{"quotes":[{"text":"History judges a leader by results. Let my results do the talking.","author":"General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf","tags":["history","pakistan","president"],"id":1210,"author_id":"General+%28Retd%29+Pervez+Musharraf"},{"text":"I want to blow your mind away, Pakistan. With love Yours destructively, TTP.","author":"@SaroorIjaz","tags":["pakistan","satire"],"id":5349,"author_id":"%40SaroorIjaz"},{"text":"You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.","author":"Muhammad Ali Jinnah","tags":["ali","corruption","development","discipline","education","equality","faith","guard","harmony","islam","jinnah","justice","leader","life","love","maintenance","manhood","morals","muhammad","native","pakistan","peace","power","social","society","soil","stand","system","thinking","unity","values"],"id":15511,"author_id":"Muhammad+Ali+Jinnah"},{"text":"Balochistan was refused legitimacy for its nationhood with the creation of Pakistan due to the geographical location and the rich natural resources. The story would have been completely different if this has been a barren land.","author":"Nilantha Ilangamuwa","tags":["balochistan","pakistan","political"],"id":45286,"author_id":"Nilantha+Ilangamuwa"},{"text":"We are humans, they say we are mortals. Though we do live once but can last forever.","author":"M.H. Rakib","tags":["14august","forever","humans","martyrs","mortals","pakistan"],"id":48642,"author_id":"M.H.+Rakib"},{"text":"No global corruption scandal can be complete without mentioning Pakistani politicians.","author":"Arzak Khan","tags":["corruption","pakistan","politicans","scandals"],"id":57595,"author_id":"Arzak+Khan"},{"text":"If I considered the Partition an archeological site, and the many experiences of those who witnessed it as the site’s structural sedimentation, then the deeper I excavated, the more I found, and that too in innumerable renditions.","author":"Aanchal Malhotra","tags":["archeology","history","india","memory","pakistan","partition-1947"],"id":68264,"author_id":"Aanchal+Malhotra"},{"text":"If the war had a noble purpose, it was this - to end the inhumanity those photographs showed. While India rarely spoke about its imperative as the moral one, and few people steeped in realpolitik can shed their cynicism when a politician speaks in moral terms, and the intervention certainly suited India's strategic interests, the fact remains that in the annals of humanitarian interventions, few were as swift, successful, purpose-driven and with humanitarian goals as the Indian intervention to liberate Bangladesh. India went in when it was attacked, and left before its troops became unpopular.","author":"Salil Tripathi","tags":["1971","bangladesh","india","pakistan","war"],"id":68707,"author_id":"Salil+Tripathi"},{"text":"I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men who do not welcome girl-babies will not treasure me as I grow to woman - though he call me princess just because the Guru told him to.I have come so far, I have borne so much pain and emptiness!But men have not yet changed.","author":"Shauna Singh Baldwin","tags":["historical-fiction","india","pakistan","sikh","south-asian-literature","womens-fiction"],"id":72923,"author_id":"Shauna+Singh+Baldwin"},{"text":"If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.","author":"Kamila Shamsie","tags":["friendship","government","humour","karachi","pakistan"],"id":82828,"author_id":"Kamila+Shamsie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":78,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}