Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter -… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In some contexts in Pakistan maybe a beard is negative. It depends. And in some contexts in America maybe a beard is… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It's not that, living in Pakistan, I feel an enormous constraint on how I can write and what I can say; rather,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“So what's Pakistan like?" she asked. I told her Pakistan was many things, from seaside to desert to farmland stretched between rivers… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Living in a place like Pakistan, very often you meet people who are migrating abroad. And sometimes you'll ask their parents, you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The animosity between India and Pakistan is deeply unfortunate and dangerous, and it's something I've long campaigned to reduce. But right now,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I walk in the direction she tells me. I feel my pores opening, sweat and heat radiating out of my body. A… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“[...] I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me -… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Often, during my stay in your country, such comparisons troubled me. In fact, they did more than trouble me: they made me resentful. Four… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
