Nobody knows what will happen in Pakistan, but I feel as if I've been granted a vision of how the world will end, not with a bang but with an apocalypse of traffic.
One evening at the end of January, I visited the mosque with Paul Wolfowitz, the president of the World Bank, and a half dozen of his aides and colleagues.
The country was born out of struggle - the struggle to maintain some kind of territorial integrity at the end of World War I as the Allies decided to carve up Anatolia and walk away with it themselves.