The defendant didn't take the proper action in his jurisdiction to prevent the incidents or take into custody the perpetrators for investigation.

We want to put pressure on government in parliament and in the street.

There's nothing here for us anymore, so we won't come back. We'll settle anywhere else in Pakistan that the government can arrange.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory. I might mention novels by Nabokov and Calvino and Tolkien on one occasion, by Fitzgerald and Baldwin and E.B. White on another. Camus often features, as do Tolstoy, Borges, Morrison and Manto.