In a scathing criticism of the Pakistani elite, the former director of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for Pakistan Marc-André Franche, said the only way a critical change could happen in the country was when the influential, the politicians and the wealthy, would sacrifice short term, individual and family interests for the benefit of the nation.

Migration and terrorism have become main problem for Europeans. These two issues took lead over their concerns about the economical situation and unemployment.

Every few months in the UK, news reports talk about the new record high for the number of prisoners in UK jails. In my living memory, I am not aware of the prison population ever going down.

On 12 August, news agency “Radio Liberty” reported about the mass arrests of the refugee-immigrants from Central Asia in Istanbul, Turkey: "There were arrested about 140 people from Central Asia over the past few days in Istanbul.