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Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.
Mohsin Hamid
State
Tyrannical
Shadow
Up
Growing
Lived
Pakistan
Growing Up
I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and I believe it personally.
Mohsin Hamid
Example
Believe
Other
Representative
Just
Different
Fiction
Personally
Each
Pakistan
Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.
Mohsin Hamid
Sad
Future
Sometimes
Matter
Will
Country
Birth
Steady
Like
Looked
Friends
Itself
Wondered
Whether
Decline
Many
Pakistan
Pakistani
It's not that, living in Pakistan, I feel an enormous constraint on how I can write and what I can say; rather, I recognize that one has to navigate these things... Am I aware of things that one could say that would be risky or that could be dangerous? Certainly I'm aware of those things.
Mohsin Hamid
Dangerous
Living
Enormous
Say
Those
Recognize
Would
Would-Be
Constraint
Rather
Risky
Could
Write
Feel
How
Am
Certainly
Navigate
Pakistan
Aware
Things
When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.
Mohsin Hamid
Everyone
Mindset
Kind
Puritanical
Know
Forces
How
Oppressive
Up
Just
Against
Growing
Pakistan
Growing Up
Anti-U.S. sentiment has been born out of many grievances - support and weapons for such dictators as Mubarak, unquestionable support for Israel in its occupation of Palestine, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen that kill more civilians than intended targets.
Mona Eltahawy
Sentiment
Out
Has-Been
Weapons
Born
Civilians
More
Attacks
Support
Occupation
Israel
Been
Iraq
Yemen
Targets
Dictators
Than
Intended
Afghanistan
Mubarak
Wars
Many
Pakistan
Palestine
I am from Chicago, but my dad is from Karachi, Pakistan, and my mom is from New Delhi, India. So, I've got a little Paki-Indie fusion going on here.
Mustafa Ali
Mom
Fusion
India
Delhi
New
Got
Am
Chicago
Going
Little
Dad
Pakistan
Here
Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.
Narendra Modi
Terrorism
Peace
Free
Thrive
Only
Remain
Open
Environment
Outstanding
Climate
Dialogue
Issues
Bilateral
Pakistan
Right
Violence
With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there.
Nargis Fakhri
Travel
Opportunities
Would
Look
Blood
Being
Certainly
Pakistan
Nobody can send me to Pakistan. India is my country, and I love my country. Five generations of my family have lived and died on this land, and even my children will live in this country because this is my homeland.
Naseeruddin Shah
Love
Family
Me
Will
Country
Live
India
Generations
Nobody
Because
Five
Send
Died
Children
Land
Even
Homeland
Lived
Pakistan
Pakistan is a very emotional, cricket-loving nation and what Pakistan need is a street-fighter-type in charge of the team.
Nasser Hussain
Nation
Charge
Emotional
Very
Team
Pakistan
Need
Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
P. Chidambaram
War
Diplomacy
State
Could
Supports
Answer
Rogue
While
Hard
Pakistan
Elements
Coercive
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
Pankaj Mishra
Politics
Humiliation
Later
Define
India
Seems
Counterparts
Empire
French
Partition
Passed
Still
Quickly
Than
Decades
Dutch
Vicious
Less
Pakistan
British
British Empire
Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
Pankaj Mishra
Nationalism
India
Minorities
Some
Ethnic
Many
Rebelled
Pakistan
I feel proud every time I recall the valour and courage of our army men in the war against Pakistan.
Parineeti Chopra
War
Time
Army
Courage
Men
Every
Every Time
Our
Valour
Feel
Proud
Against
Pakistan
Recall
Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
Pervez Musharraf
Lost
Doubt
Society
Our
No Doubt
Dead
Greater
Because
Said
Pillars
Loss
Families
Inflicted
Who
Pakistan
Suffered
The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.
Pete Hoekstra
Radical
Diminished
Border
Threat
Terrorists
Afghanistan
Region
Capabilities
Might
Whole
Pakistan
Al-Qaeda
Sanctions on Pakistan have been part of the troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship in the past and should not be considered as an option in the future.
Peter Bergen
Future
Relationship
Past
Considered
Troubled
Part
Been
Option
In The Past
Sanctions
Should
Pakistan
There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.
Peter MacKay
Today
World
Dangerous
Country
More
Than
Pakistan
In 1971, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi defeated Pakistan, and our leader, A. B. Vajpayee, who was in the Opposition, praised her, and she was credited with the military victory, similarly, why can't Prime Minister Narendra Modi be credited for the Balakot air strike?
Rajnath Singh
Victory
Leader
Military
Our
Air
Strike
Minister
Similarly
Prime
Prime Minister
She
Praised
Opposition
Gandhi
Who
Pakistan
Why
Her
Credited
Defeated
Pakistan and its associates find it difficult to understand that there are no 'good terrorists and bad terrorists.'
Rajnath Singh
Good
Difficult
Bad
Find
Understand
Terrorists
Pakistan
Associates
It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Strong
Censorship
Skin
Fighting
Online
Takes
Female
Stomach
Activist
Pakistan
Thick
Thick Skin
Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken more seriously by government functionaries than are appeals by human rights groups.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Government
Business
Rights
Seriously
Negative
Community
Human Rights
Prominent
Members
More
Taken
Global
Than
Human
Business Community
Views
Appeals
Groups
Expressed
Pakistan
What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.
Richard Engel
Try
Algeria
Obama
Religious
Seems
Hot
Countries
Doctrine
Dry
Disengagement
Poor
Poor Countries
Ignore
Pakistan
Bhutto's regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan's history, and her government did not allow the media freedoms she criticizes Musharraf for crushing.
Richard Engel
Government
History
Rights
Human Rights
Worst
Criticizes
Having
Records
Allow
Remembered
Freedoms
Crushing
She
Did
Human
Regime
Media
Pakistan
Her
The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.
Rick Perry
People
Country
National
Cross
Absolute
Countries
Ties
Yemen
Very
Close
Disgrace
Afghanistan
Whether
China
Who
Pakistan
Al
Al-Qaeda
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