Afghanistan Quote by Manmohan Singh

Obviously Pakistan and the U.S. are very different countries, but we have common geopolitical interests in preventing communist take over in Afghanistan and hence,…

— Samuel P. Huntington

It is in Pakistan's own interest that the Afghan army is able to fight effectively against the Taliban, which is more likely if they…

— Peter Bergen

There is Pakistan's relationship with Afghanistan which will also be a very tricky issue in the coming years. Then there is a large part…

— Noam Chomsky

I sincerely hope that whatever influence the United States has in Pakistan, it will convince Pakistan that using terrorism as an instrument of state…

— Manmohan Singh

It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and…

— Mohsin Hamid

“The USA and Unocal were essentially faced with a simple question in Afghanistan. Was it preferable to rely on Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to…

— Ahmed Rashid

In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban leadership was…

— Chris Alexander

Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client…

— Salman Rushdie

The ongoing war in Afghanistan is being imposed on us, and Afghans are being sacrificed in it for someone else's interests. We are not…

— Hamid Karzai

Everyone in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a potential target. My heart goes out to the UN family in Afghanistan: in spite of everything, they…

— Chris Alexander

Pakistan are very keen to carry out the operations themselves. And there's significant effort on the part of the US and other countries to…

— David Petraeus

Al Qaeda has no place in Pakistan. It's a threat to Pakistan. And there should be a convergence of interests between the Pakistani state…

— David Miliband