To criticize Pakistan’s leaders, however - much though they deserve it – is to miss the point. It is ordinary people, locked in a series of personal Pakistans, who seem unable or unwilling to unite over the threat of their nation. Pakistanis will point to the oppressive hand of history or the machinations of foreign nations to explain their decent into chaos, and to a certain extent both have played a role. But no one bears more responsibility for a slow collective suicide than Pakistanis themselves.

Aryn Baker, May 25, 2009 Issue, Time Magazine

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Tags: June 2009, Pakistan, Personal Broadcast, Politics, Time Magazine