Every day you face battles—that is the reality for all creatures in their struggle to survive. But the greatest battle of all is with yourself—your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end.
In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them—those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can never focus enough to learn.
Without enemies around us, we grow lazy.
An enemy at our heels sharpens our wits, keeping us focused and alert.
It is sometimes better, then, to use enemies as enemies rather than transforming them into friends or allies.
Power is essentially amoral and one of the most important skills to acquire is the ability to see circumstances rather than good or evil.
Power is a game—this cannot be repeated too often—and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effect of their actions.
Refusal to Passport by Afghans defies logic of relations between two sovereign states, says special envoy @AsifDurrani20 during @CRSSpak's #BeyondBoundaries Pak-Afghan Stakeholders Dialogue.
#Pakistan’s Special Representative on #Afghanistan Ambassador @AsifDurrani20 advocated the necessity of implementing #biometric measures for the cross-border movement of people to bolster security and minimise threats from non-state actors.
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"Bilateral trade & transit b/w #Pakistan#Afghanistan should transcend politics. Segregating trade from politics is imperative for #PakAfghan stability & regional connectivity, " says Senator @Mushahid@ImtiazGul60
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PTI had the entire heft of state machinery pitted against it, yet came out roaring. Twist of irony for the powers that be. Indication that democracy is alive and kicking with voters registering their anger via the ballot box 1/n
Lt Gen (R) Asif Yasin Malik underscores the need to develop dedicated academic expertise in the #MiddleEast to organically understand & help address the complexities of such crises.
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