How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.

Her mind is a haunted house.

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

History is the third parent.