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Quotes About Pakistan

I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.
~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
I am chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.
~ Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.
~ Peter MacKay
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
The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.
~ Mian Muhammad Mansha
I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe.
~ Mohsin Hamid
In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.
~ Janine di Giovanni
People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
~ Samina Baig
I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
~ Malala Yousafzai
I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
~ Malala Yousafzai
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
It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the place that you come from. But that, in itself, is just a political view.
~ Mohsin Hamid
What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
~ Salman Rushdie
Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
~ Robert Dallek
The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.
~ Barton Gellman
Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
~ Malala Yousafzai
Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
~ Pankaj Mishra
The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.
~ Barbara Demick
There's a lot of information on Iran in the files and computer discs captured at the Pakistan hideout of Osama bin Laden.
~ Michael T. Flynn
With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there.
~ Nargis Fakhri
Sadly, Indians are not very easily accepted in Pakistan, and that has a lot to do with the governments.
~ Arjun Kapoor
It's not that, living in Pakistan, I feel an enormous constraint on how I can write and what I can say; rather, I recognize that one has to navigate these things... Am I aware of things that one could say that would be risky or that could be dangerous? Certainly I'm aware of those things.
~ Mohsin Hamid
No one wants to friend or follow covert info about Pakistan's nuclear policy.
~ Jen Lancaster
Pakistan has done some really terrible things, and yet they also have facilitated our military capabilities in ways that are critical to our country.
~ Trent Franks