Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.

There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.

In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.