“I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live in peace forever.” ForeverIndiaPakistanLooking ForwardCatalystIndia And Pakistan Author:Asif Ali Zardari
“Researchers have been asking a basic question of young people. Should men be allowed to beat their wives? How you answer that question may depend on where you live. U.N. researchers put that question to adolescent girls in India and Pakistan and 53 percent - a majority of girls - said yes, wife beating is justifiable even if it's for refusing sex.” PeopleIfsMenShouldMayHas BeensSaidYoungGirlSexAnswersWifeDependsBeatsPercentIndiaAskingMajorityPakistanResearchersWhere You LiveIndia And PakistanWife Beating Author:Steve Inskeep
“Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah. When the border closes each evening around six o' clock, the soldiers on each side do these amazing high-stepping peacock march-offs (like a dance-off). The displays are almost identical on each side and thousands gather to watch them. Though they're patrolling along their separate borders, what comes across is how similar they are.” SidesWatchesSawsSixIndiaEnglandSoldierEveningClockBordersMarchDisplayDocumentariesPakistanIdenticalPeacockIndia And PakistanPatrolling Author:Matthea Harvey
“The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.” PoliticalCultureCausesPovertyEventsCreationVictoryWeaponsIndiaNuclearPsychologicalIndianNuclear WeaponsPakistanRiotCleansingEthnic CleansingProliferationHavocIndia And Pakistan Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.” TwoIndiaIntellectNuclearIndianAttributesRegimesEntityInferiorsDominantPakistanManipulatePredictableNuclear PowerMystiqueLineageIndia And Pakistan Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“Both India and Pakistan have a long history of deploying rhetorical strategies to skirt the issue of plebiscite or complete secession of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. When feeling particularly belligerent Pakistan cries itself hoarse declaring the legitimacy of plebiscite held under United Nations auspices in J & K; India responds just as aggressively by demanding the complete withdrawal of Pakistani troops from the territory of pre-partition J & K; or, in a moment of neighborly solicitude, for conversion of the LOC to a permanent International border.” LongStatesMomentsFeelingsNationsUnitedIssuesCryIndiaStrategyInternationalConversionFormerPermanentBordersTerritoryTroopsPakistanUnited NationsSkirtsWithdrawalLegitimacyDeclaringRhetoricalKashmirPartitionSecessionSolicitudeIndia And PakistanDeployingLocsJammuJammu And KashmirRhetorical Strategies Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“My vision is to work for the relationship between India and Pakistan which would be like the relation between Canada and the United States.” StatesWould BeUnitedVisionUnited StatesIndiaRelationCanadaPakistanIndia And PakistanCanada And The United States Author:Manmohan Singh
“So the idea about how detonation of a nuclear weapon might happen vary, you know - some people are especially concerned about terrorists getting their hands on nuclear weapons and using them. Some people are worried that there might be a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. Some think the Middle East, were Israel already has nuclear weapons and where other countries may be interested at some point and acquiring them, might be a flash point.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMayIdeasWarCountryHandsMightHappensMiddleWeaponsConcernedIndiaIsraelEastNuclearTerroristWorriedMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsFlashOther CountriesPakistanVaryNuclear WarIndia And Pakistan Author:John Burroughs
“Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.” CountryViewsCasesClearWeaponsIndiaNuclearSignificantElitesNuclear WeaponsTicketsPakistanPrestigeIndia And Pakistan Author:John Burroughs
“Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal political and economic policies of countries like India and Pakistan where tons of money are currently being spent on atomic weaponry. This is abhorrent!” WarCountryPoliticalRaceEconomicPolicyArmsConsequenceIndiaDramaticLinkedPakistanSuicidalEconomic PolicyArms RaceWeaponryKosovoAbhorrentIndia And PakistanResumption Author:Paul Virilio
“The animosity between India and Pakistan is deeply unfortunate and dangerous, and it's something I've long campaigned to reduce. But right now, when there's artillery being exchanged in Kashmir - which is not for from here, either - and there are 100-ish nuclear weapons on each side of the border, there's never really been a case like this where two nuclear armed countries are happily shelling each other.” LongTwoCountrySidesCasesDangerousRight NowWeaponsIndiaNuclearBordersNuclear WeaponsUnfortunatePakistanAnimosityArtilleryKashmirIndia And Pakistan Author:Mohsin Hamid
“You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.” WorldWholeProblemLawNamesNaturalReligiousIndiaMythologyIrelandPakistanOutlookNatural LifeIndia And PakistanIndia Pakistan Author:Jack Kevorkian
“I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan and America do to oppress others and to deceive their own people is a dangerous world.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayCountryAmericaDangerousWeaponsIndiaNuclearNuclear WeaponsDeceivingPakistanDangerous WorldIndia And Pakistan Author:Arundhati Roy
“Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both India and Pakistan. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces. This is feeding right back into society even in the domain of elementary civil rights.” KindForceRightsIndiaHorribleCivil RightsIndianRegionsControlledCrucialFeedingPakistanDomainAtrocitiesSettlementArmed ForcesKashmirIndia And Pakistan Author:Noam Chomsky
“Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote or write in the popular press, like Saramago, Vargas Llosa, and Eco. This strikes me as one way of avoiding opinionated fiction, and allowing your imagination a broader latitude. Similarly, fiction writers from places like India and Pakistan are commonly expected to provide primers to their country's histories and present-day conflicts. But we haven't had that tradition in Anglo-America.” WayWritingCountryAmericaPoliticalImaginationViewsFictionHavensConflictTraditionIndiaPressesExpectedStrikesOne WayLatinAllowingAvoidingPakistanColumnsLatin AmericaIntriguedPresent DayFiction WritersEcoOpinionatedAmerican WriterLatitudePolitical ViewLatin AmericanIndia And Pakistan Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.” FeelsCommonIndiaIsraelPakistanPalestineIndia And Pakistan Author:Freida Pinto
“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.” WorldHappensAreasIdealsIndiaIndianBordersGuaranteesSanePakistanKashmirIdeal WorldIndia And Pakistan Author:Salman Rushdie
“Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.” ShouldTwoCountryStatesWould BeDarkInfluenceIndiaIndianRisingAfghanistanClientsPakistanHostileParanoiaTalibanUnderestimatedIndia And Pakistan Author:Salman Rushdie
“People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.” PeopleYearsLastsAsksIndiaDialogueInitiativePakistanBiharIndia And PakistanIndia Pakistan Author:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
“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.” UsePolicyIndiaInstrumentsTerrorismMeaningfulDialogueAbandonSentimentsOverwhelmingForeign PolicyPakistanBiharIndia And PakistanIndia Pakistan Author:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
“We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.” BelieveEndsStatesPlayCommunityUnitedRolesUnited StatesInfluenceCrossesIndiaInternationalTerrorismPermanentBordersVisiblePakistanInternational CommunityBiharIndia And Pakistan Author:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
“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.” ThinkingWorldUseDealsIndiaRelationFriendlyPakistanSincerelyQuaidQuaid AzamIndia And PakistanIndia Pakistan Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.” IdeasUnitedJudgmentIndiaDisasterPakistanTerrificQuaidQuaid AzamIndia And PakistanIndia Pakistan Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.” PresidentIndiaChinaDefenseNuclearUrgesPakistanPresident BushMissilesArsenalIndia And PakistanMissile Defense Author:Anna Lindh
“It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.” WorldStatesStepsWeaponsIndiaTablesIncludingIsraelNuclearRussiaConcreteNuclear WeaponsDefinitePakistanDisarmamentAbolitionIndia And Pakistan Author:Daniel Ellsberg
“If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.” IfsGovernmentFightingNationsDealsGroupsCitizensIndiaTerrorTerroristPatriotismMidstDefeatedPakistanIndia And Pakistan Author:William Kristol