India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.

It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

[ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is not a very balanced man. When he talks, you never understand what he means. What does he mean this time? That he wants to be friends with us? We've wanted to be friends with him for some time; I've always wanted to.

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.