Pakistan, July 9 -- Every nation, at some point in its history, is confronted by a question it can no longer afford to postpone. For Pakistan, the question is not how many citizens it has, but what kind of citizens it produces. We have spent decades diagnosing our afflictions as inflation, unemployment, debt, and political instability, when in truth these are symptoms of a deeper structural failure: rapid demographic growth unmatched by investment in human capital, governance, and institutional capacity. Population, in itself, has never been the enemy of progress. China, India, and the United States prove that scale, harnessed by competent institutions and sound policy, becomes an economic asset rather than a liability. The real Pakistani...