“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
“I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of suffering in this country and I'm here to help.” PeopleBelieveCountryHelpingSufferingHumanityI BelieveDealsCommonI Believe InPakistan Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi
“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.” PeopleWantHelpingCommonAwarenessResourcesAppealsPakistan Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi
“The basic problem affecting the Pakistan today is human rights. Islamic fundamentalists have no roots among the common people and while they are pushing hard for religious fundamentalists to take hold, the common people still seek change through humanitarian and common human rights law.” PeopleHumansStillsHardProblemTodayLawReligiousCommonRightsRootsHuman RightsHumanitarianIslamicPushingPakistan Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi
“It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.” DreamRealityAbleUnitedEffortDestinyTranslatePakistanOur DreamsOur DestinyDream Reality Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“Every Mussalman should serve Pakistan honestly, sincerely and selflessly.” ShouldHonestlyPakistanSincerely Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world.” WorldLooksI CanNationsJusticePrinciplesSupportBecomingOperationsPakistanImpartialityGuiding PrinciplesBecoming One Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“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
“For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.” NeedsIslamicNationalismSecularPakistanKashmirTheocracy 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
“In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have been dehumanized in an attempt to disseminate enlightenment in those "dark" regions; the discourse of "honor killings" is prevalent in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and has carved a niche in Western academic discourse as another instance of the incorrigible bestiality of the Orient.” PeopleWorldHas BeensDarkHonorEnlightenmentThirdsWestWesternKillingIraqInstancePostsRegionsAfghanistanAcademicDiscoursePakistanFrontiersNicheProvincesThird WorldIncorrigibleHonor Killing 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
“Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in the world's interests.” WorldShouldCountryStatesInterestIndiaIslamicPakistanModeratesProsperousIslamic StateProsperous Country Author:Manmohan Singh
“I sincerely hope that whatever influence the United States has in Pakistan, it will convince Pakistan that using terrorism as an instrument of state policy has no place in the world that we want to build.” WorldWantStatesUnitedUnited StatesInfluencePolicyInstrumentsTerrorismConvincePakistanSincerelyPlaces In The World Author:Manmohan Singh
“If Pakistan honors in letter and in spirit the commitment that it gave to Mr. Vajpayee in 2004, that Pakistan territory will not be used for promoting terrorist acts against India, the sky is the limit of cooperation between our two countries. Basically, we are the same people. There are ties of religion. There are ties of language. There are ties of culture.” PeopleIfsTwoCountryUsedSpiritCultureLanguageSkyHonorLimitsCommitmentLettersIndiaTerroristTiesTerritoryCooperationPakistanPromotingTwo CountriesSky Is The Limit Author:Manmohan Singh
“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
“Obviously Pakistan and the U.S. are very different countries, but we have common geopolitical interests in preventing communist take over in Afghanistan and hence, now that Pakistan has a government that we can cooperate with, even though it is a military government, we are working together with them in order to promote our common interests. But obviously we also differ with Pakistan on a number of issues.” DifferentCountryGovernmentTogetherOrderInterestCommonNumbersIssuesMilitaryWorking TogetherCommunistAfghanistanPakistanPreventingDifferent CountriesCommon InterestsGeopolitical Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“The U.S. has and still is cooperating with various military dictatorships around the world. Obviously we would prefer to see them democratized, but we are doing it because we have national interests, whether it's working with Pakistan on Afghanistan or whatever.” WorldStillsInterestMilitaryVariousAround The WorldAfghanistanDictatorshipPakistanNational InterestsCooperating Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.” WorldMayPoliticalEasyPayEuropeChinaRussiaCanadaIranPakistanYour Freedom Author:Adam Hochschild
“My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.” PeopleProcessFocusProtectElementsCriticalAfghanistanPakistanHomeland Author:Barack Obama
“I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.” IndiaFavorsPakistan Author:Indira Gandhi
“I had recently had the impression they were changing - not so much by becoming less pro-Pakistan as by becoming less anti-India. I was wrong. My visit to [Richard] Nixon did anything but avert the war.” WarBecomingIndiaImpressionPakistanAvert Author:Indira Gandhi
“Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.” PeopleKnowsWarAbleLastsSidesArmyElectionOppositionDo You KnowPakistan Author:Indira Gandhi
“America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country.” IfsHas BeensCountryHelpingAmericaStrongerPakistan Author:Indira Gandhi
“You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.” CountryHelpingDemocracyMilitaryDenyRegimesDefeatedPakistan Author:Indira Gandhi
“India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.” PeopleStillsWarFactsHelpingSeemsAbleLordIndiaIndependentPopulationAidsIndianGovernorsPakistanBotheredKashmir Author:Indira Gandhi
“You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!” StillsTwoTodayFoundSidesBloodBrotherIndiaBritishUnclesPakistanCousinUnnaturalAmbassadorsSwitzerlandNephewPartitionBlood Brothers Author:Indira Gandhi
“I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to live in Pakistan, but the propaganda was that there they'd have greater opportunities and so they left. Many Hindus, on the other hand, didn't want to stay in Pakistan, but they had ties there or property and so they stayed.” PeopleWantHandsRememberOpportunityLeftGreaterIndiaPropertyPropagandaTiesEpisodesPakistan Author:Indira Gandhi
“The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and vice versa. They've never said, for instance, that my party has been fighting this attitude ever since we have maintained that religious hostilities are wrong and absurd, that minorities cannot be eliminated from a country, that people of different religions must live together.” PeopleHas BeensSaidDifferentCountryTogetherFightingReligiousPartyAttitudeEnemyIndiaPressesWesternVicesAbsurdInstanceMinoritiesPakistanHostilityVice VersaDifferent Religions Author:Indira Gandhi
“Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.” PeopleShouldExistenceOughtMassIndiaFollowingAcceptedDestroyedPakistanMadmen Author:Indira Gandhi
“In India you don't find propaganda against Pakistan. During the war there was a little of it, naturally, but even during the war we were able to control it. In fact the Pakistanis were astonished by this. There were prisoners in the camp hospitals who exclaimed, 'What? You're a Hindu doctor and you want to cure me?'” WantLittlesWarFactsAbleDoctorsIndiaCuresPropagandaHospitalsPrisonerCampsPakistan Author:Indira Gandhi
“I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.” BelieveStillsMatterProblemCitiesViolenceCenturyEastIreland20th CenturyPakistanDiscouragedNorthern Ireland Author:Pierre Trudeau
“The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm, we believe in equal rights for all people in all nations. If Israel, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, other countries, China, have the right to have a nuclear program and nuclear bomb, Iran, too, must have that same right. Now, at the realm of realpolitik, because there is a global consensus against Iran, and because there are all manner of dangers facing Iran, I am opposed to this program.” PeopleIfsBelieveTwoCountryStatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesIssuesRightsDangerRight NowEqualProgramIsraelChinaNuclearRussiaRealmsBombsDimensionsIranOther CountriesPakistanConsensusEqual RightsNuclear BombRealpolitik Author:Akbar Ganji
“There [in Afghanistan] is also a growing insurgency threat from al-Qaida, the Taliban and other extremist elements, some of which comes from the tribal areas of Pakistan, as well as from the Northwest Frontier province and Baluchistan.” WellsGrowingElementsAreasThreatAlsAfghanistanPakistanFrontiersExtremistProvincesTalibanInsurgency Author:David Petraeus
“The first official statements of President Asif Ali Zardari's new government have been firm and robust. Pakistan is obviously a renewed democracy.” FirstsHas BeensGovernmentPresidentDemocracyStatementsFirmOfficialsPakistanRobustNew Government Author:David Petraeus
“Pakistan are very keen to carry out the operations themselves. And there's significant effort on the part of the US and other countries to provide assistance that can enable Pakistan to do just that.” CountryEffortSignificantOperationsOther CountriesAssistancePakistan Author:David Petraeus
“President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan that kill women and children. He meets with his advisers every Tuesday morning and signs extrajudicial killings. To me, those are not the actions of a peace person.” HumansChildrenPersonsWarActionPresidentLibertyMorningSupportRightsKillingHuman RightsRemoveAfghanistanPresident ObamaPakistanCivil LibertiesTuesdayDronesAdviserTuesday Morning Author:Mairead Corrigan
“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).” WorldCountryNationsCanvasPakistan Author:Junaid Jamshed
“Pakistan is not a unified country. In large parts of the country, the state is regarded as a Punjabi state, not their (the people's) state.” PeopleCountryStatesPakistanUnifiedPunjabis Author:Noam Chomsky
“Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation).” IfsProblemIndiaPakistanConfrontationIndia Pakistan Author:Noam Chomsky
“Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. It's also extremely dangerous with all the weapons development.” AbleEffortDangerousDevelopmentWeaponsIndianImmensePakistanTolls Author:Noam Chomsky
“The two countries [Pakistan and India] have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.” TwoImportantCountryIndiaNuclearPakistanConfrontationTwo Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both countries [Pakistan and India]. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces.” KindCountryForceIndiaHorribleIndianRegionsControlledCrucialPakistanAtrocitiesSettlementArmed ForcesKashmir Author:Noam Chomsky
“A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry to the country because he wrote on Kashmir. This is a reflection of fractures within society. Pakistan, too, has to focus on the Lashkar [Lashkar-i-Taiba] and other similar groups and work towards some sort of sensible compromise on Kashmir.” YearsCountryFocusGroupsMinesReflectionIndiaCompromiseJournalistSensibleDeniedPakistanEntryKashmirFracture Author:Noam Chomsky
“There is Pakistan's relationship with Afghanistan which will also be a very tricky issue in the coming years. Then there is a large part of Pakistan which is being torn apart from American drone attacks. The country is being invaded constantly by a terrorist superpower. Again, this is not a small problem.” YearsCountryProblemIssuesTerroristAfghanistanTornPakistanTrickySuperpowerDronesTorn ApartSmall Problems Author:Noam Chomsky
“Historically, several policy domains, including that of foreign policy towards the US and India, budget allocations etc, have been controlled by the Pakistani military, and the civil-military divide can be said to be the most fundamental fracture in Pakistan's body politic.” Has BeensSaidBodyMilitaryPolicyIndiaFundamentalsIncludingBudgetsEtcControlledDividesForeign PolicyPakistanDomainFractureAllocation Author:Noam Chomsky
“The military has a huge role in the economy [of Pakistan] with big stakes and, as you say, it has constantly intervened to make sure that it keeps its hold on policy making. Well, I hope, and there seem to be some signs, that the military is taking a backseat, not really in the economy, but in some of the policy issues. If that can continue, which perhaps it will, this will be a positive development.” IfsWellsBigsSeemsRolesEconomyIssuesMilitaryPolicyHugeDevelopmentStakesPakistanBackseatPolicy Making Author:Noam Chomsky
“In Turkey also, for a long time, the military was the decisive force but in the past 10 years they have backed off somewhat and the civilian government has gained more independence and autonomy even to shake up the military command. In fact, it even arrested several high-ranking officers [for interfering in governmental affairs]. Maybe Pakistan can move in a similar direction.” YearsLongFactsGovernmentPastMovingForceMilitaryLong TimeIndependenceAffairCommandShakesOfficersInterferePakistanAutonomyTurkeysCiviliansArrestedRankingMilitary Command Author:Noam Chomsky
“Similar problems are arising in Egypt too. The question is whether the military will release its grip which has been extremely strong for the past 60 years. So this is happening all over the region and particularly strikingly in Pakistan.” YearsHas BeensProblemPastStrongMilitaryHappeningsReleaseRegionsEgyptPakistan Author:Noam Chomsky
“Balochistan, and to some extent Sindh too, has a general feeling that they are not part of the decision-making process in Pakistan and are ruled by a Punjabi dictatorship. There is a lot of exploitation of the rich resources [in Balochistan] which the locals are not gaining from. As long as this goes on, it is going to keep providing grounds for serious uprisings and insurgencies.” LongFeelingsProcessDecisionRichSeriousGoes OnResourcesLocalsDecision MakingProvidingDictatorshipExploitationPakistanUprisingInsurgencyDecision Making ProcessPunjabis Author:Noam Chomsky