Seemingly, living in denial is a Pakistani specialty, considering the defiant front that it continues to put up in the face of unprecedented socio-economic desperation, societal implosion and a civil-war-like situation when conflated with the reality in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Baluchistan etc. Even Pakistans ostensible backyard and progeny in the form of Afghan Taliban is up in arms against it, while the sectarian dissonance with a Shiite Iran is a permanent problem