Balochistan is burning; the flames of Baloch rebellion and TTP’s religious militancy have reached the outskirts of the provincial capital; the provincial administration’s writ is fast shrinking; KPK faces serious security challenges in many divisions adjacent to the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas, posed by the TTP; the young generation of Sindh has been pushed to the edge of a rebellious uprising by the disproportionately high rate of unemployment, and the flagrant violation of merit in recruitment for senior positions through the Sindh Public Service Commission.

The widening gaps in national harmony, given the growing controversies among the provinces over irrigation water caused by the violation of the Water Accord of 1991 by the upper riparian Punjab, the building of controversial canals and water channels, and exacerbated by the indecision of the Council of Common Interests to intervene in matters falling within its purview; the deteriorating economic situation, notwithstanding huge internal and external loans taken during the past four years; the stubbornly tenacious political polarisation; and the systematic erosion of the opposition’s role.

All this paints a gloomy picture of the security of the country. Decades of wrong policy decisions, and the violation of the constitutional scheme of governance disturbing the balance between state organs; degrading the independence of national institutions to function within their parameters; eroding the rule of law, and equality before the law, have plunged the country into a vicious cycle of complex crises, frequently jolting national politics, the economy, the federal structure, national........

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