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Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

The diagnosis that poverty, lack of education, or lack of opportunities have much to do with terrorism requires a fundamentally optimistic view of human nature. This diagnosis leads to the prognosis that all we need to do to solve the terrorism problem is to create societies that are less poor, better educated and have more opportunities.

Some people are more terrorist than others.