Pakistan Quotes - Page 14

• We can't say whether Tehran is supporting Al Qaeda, but we do know that al-Qaida people come here from Pakistan through Iran.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Iran, People, Als

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of these musicians found themselves out of work. They were brought together at Sachal Studios by Izzat Majeed, who built the studio in order to preserve these musical traditions.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Order, Law, Musical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Despite their rising international acclaim, Sachal Studios remains virtually unknown in Pakistan. The ensemble is faced with a daunting task: to reclaim and reinvigorate an art that has lost its space in Pakistan's narrowing cultural sphere.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Art, Space, Tasks

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in Pakistan, dealing with Urdu and Punjabi dialogue with an English-speaking editor and all the difficulties in recording, editing and clearing so many music tracks.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Unique, Editing, Editors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think in Pakistan there is already democracy and no dictatorship. And recently a few years ago, the Pakistani people stood against the dictatorship of [Pervez] Musharraf and compelled him to resign. So now it is the people's democracy so I don't think any chance that the people should stand against this administration. Pakistan's situation is different than Egypt. They cannot be compared.

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Thinking, Egypt, Years

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, Military, Past

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• The dynamics of the Taliban now appear to be very different and complex, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they attack governments and mainstream parties.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Government, Different

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Responsibility, Past, Islam

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• There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as he got out of jail. That's a third world reaction and they understand it. Cuba played an enormous role in the liberation of Africa and the overthrow of Apartheid, sending doctors and teachers to the poorest places in the world, to Haiti, to Pakistan after the earthquake, almost everywhere. The internationalism is just astonishing. I don't think there has been anything like it in history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Thinking, Doctors

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation with India).

  Noam Chomsky

  India, Confrontation, Ifs

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• 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. The two countries have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Two, Effort

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both India and Pakistan. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces. This is feeding right back into society even in the domain of elementary civil rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, India And Pakistan, Kashmir

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• There is no doubt that this fusion of terrorist and Muslim feeds virulent forms of Islamophobia, which is also encouraged by such incidents as the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi and the Anglican Church bombing in Pakistan. 9/11 greatly intensified this tendency toward fusion, but it had also been nurtured by Israeli propaganda that portrayed their Palestinian and Arab adversaries as "terrorists." In fact, the US government approach after 9/11 was modeled in many of its features on Israeli tactics developed during the long occupation of Palestine.

  Richard A. Falk

  Government, Long, Doubt

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me - and, you know, we live in a world where there is a constant feed from social media, the news, etc., of things that can scare us. And we become so anxious because human beings are meant - are designed to be sensitized to dangerous stuff.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Media, Scare

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Past, India

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• Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen (with the occasional drone strike in Pakistan). In addition, the United States is pledged to defend 28 countries in NATO. It is unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Military, Fighting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The same goes for the refugees. Mrs.[Indira] Gandhi says ten million. It's obvious she started with that figure in order to legalize her offensive and invade East Pakistan. But when we invited the United Nations to check, the Indians were opposed. Why were they opposed? If the figure were exact, they shouldn't have been afraid of its being verified.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Order, East, Offensive

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• Just a few years ago India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one country. Actually, we were many countries if you count the princely states.... Then the British drew a line, and now we're three countries, two of them pointing nukes at each other - the radical Hindu bomb and the radical Muslim bomb.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Years, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium - even India, Pakistan. Having destroyed so much to make them, we must have nuclear weapons to protect them - and climate change to hold up their way of life... a two-pronged annihilation project.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, Blood, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What I've said is we're going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our nonmilitary aid to Pakistan so that they have more of a stake in working with us, but insisting that they go after these militants.

  Barack Obama

  Democracy, Aids, Stakes

  Source: www.today.com

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• 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.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Morning, Children, War

  Source: www.progressive.org

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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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• 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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• 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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