Mohsin Hamid is far from my favourite writer – not keen on his books or his writing, not keen on his shtick, and a conversation with him some years ago was memorably infuriating. But I thought this, in today’s FT, was quietly well-phrased:
I am not a military expert. But I am familiar with what it is like to live in a country run by military experts. In Pakistan the population has long been told that India is the greatest challenge Pakistan faces. Not illiteracy, not militancy, not climate change, not poverty, not healthcare, but India. India is no doubt a dangerous neighbour to Pakistan. (And Pakistan is to India, as well.) But I nonetheless wish Pakistan had chosen its priorities differently.