In fact the likely political cost deterred us from even a staff or an in-house review. Sindh is as much a national security problem as a political one. Unfortunately the political gimmickry prevented a comprehensive approach. Last year's army action won for us the deserts of Sindh, but the gains were lost in the quagmire of federal politics. Pakistan's core security interests have been taken to ransom by our political delinquents.
Opportunities are floundered and policy responses remain inadequate.
We may have to give more time for the democratic dispensation to deliver, but the world around us is moving at a pace, that if we are not 'on' then we are 'out'. Vehicles or aircrafts used for training have dual controls to enable the instructor to avert a crash. But there could be no objection to a mechanism that prevented disasters. A system can work only as efficiently as its environments would permit, and that we have already concluded would take some more time to happen. Such institutional improvements can only follow the political process and not precede it.