No, beyond a point, no friend will tell you. We have no business telling you (I include big fat idiot countries who should go home and mind their own business instead of giving themselves airs and graces). Ultimately, the decision is yours. Friends can only suggest, advise, argue, that kind of thing. When the chips are down, it is every Pakistani who loves her or his country who must decide.

For those of us who have been reading the comments on this forum, and others similar, there can be no doubt that there is enough informed and intelligent opinion about the situation for the right decisions to be taken. What those decisions are has to be finally your choice.

We can only pray for you, those of us who are of a praying disposition, or will you to win, if we are among those who will not pray. Go for it.

But cut yourselves some slack. You should have been on this side of the border when the Nav Nirman agitation under JP was in full swing. We thought the country was falling apart. It didn’t.