Pakistan India Relations Quotes

It has become increasingly clear that Pakistan’s chief aim in aligning with the West was to gain support against India

We used to fight with Pakistan with bombs. Now we are fighting with them on the playing ground.

If Pakistan feels Indian positions are pre-conditions, then there will be no talks.

I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

India and Pakistan should fight only in the field of economy.

My vision is to work for the relationship between India and Pakistan which would be like the relation between Canada and the United States.

Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

I would especially like to appeal to my country's media that we should stop looking at everything in India from the prism of Pakistan. India is an independent country. It is a country of 125 crore people. Whenever it approaches any country, it will only be concerned about its own interests. It has been our biggest shortcoming and mistake that we have been tagging ourselves with another country and trying to do things.