APROPOS ‘Coup talk’ (Oct 08). Once elections are announced, the coup talk would automatically subside. My proposal to the stakeholders is to reduce the next government’s tenure to four years.

For better performance, its agenda should be political reconciliation, economic growth, broadening the tax base and fast-track implementation of CPEC and NAP programmes.

It should also ensure transparent and impartial accountability and demographic reforms besides Fata’s quick integration into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as an economic development programme for the tribal areas.

We should stop wasting the nation’s time and resources on bickering over key national issues. So let’s give our democratic process one last chance to deliver or otherwise seriously consider an efficient presidential form of government. Food for thought, for all stakeholders of Pakistan.

Abbas R. Siddiqi

Lahore

Published in Dawn, October 16th, 2017