P.M.Ashraf Quotes

Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.

We live in an interconnected world, and you cannot prevent people from leaving. What you need to do is to create opportunities. At the same time, people are also coming back.

When windows shatter through a bomb, we will repair it next week because we are Afghans. That's the spirit.

We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.

The job of an elected president is to overcome the past and change the playing field.

Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

It [terrorism] happened because intelligence, leadership and police failures made it possible.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

Terrorism attacks peoples' trust in the system of their state. There is protection, but only if there is collective action and collective understanding about how to really deal with this phenomenon.

The national unity government is a necessity in this country and I am happy to serve it. We have negotiated for months to create a government, but Belgium also went for a year without one.

People are easily shocked when their routine is disrupted and their ease of travel is restricted. We are dealing with a complete new face of terrorism - killing for the sake of killing.

The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs.

The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.

I'm not taking power. I'm catalyzing systemic change.

Women are part of the constitution.

Salaries are a huge area of corruption.

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.

The economy is the silent elephant in the room.

maybe someday, you will look back and smile because it was all worth it

People, there's no such thing as, THE BEST CAMERA BRAND, but yes there will always be THE BEST CAMERA AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Technology will change, but not art.

Don't talk much and save your dignity.

Roaming is the easiest part, just wandering around, looking the places, imagining how people lived there at that time, breathing deeply the open air around there and feeling the best.

I felt alone, my loneliness suffocated me, and I craved to scream, shout and kill me while seeing all this. However, self-hatred also occupied me.

I had lived a life, I had dreamt of, but I have lost a loved one.” Ashwin

The world is now being dominated by few Giant organizations that influence and dectate our consuming behavior.

Silence is a girls loudest cry

No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree. It will do you no best, until a shingle you free.

Play With WORDS

I suffered, I learned, I changed

Love is everything a person desires for in his life, but love is not in getting love, but giving the most love you have to others

Don’t fall in love, it is dangerous, fall for friendship and you will find everything” Ashwin

We are born, we get names, we get educated, we get values, we get job and money. But all this is not life, life is love found in friendship, friendship found in love and in love, sacrifice.” Vijay