The Pakistan of Allah-Army-America has failed. Imran Khan, the self-styled messiah, has left it in a deeper mess. Over to the pragmatic Mian now – Nawaz Sharif may well be its last hope.

Atal Bihar Vajpayee's foreign minister spotted a line in one of the ‘for your eyes only’ dispatches from Riyadh, that had then Saudi Crown Prince Abdulla bin Abdulaziz Al Saud asking, “Why has India forgotten us...”