Maryam wrote many books extolling Islam as a faith and condemning the West as a way of life.

Flexible foreign policy favours a normal state. But if you have ideology driving policy, then ‘fixity’ becomes a flaw.

The Pakistani military is in some ways an admirable institution, but it is obsessed with India and Kashmir.

An Islamic state nurtures a conservative society to ensure its survival and keep its central dogma from being altered.

Violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty includes foreign elements which the army and government continues to ignore.

Nothing kills internal asabiya like codependency through external open trade and investment.

Bangladesh and Pakistan muddle along on a similar path even after separating.

Benazir named the persons she thought would conspire to kill her including Hameed Gul and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.

Asean will no longer be prickly with sovereignty issues; it will focus on common trade policy.

This amnesia about war creates the ‘internal’ peace that philosophers used to talk about.