Jago Pakistan / Wake Up, Pakistan

No country has made the transition from a low income developing status to a developed country status without a significant reduction in the population growth rate.

It is difficult to conceive of any example of a more costly national strategic failure than Pakistan’s failed romance with violent extremists as instruments of public policy.

If there is anything unique about Pakistan’s relationship with Islam, it is that the state has systematically employed extremism as a tool of public policy both in the domestic and the foreign realm. This systematic use of extremism to mollify one constituency, motivate another, and scare yet another has endured across governments and leaders and, one could reasonably argue, across both military dictatorships and civilian democracies.