Pakistan, Feb. 28 -- Next month when the thirteenth president of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi completes his term, he will leave behind a legacy riddled with spats, controversies and an uncanny realisation that his office was not in the best shape to bear some, if not all, of its burdens.

The latest of this has been an obvious reluctance to summon the session of the National Assembly, due to which he continues to draw flak from political parties. Amid speculations about his decision relying on the fate of the reserved seats notification for the Sunni Ittehad Council and a raging war of words, the people continue to clutch at straws as they seek clarity.

Quite expectedly, they wished for the much-awaited round of general elections, that too, aft...