Pakistan Quotes - Page 7

• There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.

  Leon Panetta

  Als, Location, Areas

  "CIA Director Leon Panetta: Serious Problems With Afghanistan War but Progress Being Made". "This Week" with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. June 27, 2010.

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• The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Rights

  George Mikes (1959). “How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained”

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• What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

  Richard Armitage

  India And Pakistan, Mind, Als

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• Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

  Akshay Kumar

  War, Years, People

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• There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.

  Peter MacKay

  Country, World, Today

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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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• The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Government, Allies, Policy

  "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.

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• I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Thinking, Turkeys, Talking

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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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• You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.

  Satyajit Ray

  Want, Limits, Certain

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

  Mother, Government, Adequate

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• Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.

  Richard Holbrooke

  People, Enemy, Wish

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• I want to see young people who as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as their young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the Gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places, you know, because we have... excuse me, but we have the truth!

  Becky Fischer

  Jesus, Israel, People

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• Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Australia, India, Bangladesh

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• Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.

  Shaukat Aziz

  Taken, Israel, Decision

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• 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

  Fighting, Independence, Levels

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• We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.

  Shaukat Aziz

  Needs, World, Ships

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• 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 Bergen

  Country, Conspiracy, Theory

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• My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.

  Tino Sehgal

  Children, Father, Teens

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• I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan.

  Mian Muhammad Mansha

  Successful, India, Want

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• 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

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• When I came back from Pakistan, I wanted to take computer classes nearby. I asked my brother. I was in my home, cooking for my family, and all our relatives and guests. But I said, "I want to live my life as a woman, but I want to study." But, he told me, "Just study at home, you don't need to go out." He said, "If you go to the courses, what will our relatives say? They will lose respect for us." They told me, "We know you're feeling different, but we cannot do anything about it."

  Malina Suliman

  Brother, Home, Class

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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