A paradigm shift in strategy is needed with focus on the region’s abundant resource — its growing young population

Improving the quality and reach of education, therefore, needs a combination of policy initiatives

Islamabad and Kabul should establish a development authority for rapid social transformation of the tribal people

Durable peace only returns once the grievances that supported the rebels are fully addressed

Sustained development is the only way of dealing with insurgencies that draw their strength from widespread discontent

Middle class will remain politically restive as long as they don’t find a home in the economic, political systems

There is a light at the end of tunnel and some lifting of the darkness that has enveloped the country for many years

Like the Arabs, and the Turks, the Pakistani youth also wanted a system of governance that accommodated them

Policymakers must understand how the global production system has changed and will continue to chang

Those who have acted against the West — the state and the people — cannot be said to be behaving as good Muslims.