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.

In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.

In a world in which technology is changing at such a fast pace, where demand conditions change very fast, we need to look at a more innovative mechanism to cut down on this rigmarole of many tiers of decision-making processes.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

I sincerely hope that whatever influence the United States has in Pakistan, it will convince Pakistan that using terrorism as an instrument of state policy has no place in the world that we want to build.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

What we need is a dialogue amongst civilizations.