Introduction / Maleeha Lodhi -- The past as present / Ayesha Jalal -- Why Jinnah matters / Akbar Ahmed -- Why Pakistan will survive / Mohsin Hamid -- Beyond the crisis state / Maleeha Lodhi -- Army and politics / Shuja Nawaz -- Praetorians and the people / Saeed Shafqat -- Ideologically adrift / Ziad Haider -- Battling militancy / Zahid Hussain -- Retooling institutions / Ishrat Husain -- An economic crisis state? / Meekal Ahmed -- Boosting competitiveness / Muddassar Mazhar Malik -- Turning energy around / Ziad Alahdad -- Education as a strategic imperative / Shanza Khan and Moeed Yusuf -- Pakistan as a nuclear state / Feroz Hassan Khan -- Reversing strategic ´shrinkage´ / Munir Akram -- The Afghan conundrum / Ahmed Rashid -- The India factor / Syed Rifaat Hussain -- Concluding note / Maleeha Lodhi.