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

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

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

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

This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.

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.