The book argues that Pakistan has been in the grip of an unending holistic decline since the 1980s, owing to its adopted strategic policy framework premised on the Security State, militant religious nationalism and neoliberalism inspired market-centric economic paradigm. Stemming this decline, and tackling our multi-crises is primarily dependent on changing the current strategic direction of the state, irrespective of the party or person in power. The author conducts a political, socio-cultural, economic and institutional analysis of the strategic policy framework to propose along with concrete recommendations, an alternative vision and plan encompassing a Developmental State that adopts civic nationalism anchored in the people’s Indo-Islamic civilizational roots while espousing a production centric paradigm as its economic strategy.