Pakistan should have never agreed to talk to the TTP (A Monumental Folly, by this scribe, The Nation, 23 September 2013). If it continues in the same spirit, it will cause the entire political system to implode, collapse on itself and take the nation down with it. A well-considered “whole-of-the-nation” plan of action would have by now been made and put into action. The energies, faculties, capabilities, capacities, and resources of the entire nation would have converged to save, secure and rehabilitate the over 33 million of our brethren who have been devastated by these floods. He would have made certain that the nation emerged stronger, more unified and self-confident from this ordeal than ever before.

Source: The Nation September 17, 2022 02:28 UTC