Ali Fehmi

“the ideology of Pakistan that has been fostered in the past seventy years has had two major consequences. First, it opened the door for endless debates and schisms around Islam that prevent discussion of more pressing and practical governance issues; second, it conflated an Islamic Pakistani nationalism with anti-Indianism, putting Pakistan in foreign and national security policy straitjacket.”
― Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

“Has anyone ever been able to prevent the dead from talking to one another?”
― Rabisankar Bal, Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell

“Many of Pakistan’s problems—from falling behind in secular education to the rise of Islamist extremism—can be traced to the country’s founding on the basis of religious nationalism.”
― Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

“don’t believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect—” “—intended us to forgo their use?”
― Dan Brown, Origin