Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.