#pakistan

Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels. ↗

— Shaukat Aziz

#danger #defeat #fight #independence #levels

So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#country #fond #i #life #lot

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

#arabia #as far as #dead #either #far

We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences. ↗

— Susan Rice

#afghanistan #assuming #consequences #germany #honest

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#community #grips #harsh #harsh reality #know

Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#intimacy #karachi #love #pakistan #romance