Category: Naya Daur

If you were exhausted by hearing retired military officers pontificate about critical matters of foreign relations and national security, just watch retired diplomats speak of matters way above their pay checks.

Ayesha Siddiqa argues that a cry for accountability, while being important, ultimately ends in a dead-end street. In Pakistan’s case, slogan for accountability comes to nothing because the state has little capacity and breathing space to fight critical mafias or ruling groups as the latter have power to starve the state.