249 Quotes About Pakistan

The average Pakistani student is brought up on a mix of dogma and mythology that does not encourage respect for facts or empiricism.

Someone has done something for us. Something that we can never forget. Something that we can't do again even for our own selves.

How do you eat your roots?

We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!

I hid myself behind Baba. It was like being in the shadow. Shadows are empty places in things. The colour of shadow is also black, which is the color of empty things. Blackboard is also black when it is empty No one can draw shadows on blackboards because shadows keep on changing. You cannot draw changing things. But it happens, you know; you draw and you look and it has changed.

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

[Taken from a BBC documentary]Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his communist parents.

Why is India so obsessed with Pakistan? I think people in India can’t sleep If they don’t talk about Pakistan. Is it really so ?

Partition tore India into three pieces. Disaster struck. There was East Pakistan, there was West Pakistan, and there was the rest of India. Millions of people were uprooted from their houses, tens of thousands massacred on both sides. It was one of the greatest mass migrations and killings in human history. People today do not realize the tremendous trauma of Partition, whose negative vibrations continue to haunt us even today.