The entire nation, whatever little support it had for the Taliban, has now completely turned against the despicable terrorists who kill and maim fellow country men, women and innocent children, without discrimination. The issues of drone attacks in Waziristan and PTI's anti-American rhetoric, in the lives of common citizens, are of little relevance or importance.

For the common Pakistanis, rampant corruption, collapsing national economy, erosion in the value of the rupee, spiraling cost of living, excruciating struggle to survive, unemployment, denial of quality education, non-availability of basic necessities, such as clean water, electricity, gas, healthcare, a dysfunctional judicial system, absence of writ of the state, deteriorating law and order situation, targeted and sectarian killings, mis-governance and mismanagement of the affairs of the state, are far more important and grave issues which need to be urgently addressed on war-footings, than the abstract and untenable "3D" abstract rant of PTI.

In contrast to PTI's untenable "3D" agenda, PML-N has come up with its imaginative and doable "3Es" based thrust for putting the country on path to recovery. PML-N's '3Es' are: (1) economy; (2) energy; and (3) education, are much closer to heart of an average Pakistani than PTI's intangible and irrelevant 3D hoarse sloganeering.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2012