Pakistan, Sept. 14 -- Karachi our metropolitan city drowned in rain and our efforts to rebuild it are marred in politics. The popular debate these days is: "Who will contribute how much and who will take the credit for its rebuilding?" Drowning in rain was unfortunate for Karachi but getting drowned now in politics that fails to deliver is worse. All this forces me to ask this question - what is our sense of future? Why can't this nation and its politics do away with mediocre, self-serving sub-nationalists who cannot see beyond their noses?

The world is moving in fast lane identifying and adapting new technological, demographical, geopolitical, cultural, and military and academic tendencies and we are still debating how to clean our citi...