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

History is the third parent.

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.

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.

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.

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

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