Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

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.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.

The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'. 'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.

So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically.