Pakistan has perfected an art the civilised world hasn't yet mastered: resolving crises without confronting them. While it admirably plays mediator to global conflicts, it reserves a different strategy for domestic ones - not resolution, but redefinition. Problems are not solved; they are reframed until they cease to appear as problems on paper. Success metrics are not achieved; they are revised until achievement becomes inevitable. The goalpost, in short, is never fixed - and a moving goalpost, by design, is never missed.

For 78 years, succeeding governments have promised to address the issues afflicting the masses - yet the issues have only aggravated and multiplied. This doesn't always suggest their incompetence or unwillingness, but rather their mandated efficiency. Since the preceding regimes didn't succeed in arresting, let alone addressing, the issues facing the people, the incumbent has shouldered the role with utmost commitment. However, it feels the need for its empowerment by doing........

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