Sajjad Noor

“you can't fight with who you are”
― sajjad ali noor

“If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters - the Adivasis and the Dalits. And in the meantime, the zamindars are laying the oil pipelines and selling both parties weapons.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations With Arundhati Roy

“Why have the English remained to English? Throughout India's history conquerors have come from elsewhere, and all of them --- Turk, Arab, Hun, Mongol, Persian --- have become Indian. If --- when ---this Pakistan happens, those Muslims who leave Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad to go there, They will be leaving their homes. But when the English leave, they'll be going home.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“The alliance between the mosque and the military in Pakistan was forged over time, and its character has changed with the twists and turns of Pakistani history.”
― Husain Haqqani, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military