Pakistan, a nation created as the first home for the British-India Muslims almost six decades ago today represents one of the world’s most troubling states on the brink of an economic catastrophe. Record levels of unemployment, unprecedented inflation rates, ever increasing fiscal deficit and looming energy crises; are just a few of the vices which have crippled my country at a macro level. Having nearly averted a balance of payments crisis back in 2008, with help from the International Monetary Fund, my country is once again headed on a path of self annihilation. Despite being rich in natural resources and self sufficient in food production, Pakistan’s economic infrastructure is falling apart day by day. One is forced to ponder; but why? What makes us fail where others have succeed, what makes us weak while other grow strong, but more importantly, how do we make things right.