Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.
The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.
The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.
The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?
Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.
It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.
The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.
I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe.
I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.
The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.
I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.
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.
The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.
