What the nation lacks
by Dr Niloufer Mahdi : Was ever there a nation so afflicted as ours with rulers whose rodential propensities constitute their existential definition? Our sins as a nation must surely reek to the heavens to call down upon us the condign retribution of having rulers who witness this state imploding under its internal burdens, the possible comminution of our territory and the egregious violation of our sovereignty. Yet, our rulers and our government are singularly incapable of slowing or halting our precipitous declivity. Any concerned citizen, with two grey cells, must fear the fast approaching time, when the ingravescence of inimical developments reaches such a state from which we will be unable to save ourselves as a nation. And let us not shelter under undue optimism or illusion: remember East Pakistan? Several months ago, in these columns, this writer challenged the reader to identify any party leader, decision-maker or ruler who was even vaguely endowed with the wherewithal to av...