Pakistan Quotes - Page 5

• We played well in Kenya. We didn't lose a game and we bowled Pakistan out for 100 twice. We don't need to change much from that for this tournament.

  Shane Warne

  Change, Games, Needs

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• 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

  People, Way, Helping

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• Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace Mullah Mohammed Omar. And the most ominous sign of all, President Bush has learned all their names.

  Argus Hamilton

  Kings, Fall, Names

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• I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, Hate, People

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2009). “Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time”, p.138, Penguin

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• Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Essentials, Raw Materials, Poppies

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• Some would ask which country am I from? We are supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought it was Indiana, not India! Some did not know where India is. I said it is the country next to Pakistan.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, India, Next

  "The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century".

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• If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when more victims than ever were hanged by Iran, women and children in Afghanistan were bombed, whole communities were massacred in South Sudan, 1800 Palestinians were starved and murdered by Assad in Syria, hundreds in Pakistan were killed by jihadist terror attacks, 10,000 Iraqis were killed by terrorists, villagers were slaughtered in Nigeria, but you only cry out for Gaza, then you are not Pro Human Rights, you are only Anti-Israel.

  Hillel Neuer

  Children, Past, Rights

  "Test yourself: Are you pro human rights, or just anti-Israel?". blog.unwatch.org. July 15, 2014.

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• The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Player, Trying, Comeback

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• Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror and in some sense a battleground of the war on terror.

  Stephen Hadley

  War, Allies, Terror

  "Bush seeks to calm Pakistani worries" by Jo Johnson and Caroline Daniel, www.ft.com. March 4, 2006.

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• Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

  Narendra Modi

  India, Language, Should

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• To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

  Keith O'Brien

  Christian, Religious, Government

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• Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Reputation, Ifs, Destroyed

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• Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".

  William C. Brown

  Children, Errors, Names

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• The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Thinking, Iran

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• I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Literacy, Afghanistan

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• Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 19

  Greg Mortenson

  Long, Mentor, Valleys

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• Shahidullah Shahid said there is nothing Islamic in Pakistan’s constitution. He clearly can’t read. The truth is there is nothing Islamic in the TTP.

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

  Islamic, Constitution, Truth Is

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• We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.

  Salman Khurshid

  People, Wish, India

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• The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

  Philip Alston

  Rights, Law, United States

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• If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.

  William Kristol

  Fighting, Government, India And Pakistan

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• At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Leadership, India And Pakistan, America

  "A need for U.S. to lead" by Ellen Tauscher, www.sfgate.com. September 24, 2006.

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• Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship.

  Simon Cameron

  Country, Military, Past

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• All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Dream, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Documentary Wins Oscar". tribune.com.pk. February 27, 2012.

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• Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

  Max Cleland

  Politics, Als, Should

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• Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Paris, Secret, Unions

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.274, Canongate Books

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