Pakistan’s current security crisis is a direct result of both structural as well as trigger factors. The religious nature of the state i.e. Islamic Republic of Pakistan and its dispute with India over the Himalayan state of Kashmir represent two major structural factors. Both became even more pronounced during General Ziaul Haq’s era between 1977, when he seized power through a coup, and August 1988, when the C-130 aircraft carrying him and several other generals as well as the American ambassador crashed near Bahawalpur, central Pakistan. A lopsided notion of ‘strategic depth’ is another structural factor born out of the proximity to Afghanistan in the west. Besides internal trigger factors such as serious fundamental governance issues, political instability, military interventions, and questionable law-enforcement issues, a tardy criminal justice, global geopoliticstoo, has contributed to its volatility as trigger factors,….