Pakistan, May 3 -- The American author John Maxwell has nicely advised leaders, "You must be big enough to admit your mistakes, smart enough to learn from them, and strong enough to correct them". We have no leader of this calibre. Six years after the humiliating defeat of 1971, the military brass upset the applecart of the democracy; banned politics; charged the elected Prime Minister with a dubious murder crime and executed him. We groped in darkness for eleven years governed by absolutism. We fought the Western world's war in Afghanistan and were afflicted by drug and Kalashnikov cultures and political, religious and sectarian militancy.
Dear Quaid, at the end of this dark period, we had a herd of 85000 trained militants settled in our ...