By Ahmad Faruqui
As Pakistan completes its first sixty years, it is natural to ask whether the next sixty would look any different. Given the difficulties of even forecasting the future six months out, how can we define the nationÂ’s long-term future?
Paradoxically, it is often easier to talk about the long-term than about the near-term. When Winston Churchill quipped, “The future, though imminent, is obscure”, he was referring to the near term. Over the long haul, he knew the curtain had fallen on the British Raj. |