talk of establishing a strong and modern state is like saying that
   Congo, Afghanistan, Haiti or Sierra Leone in their current condition of
   statelessness can send an astronaut to the moon. I hold no grudge
   against these countries but in the real world in which we live these
   countries are bitter expressions of statelessness — something that we
   in Pakistan don’t wish for ourselves. Yet politics in this country
   never stops to invest in our statelessness. Why?

   Even if there was a central authority to prevent statelessness from
   happening our enemies are making sure that even this authority is made
   controversial and in a politically created, free-for-all environment