vulnerable since the British burned Washington in 1814.
-- Robert Gallucci -
Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
-- Sachin Tendulkar -
We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.
-- Salman Khurshid -
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In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.
-- Salman Rushdie -
You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.
-- Satyajit Ray -
There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.
-- Sebastian Junger -
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We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament.
-- Shane Warne -
The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-ChinoySource : "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.
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Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.
-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy -
Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.
-- Shaukat Aziz -
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Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.
-- Shaukat Aziz -
Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.
-- Sourav Ganguly -
The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.
-- Sourav Ganguly -
Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.
-- Stephen HadleySource : "Bush seeks to calm Pakistani worries" by Jo Johnson and Caroline Daniel, www.ft.com. March 4, 2006.
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Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.
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Pakistan without Ajmal is like car without engine
-- Sunil Gavaskar -
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
-- Ted Rall -
More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.
-- Thomas E. Donilon -
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My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
-- Tino Sehgal -
Indian batsmen, including Virat Kohli will find it difficult to score runs against Pakistan.
-- Wasim Akram -
We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!
-- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto -
Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.
-- Zulfikar Ali BhuttoSource : The New York Times, July 06, 1973.
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Everyone in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a potential target. My heart goes out to the UN family in Afghanistan: in spite of everything, they are showing fortitude. But they will need the support of the whole world at this difficult time.
-- Chris AlexanderSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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Geraldo Rivera says Osama bin Laden is hiding out in Pakistan ... which means the most hated man in Afghanistan is now Geraldo Rivera.
-- Conan O'Brien -
Moscow has been helping the Northern Alliance because "the Taliban was openly supported by Pakistan... until last week, Pakistani servicemen had taken part in war operations on the Taliban side.
-- Sergei Ivanov -
If Pakistan feels Indian positions are pre-conditions, then there will be no talks.
-- Sushma Swaraj -
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Pakistan is running away from talks which will be held only when we get reply. Time available is only tonight.
-- Sushma Swaraj -
If Pakistan NSA wants to come he is welcome. But talks will only be on terrorism. No scope for expansion of agenda.
-- Sushma Swaraj -
I want to create awareness amongst the common people of Pakistan and I generally appeal to the Pakistani people living here and abroad for help and they provide me with the necessary resources.
-- Abdul Sattar EdhiSource : Source: www.irinnews.org
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If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.
-- Michael WinterbottomSource : Source: www.indiewire.com
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Whenever you see riot footage on TV - you know, someone throwing a brick in Pakistan or somebody throwing a fiery piece of pooh through a Starbucks window up in Seattle - you ever see anybody throwing anything underhand? I think it just takes all the aggression out of the act.
-- Brian Posehn -
There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. And open defecation has significant health and nutritional consequences.
-- Geeta Rao Gupta -
I want to convey a message to the Sri Lankan government that they should seriously consider sending Sri Lankan Cricket Team to Pakistan.
-- Sanath Jayasuriya -
We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.
-- Jon Porter -
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Pakistan is the most dangerous country on Earth.
-- Joseph CirincioneSource : Joseph Cirincione (2013). “Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late”, p.119, Columbia University Press
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We can't say whether Tehran is supporting Al Qaeda, but we do know that al-Qaida people come here from Pakistan through Iran.
-- Zalmay KhalilzadSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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The same goes for the refugees. Mrs.[Indira] Gandhi says ten million. It's obvious she started with that figure in order to legalize her offensive and invade East Pakistan. But when we invited the United Nations to check, the Indians were opposed. Why were they opposed? If the figure were exact, they shouldn't have been afraid of its being verified.
-- Zulfikar Ali BhuttoSource : Source: dhakadigest.net
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Now the canvas is not just my country Pakistan, but now the canvas is the entire world. Now the canvas is the entire ummah (Muslim nation).
-- Junaid JamshedSource : Source: irusa.org
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I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.
-- Kumail NanjianiSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.
-- Kumail NanjianiSource : "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.
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If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.
-- Lynsey AddarioSource : Source: www.marieclaire.com