Ali Fehmi

“There is robust debate in American society over the extent to which the US lives up to its goals, but no one considers such debate as a threat to America’s current existence. The evolution of America from a slave-owning society that limited franchise only to white men of European origin to a diverse, multi-ethnic nation is a result of argument and deliberation.”
― 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

“A narrative of persecution also runs through the psyche of Pakistan as a whole,’ he wrote. ‘The public, whipped up by the military and mullahs, is led to believe that the nation’s problems are the work of “hidden hands”. I noticed how often leaders blamed conspiracies by India, Israel and America—that is to say, Hindus, Jews and Christians—for undermining the country, rather than owning up to social and economic ills of Pakistan’s own creation.’8”
― Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

“But you must indulge your Manto bhai. Memories, my brothers, so many memories, they just drag me back to the past as I talk. I cannot resist them. If I could have, I wouldn’t have had to die like a stray dog in Pakistan.”
― Rabisankar Bal, Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell