And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people from all over the world who want to engage in these activities gravitate to. They're going now to places like Syria or Yemen Libya, elsewhere.

I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

Novel writing is solitary work.

What else is belief but direction?