It is a shame that middle class and the educated stay away from politics. In other democracies, these are the engines of politics. In western countries, people expect high standards from politicians. Axiomatically, we expect of our politicians that we would not expect of ourselves. Why do we abdicate the great responsibility of caring about our politics? Citizenship starts with you. People used to think that politics was for somebody else. But, in reaction to what happened in Mumbai, people are realising that it matters. Educated youth should enter Politics and not shy away.

The way forward: We can work with the US and other western countries. There is no limit to what the US can demand and get. We have to convey to Pakistan that none of us will tolerate this any more. We don't have to tell this to Pakistan's ineffective President or Prime Minister, but to its military. Either they crack down on these groups or the funding support will dry up. We want a genuine crackdown on these camps, failing which, it will affect the peace process.

Lets continue our PR in whatever capacity we can while we adapt to the brave new workl.

We can be number 1 in security as well, intelligencegathering etc. If we can do it in Cricket, beauty queens, Chess, IT etc why not ??