Pakistan Quotes

“It's no wonder I was so fascinated. The kind of home I imagine--one that offers stability and encouragement and the space to learn and grow as an individual--is a luxury I never had growing up.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

“Pakistan, she observed, had a policy of “profiting from the disputes of others,” and she cited Pakistan’s desire to benefit from tension between the great powers and Pakistan’s early focus on the Palestine dispute as examples of this tendency. “Pakistan was occupied with her own grave internal problem, but she still found time to talk fervently of sending ‘a liberation army to Palestine to help the Arabs free the Holy Land from the Jews”
― Husain Haqqani, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military

“There are all the hidden menaces of long journeys on the way.
But we shall go.
Treat it as exile or a new beginning.”
― Osama Siddique, Snuffing out the Moon

“Suhrawardy, who was barred from politics by Ayub Khan, challenged the concept of Pakistan as an ideological state. Emphasis on ideology, he argued, “would keep alive within Pakistan the divisive communal emotions by which the subcontinent was riven before the achievement of independence.”
― Husain Haqqani, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military

“The uneasy symbiosis between a military authoritarian state and democratic political processes is often attributed to the artificial nature of the country and the lack of a neat fit between social identities at the base and the arbitrary frontiers drawn by the departing colonial masters.”
― Ayesha Jalal, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

“Starting a war is in our hands, it is easy. But ending a war, that is not in our hands and no one knows what will happen.”
― Imran Khan

“Bhutto’s role in the post- 1970 election crisis has to be assessed in the light of the positions taken by Mujib and Yahya Khan, not to mention the structural obstacles in the way of a smooth transfer of power from military to civilian rule in Pakistan.”
― Ayesha Jalal, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

“The Jamaat-e-Islami played a key role in mobilizing theologians to favor an Islamic constitution. It maintained a hard-line posture against India and helped the state by describing leftists, secularists, and ethnic nationalists as “anti-Islam unbelievers.”
― Husain Haqqani, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military

“Although much thought might not have gone into creating the separate state of Pakistan, considerable effort was now expended on defining, justifying, and protecting it.”
― Husain Haqqani, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military

“Notwithstanding the fact that the Pakistani army had been created out of the British Indian army and had inherited all the professional qualifications of its colonial predecessor, within the first few months of independence it was also moving in the direction of adopting an Islamic ideological coloring.”
― Husain Haqqani, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military

“As in many insecure states, in Pakistan the line between preventing the nation’s enemies from causing it harm and declaring everyone who disagrees with the government an enemy of the nation was blurred.”
― Husain Haqqani, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military

“If concerns about national identity led to an emphasis on religious ideology, the need for keeping the military well supplied resulted in Pakistan’s alliance with the United States.”
― Husain Haqqani, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military

“General Iskander Mirza had shared with the high commissioner the view that democracy was unsuited to a country like Pakistan, even as plans were publicly laid out for general elections. The high commissioner reported that the president had told him of his intention to intervene “if the election returns showed that a post-electoral government was likely to be dominated by undesirable elements.”
― Husain Haqqani, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military

“The traditional ulema and Islamists used the environment of jihad to advance their own agenda, and one agenda item was that they should be accepted as custodians of Pakistan’s ideology and identity. After the war, several state-sponsored publications were devoted to building the case that one Muslim soldier had the fighting prowess to subdue five Hindus.”
― Husain Haqqani, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military

“Pakistan’s first crop of leaders at the center consisted mainly of migrants from India with limited or no real bases of support in the provinces. Suspicious of their provincial counterparts, émigré politicians at the center focused on consolidating state authority rather than building the Muslim League into a popularly based national party.”
― Ayesha Jalal, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

“With the potentially disruptive issue of the role of Islam in the state temporarily out of the way, the praetorian guard and its mandarin friends sanguinely accepted the constituent assembly’s stance on fundamental rights. As they knew only too well, the proof of the pudding lay in the eating.”
― Ayesha Jalal, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

“For China, the economic corridor has two aims, to open up an alternative route for oil imports from the Middle East, and to persuade Pakistan to do more to combat violent extremism seeping over its border. The vision is driven by strategic factors, not commercial logic.”
― Tom Miller, China's Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk Road

“I was devastated to learn that both my parents were facing persecution and insults from the entire family. They had failed to raise me to follow the “right path.” The fact that I was adopted was cited as a reason, I was told. Town gossips gleefully whispered juicy details about my misdeeds and my parents’ equally horrific failure to raise their only son to be a good Shia Muslim. The fact that my dear parents were being judged and persecuted felt worse than anything anyone could have done to me personally. It was second only to their desperate pleas with me to label my decisions as mere crimes of passion...”
― Ali Master, Beyond the Golden Door: Seeing the American Dream Through an Immigrant's Eyes

“The breakup of Pakistan was the result of the autocratic policies of its state managers rather than the inherent difficulties involved in welding together linguistically and culturally diverse constituent units. Islam proved to be dubious cement not because it was unimportant to people in the different regions. Pakistan’s regional cultures have absorbed Islam without losing affinity to local languages and customs. With some justification, non- Punjabi provinces came to perceive the use of Islam as a wily attempt by the Punjabi- led military–bureaucratic combine to deprive them of a fair share of political and economic power. Non- Punjabi antipathy toward a Punjabi- dominated center often found expression in assertions of regional distinctiveness.”
― Ayesha Jalal, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

“Tarring regional demands with the Indian brush became such an entrenched part of the official discourse of nationalism in Pakistan that the managers of the centralized state regarded legitimate demands for provincial autonomy with deep suspicion.”
― Ayesha Jalal, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

“What came in the wake of 1971 promised to be an endless trial by fire for the constituent units of a Pakistani federation that the military in league with the central bureaucracy insisted on governing as a quasi- unitary state.”
― Ayesha Jalal, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

“On the subcontinent, Pakistan has passed the point where solar power is cheaper than a lot of electricity that comes from diesel generators,and India is upping its target from 20 to 33 gigawatts to be installed by 2020”
― Danny Kennedy, Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and Our Planet from Dirty Energy

“Bhutto decided to fulfll his long- held dream of using Pakistan’s existing nuclear energy infrastructure to embark on a rapid nuclear weapon’s program. As minister for fuel, power, and national resources in Ayub Khan’s cabinet, he played an active part in the formation of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). A strong proponent of acquiring nuclear capability, Bhutto faced stern opposition from Ayub who was worried about the repercussions this could have on Pakistan’s pro- Western foreign policy.”
― Ayesha Jalal, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

“Even after 72 years of partition, Pakistan is still dependent upon India for both its sadness (when India succeeds at something) and its happiness (when India fails at something). What sort of Independence is this, dear Pakistan?”
― Nitya Prakash

“At 11.25 a.m. on 16 July 2016, Adil Nizami, a twenty-five-year-old rookie reporter from Multan, broke the biggest story of his career. ‘Famous model Qandeel Baloch has been killed,’ he blurted out in a live call that interrupted 24 News’ regular morning bulletin.”
― sanam maher, The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch

“In the distance, smoke plumes from brick kilns where men, women and children will spend their entire lives on their knees under the sun cooling, patting, stacking, packing red bricks that are sent across the country. They will never leave that burning land, always thousands of rupees short of freeing themselves from their debts to the kiln’s owner”
― Sanam Maher, The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch

“A journalist, will tell you about a place not too far from here, where the tribal belt of Balochistan province starts, where the women are not given any shoes. When you don’t understand what he means, he will impatiently explain, ‘If you’re not wearing shoes and you walk outside, where will your eyes remain? You’ll never look up—never look at any man—if you’re scared of where your naked foot might fall when you leave your home.”
― Sanam Maher, The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch

“My childhood crush once gave me a name.
‘Qandeel?’
It’s the name everyone knows me by.
Q—Queen
A—Appealing
N—Naughty
D—Dazzling
E—Elegant
E—Exquisite
L—Lovely
Well, that’s Qandeel.
But Qandeel who?
Qandeel from Shah Sadar Din, a girl who belongs to the Baloch Ma’arah
tribe.
Qandeel Baloch.
Yes. That worked. Qandeel. It was a beautiful name. What did it mean?
Qandeel ka matlab hai roshni. The light.”
― Sanam Maher, The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch

“Terrorists banned in Pakistan and Dowry banned in India...”
― Nitya Prakash

“One minute silence for those who think that the current situation (COVID-19 and Economy instability) of Pakistan is due to their PM. Our nation badly needs to learn causality.”
― Sayam Asjad