Pakistan’s minorities in the armed forces do not constitute even a fraction of their population in the country – by choice and official diktat.

Top-heavy, over-paid and underworked, members of Pakistan’s Parliament are, at best, little more than a drain on the economy.

Cases of plagiarism in higher education are being discovered in universities across Pakistan.

To date no government, no army chief and no secretary has been able to come up with a plan to ‘solve’ the crisis when it comes to Siachen. Will it be any different now?

Given that Pakistan and India have only gained death and economic disaster from their respective rigid stands on the Siachen issue, one wonders what it would take for better sense to prevail.

While the cost of human lives lost at Siachen is incalculable, the cost of the Siachen adventure to Pakistan’s exchequer is also staggering.

While Pakistan’s chequered history of murder, corruption and chaos is a testament to the ago-old adage ‘let sleeping dogs lie,’ the revival of the Mehrangate case inspires a glimmer of hope that, perhaps, some skeletons will finally emerge from their closets.