The secularists cannot agree on anything, divided along egotistical and ideological lines.

The country as a whole suffers since the city has a vital position in Pakistan’s economy.

Without effective local governments, NDMA, dyke repairs, natural disasters cannot be adequately handled.

The enemy is somewhere within, deep into the Pakistani psyche which inherits an ‘invasion-threat’ to land and God.

Our collective habit of finding bogeys and imagining enemies has turned into a deep psychosis.

The ruling PPP has surrendered the foreign and security policies to the GHQ, seemingly just to survive in power.

Perhaps ‘operation brainwashing’ has succeeded at many levels.

Osama bin Laden has been ‘eliminated’ through a well-executed, covert operation.

This is time for reflection, policy debate and untiring advocacy.

Pakistani textbooks have preached falsehoods, hatred and bigotry.