It is for us to exercise our independence from big-power enslavement

Pakistan seemed to have reached a dead-end of multiple manifestations

We are now among the world’s ten most indebted nations and our external debt exceeds the gross national income

Pakistan’s Afghan problem including the TTP will continue to haunt medium to long term stability

Extremist thought to the point of exclusion of the other is the first step to its ultimate form of violent terrorism

A policy guy who is also a doer is an ideal mix and perhaps the missing link in our existing scheme

The state must be engaged, present and involved in how the unease among the people can be alleviated

To ensure stability we need to strengthen the process and let it be played out in its truest spirit, EVM or no EVM

Saving six metaphorically remains paramount in a state of desperation with a little help

Time to separate ISI from civilian ambit; return it to its primary purpose of an inter-Services military institution