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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.

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

My heritage is Pakistani, and I have loads of Pakistani fans on social media who I would love to connect with.

I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and I believe it personally.

You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war.

Sadly, Indians are not very easily accepted in Pakistan, and that has a lot to do with the governments.

Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.