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

The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.

Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

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.

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step