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.

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

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

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.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.