Civil society must review its constitution to appeal to a wider base and incorporate masses on issues.

We need to disengage from the US at the operational and tactical level and chart our own course.

People have always held an opinion on America but never an outpouring and an outrage.

One wonders if the weight of the India-Pakistan baggage ever touches the interlocutors when they meet, as in Thimphu.

While the political and socio-economic conditions are equally precarious, there are critical disabilities in Pakistan.

Are we, who pontificate liberation, really connected to those for whom we advocate this liberty?

As a perceived collapse of the Pakistani state looms in India’s bosom, panic diplomacy takes hold.

Is being westernised liberalism? If so, do the liberals wish to colour Pakistan’s social landscape in western colours?

Ever wonder at what point a fissure grows into a rupture? Salmaan Taseer’s murder was one such occasion.

There is another great game on in the Afghan fire that must also find our equal attention.