and critical to what's going on in balochistan is not really what everybody knows is usual, but perhaps0% of the population, pashtun, but a capital is a mainly pashtun city also. that is a major drag, ultimately, on moves to independence. >> thank you. and let me ask mohsin to speak about the 19th amendment, and then -- 18th amendment, and then maybe you can talk about the drones. >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> um, yeah. on the 18th amendment and the national finance report, award, i just want to say three short, quick points. first of all, i think it was a terrific political move. it was part of the people's party manifest. this has been in the works, the a devolution of political power to the provinces, and therefore, to make pakistan more representative, a more representative democracy. so it was a political move. and a good one at that point. and i think anatol would probably agree with that. from an economic standpoint, it was a big mistake. and i think this is where a problem arises in the decentralization. you were referring to the question of it. what happened really was ha while

>> his parents came from the mountains of iran in a region called balochistan. their land is divided into afghanistan, iran and pakistan and they've fought the leaders of all three of those countries at different times trying to get independence. his father came in 1950, i think, or 1951, to kuwait. the records are sparse on this. and his mother followed shortly thereafter. they had a number of children, at least four in front of khalid sheikh mohammed. his father died when he was very young and there was no welfare at the time in the 1960's and 1970's in kuwait so his mother had to take any job she could get so she washed the bodies of the dead before burial. >> why did he come to north carolina to the college. why did he come? >> he came for two reasons. one was that the english language standards were lax and his english was poor. he was very good at science and math but his english wasn't up to par so he looked for a college with a weak entrance exam. and if you look at the pattern of arab foreign students, they're different from other kinds of foreign stude