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Your observations are made very casually. This time no sweets were distributed. IKs removal was met with spontaneous protests. This is unlike that NS fail when he returned from UK and no one showed up.

Yes explains perfectly why people protested when IK was removed and distributed sweets when Bajwa retired. Also perfectly explains why Bajwa wanted to get IK removed in first place.

Lol, whose mistakes were costly again? The solution to IKs mistakes are to bring the PDM?

MashAllah you are very patient man. The antithesis of what Keynes said - in the long run we are all dead anyways.

Why is it illegal if SC ruled it legal? How do the constitutionalists understand illegalities then?

How was it illegal in 1999 if the then SC ruled it 100% A-okay? Serious question. Also let’s assume that what Musharraf said was true. Should have Musharraf just have let the civilian aircraft crash and kill hundreds of civilians? But patwaris thinking he is talking about the SC ruling non...

The thing about electoral politics in Pakistan is that if PTI sweep KPK, it really depends actually on how split the field is. In reality, maybe only 35% of voters in KPK support PTI but because the rest of the field is split, they sweep the elections there. In Punjab, it’s roughly a third...

You need to differentiate between the different types of corruption. One type of corruption is straight up theft. Stealing from the nation and sending this money abroad. In Islam, theft is punished by cutting off the hand. This is in the Quran. For theft at the scale that the Sharifs and...

I hate to say this- but this is true. Punjabis will counter by saying that the others are more racist that they are. This is also true probably. Unf, it really does not matter. Because Punjab is more than 50% of the country, their racism matters more. And if Punjabis continue to vote their...

After 8 years of Musharraf era, stellar growth across the board, first time SOEs were making profits, and halving of public debt to GDP and doubling of per capita GDP, look at what happened the year he was gone. If you put a chor like Zardari and Sharif at the helm, don’t talk about inherent...

As far as the economy goes, it’s laughable that people want to talk about Musharraf by talking about how he left the country. Frankly, you had the chors before him, you had the chors after him. For a brief period of 8 years or so, he showed you how much economic progress could be made if you...

I’m pretty sure that we can fix the bureaucracy if we put performance standards in place and fire people if they don’t meet them. Also make the bureaucracy completely merit based. If we want to have quotas, have them in the army only. I don’t think the bureaucracy went south due to lack of...

The PDM is dragging its feet accepting IMF demands by getting their lackeys in the judiciary involved. Don’t read it as separate. It’s like a giant mafia.

It’s great if you and to be an absolutist bout it btw. All the more power to you. Pragmatically, I think the way you solve them is different.

In my mind, a lot of things are corruption. The highest priority was to go after the biggest cases in the country through NAB. I have no doubt that IK is not lying when he says that QJB did not let those cases reach fruition. If we agree that nepotism is a type of corruption, then surely you...

We can’t make that a claim but you are free to assume as much. I would argue that you should also assume the previous people were also corrupt (probably true if most people are corrupt). It depends on what type of corruption you mean exactly. The differentiation is very important. You have...

Buzdar’s corruption was giving positions to his family - his corruption was nepotism. There is no equivalence to be drawn between that and Sharif or Zardari. Doing so is a red herring. Buzdars corruption is fixed by implementing merit based systems in all public positions. Sharifs and Zardaris...

Pleased to hear this. How much are the provincial quotas and when were they enforced? I ask because this alone could have probably avoided ‘71. The army’s efficiency being higher than civilian institutions is not blasphemy at all. But common wisdom. Our bureaucracy has become void after the...

Buzdar was a mistake true. I think PAF might be the standard for being based on merit. The other branches need to copy this and if this leads to downsizing, then so be it. Also, I have given this some thought. In Pakistan, we arrange quotas for the bureaucracy and the army is supposed to be on...

You need to read up on Islamic democracy. The sort of system that people like Syed Sulayman Nadwi were pushing for. Islamic law does not contradict with democracy. Neither parliamentary or otherwise. Nor does it contradict rule of law or devolution of power or checks and balances. Or giving...