"The January-4/6 SAARC Summit is-thus-the best forum to avert all types of risks to the regional peace-if held-with a straight-thinking agenda, backed by a realistic mindset."

"The United States today is a country where, because of the widespread collapse of education and the debasement of television and press, huge numbers of people will believe anything, and huge numbers of people at the top are prepared to tell them anything, or even believe in themselves."

"There is ample evidence that the US’s main aim is to secure and plunder Iraq’s economic resources; see for example, the speed with which the US moved to privatise the Iraqi economy, just weeks into the occupation, allowing 100 percent foreign ownership of almost all industry and the removal of profits from the country."

"Nowhere else in a post-colonial Third World is the psychological and intellectual legacy of colonial domination as manifestly alive or as compelling as it is in today's Arab region."

"Canada is turning into another Colombia, where defence lawyers either disappear or are killed. He could add Egypt, Tunisia and a number of other pro-Western countries to the list as well."

"Human difference, the incomplete human project, will be asserted against the indifference of the real world where all echoes are the same. What matters is not the consequence of one's absence, but the need for consequence; it is that need that makes us what we are."

"With Iraq and Afghanistan fallen and Libya and Iran kneeling down on the nuclear issue, Pakistan will in fact be facing hard times in weeks and months—to come."

"Words that George Will wrote 10 years ago now aptly describe his own stance: “It is a theoretical impossibility” that he behaved badly. “Good behavior” is whatever he does."