"The Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province had been through a brutal process of ethnic cleansing."

"Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setti…"

"I loved Lahore. By the time I was at secondary school we had moved from Race Course Road to our own apartments in a l…"

"And then the burnt houses. How were they burned? I would ask the locals. Back would come a casual reply. 'They belong…"

"Nonetheless Russell had intuitively grasped that the first two decades of Islam had a distinctly Jacobin feel. I thin…"

"The reality of women in Islam is a prefabricated destiny."

"Soldiers were incited to mass-rape the women in order to mutate the Hindu Bengali gene. This is what was said by Punj…"

"I wrote and spoke and appealed for support, but the West remained silent. Nixon had ordered Kissinger (or perhaps it …"

"This single event had alienated me totally from the 'new' Pakistan. In the past one had fought against the elite, but…"

"Stupidity knows no bounds, especially when fuelled by narcissism and a tongue laced with demagogy. There is no other …"