The alternative.

"A nation trampled by despotism, degraded, forced into the role of an object, seeks shelter."
"But a whole nation cannot emigrate, so it undertakes a migration in time rather than in space. In the face of circling afflictions and of reality, it goes back to the past that seems a lost paradise. The old acquires a new sense, a new and provocative meaning."

This was Ryszard Kapuscinski, a journalist commenting on the ascent of the Ayatollah in Iran.

In the context of Pakistan today, one wonders what will emerge.