Negotiations will not produce a counter-insurgency policy in the long term, but it will bring relief in the short term

Islamic world has seen many monarchies & military dictators utilising device of elitist political Islamism for ruling.

Pakistan's regulatory systems are weak, legislation is passed but not implemented, public officials are generalists.

Stringent laws will be wasted unless standards of institutionalising such laws are improved.

Radicalisation is one way the poor and dispossessed find voice as it demands action to challenge the status quo.