Unless regulatory frameworks improve, creating large bureaucracies to deal with rising challenges will keep failing.

Corruption feeds into loop of poverty, increasing social distributive injustice, making it difficult for poor to rise.

Hegemonic postures tend to not only give global orientation, but will also intentionally diffuse context of enemy.

In modern warfare, numbers may not count as much as they did, which is just as frightening as prospect of all-out war.

Since terrorism is not predictable in any scenario, responses cannot be programmed into a national security strategy.

Anti-terror strategies would require consultations from gatekeepers to make them more representative nationally.

Pakistan is close to the bottom among 87 developing countries in spending money on education.

People subconsciously bonded in psychosocial group born of resentment, hostility get attracted to extremist movements.

We need to think rationally about problems facing us today, without indulging in emotionality which overshadows logic.

Cultural, societal nuances condition the average Pakistani to live within the paradigms of the Pakistani society.