Believe me, I am not a prophet of doom or gloom. But it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that our country is in grave peril. If my memory serves me right my country was not like this. We never had fear of any suicide bomber, any angry mob crushing us to death or even general breakdown of law and order on the national scale. It was the Pakistan we grew up in. Women could drive from one city to another without being robbed or assaulted. Children could still watch what little entertainment PTV or video tapes could offer without being reminded of the V word better known to us as violence. But things surely have changed for the worse. More >