The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
Mohsin Hamidthink that the external situation has also changed somewhat. The reduction of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has, in a sense, reduced how inflamed the situation on the Pakistani border regions was and is.
Mohsin HamidI take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
Mohsin HamidLike many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.
Mohsin Hamid