As Pakistan enters its diamond jubilee year, it must debate how to make its democracy work for the people. For if it serves the people, it will serve the country. Pakistan needs a structural overhaul.
Syed Anwar Mehmood, who as Secretary Information with President Musharraf, was instrumental in shaping national laws to enable a free media, remembers those days and wonders what went wrong: Why has the media shunned all responsibility to become traders of chaos selling whatever sells?