No Ice Cream in Karachi

We were all set to start the morning on a light-hearted note, but then we stumbled across this eye-popping (and curiously underreported) Richard Holbrooke quote:

"Karachi, the world's largest Muslim city, 18 million people, had about four hours of electricity a day during the worst of the summer months. And we want to do things to help address that problem," he said.

This reminded us of something we once heard Robert D. Kaplan utter about Pakistan, several years prior to the coining of the...