National security odyssey

WHEN Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi recently declared that national security requires deep reforms, and ISPR publicly endorsed the call, both were arguing for the same things: coherence, coordination, service delivery pushed closer to the doorstep, a state that functions as a state should. Nothing wrong with that ambition. The problem is what it left out, and how familiar that omission is. Pakistan has set out for this destination before. Every serious reset since 1947 has restated some versi...

By none@none.com (Ali Tauqeer Sheikh)