Pakistan Quotes - Page 15

• Pakistan's political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children.

  Bruce Riedel

  Leadership, Country, Children

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• Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Pakistan is at last finding its voice. The US would be wise not to gag it" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2008.

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• Folks, we're starting to learn more and more about that man arrested in the New York SUV car bombing case. His name is Faisal Shahzad. He's from Pakistan. What tipped off the authorities he might be the bomber? His name is Faisal Shahzad. He's from Pakistan.

  Jay Leno

  New York, Men, Names

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• I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in response to that on the part of the security forces and the government, but particularly the army. And you see Pakistan actually fighting terrorism and terrorists in a much more wholehearted way than had been occurring previously. It's not anywhere close to over yet, but you've seen a big change in the antiterrorism campaign here.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Couple, Fighting, Army

  "Pakistan Ends Another Year With A Horrifying Attack". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• In some big cities [in Pakistan] some women have access to a job and education - but the UN reported that more than 5 million girls cannot go to school. It's become an open secret. In some big cities they build schools to deceive people around the world, while the level of education remains very low, and even when they can go to school there is no security.

  Malalai Joya

  Girl, Jobs, School

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• Did you hear this? They say now Osama bin Laden and his buddy Mullah Omar have left Afghanistan dressed as women. They dressed up as women and went across the border into Pakistan. I think they're going to make a movie about it. They're going to call it 'Some like it Jihad.'

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Borders, Osama Bin Laden

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• A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.

  Donald E. Graham

  Couple, Eye, Political

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• Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

  Asif Ali Zardari

  Issues, Political, Democracy

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• If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act of God, or a natural disaster, or something like that, the way we could have through all of human history until 35 or 40 years ago.

  Bill McKibben

  Texas, Years, Able

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Pakistan is the most dangerous country on Earth.

  Joseph Cirincione

  Country, Earth, Dangerous

  Joseph Cirincione (2013). “Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late”, p.119, Columbia University Press

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• We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.

  Bob Graham

  Military, War, Responsibility

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• I note that [Benazir] Bhutto demonstrates her own deep commitment to democracy by giving herself the title chairperson for life of the Pakistan Peoples Party.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Commitment, Giving

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• You all have to make a new Pakistan. Naya Pakistan is not a slogan - it's a belief.

  Imran Khan

  Belief, Slogans

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• If there is one venue where Pakistan can beat Australia, then Adelaide is that ground

  Imran Khan

  Australia, Adelaide, Beats

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• I believe that the Israelis and the Palestinians, by and large, want peace, they each want their own country, and they want to get along, and they are going to get along. I know it sounds unbelievable, but I know enough about this, having been there, that these are sophisticated people. It's not like in Pakistan, where people have been told about Jews for a thousand years but don't know any. The Palestinians know the Jews.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Believe, Years

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• If Pakistan NSA wants to come he is welcome. But talks will only be on terrorism. No scope for expansion of agenda.

  Sushma Swaraj

  Nsa, Expansion, Agendas

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• Pakistan is, I always feel, hopeful. You know, our system of government is not, and the system of foreign policy whereby we do whatever is asked of us as long as the price is right only proves to fundamentalist outfits and to militant groups that when we talk of things like democracy, when we talk of things like foreign policy, what we're really talking about is being pro-American.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Government, Talking, Long

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

  Peter King

  Leadership, Iraq, Jail

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• I dont know what to bowl at him. I bowled an inswinger and he drove me through covers of the front foot. Then I bowled an outswinger and he again punched through covers of the backfoot. He is the toughest batsmen I've bowled to. He shold live long and score lots of runs, but not against Pakistan.

  Wasim Akram

  Running, Feet, Long

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• Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian democracy for a few years but she also was the woman who had defeated Pakistan in war at a time when most male politicians in India had secretly feared fighting that war, so that here in India even today Indira Gandhi is called by Indian nationalists the only man ever to have governed India.

  Aravind Adiga

  Mother, Powerful, War

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Indian batsmen, including Virat Kohli will find it difficult to score runs against Pakistan.

  Wasim Akram

  Running, Score, Difficult

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• Call me 'Tuk-Tuk', and keep saying it, but remember I am the captain of Pakistan.

  Misbah-ul-Haq

  Captains, Remember, Call Me

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• We invaded Afghanistan to find bin Laden. We found him in Pakistan, and we're still in Afghanistan. We need better GPS.

  Andy Borowitz

  Gps, Needs, Found

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Mar 11, 2012

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• Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

  Imran Khan

  Cricket Match, Games, Entrepreneur

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• No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Height, Sides, Glory

  Speech at a meeting of the Muslim University Union, Aligarh, March 10, 1944.

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