In their recent study on "The Future of Pakistan", analysts of Strategic Foresight Group at the International Centre for Peace Initiatives have observed that the Pakistan State is in the danger of imploding as it tries to balance disparate social forces in an effort to survive.
The growing influence of extremist elements, rising unemployment triggered by an economic slide and a looming clash of interests over water resources between provinces in a predominantly agrarian society, these analysts say, provides a perfect setting for an economy of violence to flourish under the tutelage of "jehadi" groups.