PM takes notice of future after ordering it cancelled

I have spent the better part of two decades trying to persuade Pakistan’s institutions to think in decades rather than in news cycles. I built the Pakistan State of Future Index (PK-SOFI) to measure where the country stood against its own long-range indicators. I have sat in rooms with the National Intelligence Council, the OECD, the UK Cabinet Office’s Horizon Scanning unit, and South Korea’s Parliamentary Caucus on Foresight, watching how seriously other systems take the discipline of anticipation. And I keep coming back to Pakistan with the same question: why does foresight refuse to take root here, no matter how many divisions we build, how many scenarios we run, or how many white…