To Pakistan? Or Afghanistan? Or Wherever-the-fuck-istan?

I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother

— Hamid Karzai

Travel from what is called Pakistan to Afghanistan has been made increasingly difficult and people are often labelled terrorists, even those who might be…

— Noam Chomsky

“Egyptian mujahideen had a rich experience in Afghanistan. Thousands of young Egyptian men lived in Al-Sindh and the Punjab regions, and among populations that…

— Tarek Osman

We invaded Afghanistan to find bin Laden. We found him in Pakistan, and we're still in Afghanistan. We need better GPS.

— Andy Borowitz

“We Pashtuns are split between Pakistan and Afghanistan and don’t really recognize the border that the British drew more than 100 years ago.”

— Malala Yousafzai

Pakistan and Afghanistan are not mere neighbours, we are more than that, we are connected by Muslim bond of brotherhood.

— Ashraf Ghani

Hasn't the U.S. Army gone in and uprooted the training camps situated in the tribal areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan? If the U.S. can…

— Simi Garewal

We need to deal with the problem of al Qaeda, make sure that they can't have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and guarantee that we…

— Rahm Emanuel

The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical…

— Pete Hoekstra

After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering with the…

— Adel al-Jubeir

What is common among all of these groups [Taliban, Islamic State etc.] is the intent to destroy. The majority of terrorists who come to…

— Ashraf Ghani

Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria,…

— Najibullah Quraishi

There [in Afghanistan] is also a growing insurgency threat from al-Qaida, the Taliban and other extremist elements, some of which comes from the tribal…

— David Petraeus

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan,…

— Rick Perry