You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.
Salman Rushdie, Shame.
“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repression...”
“Realism can break a writer's heart.”
“A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”
“So-called Islamic 'fundamentalism' does not spring, in Pakistan, from the people. It is imposed on them from above. Autocratic regimes find it useful to espouse the rhetoric of faith, because peopl...”
“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”
“Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you...”
“Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts.”
“Now that Mohtarma Veena Malik has embraced Burqa, she should be sent to negotiate with Maulana Burqa, dare I say.”
“I want to blow your mind away, Pakistan. With love Yours destructively, TTP”
“Ball tempering is common in Cricket. Rigging is common in Elections. Whats the big deal? Najumi Sethi”