Pak army would have been reduced to Punjab police if Nawaz Sharif rule this country for another 5-10 years. This is what NS wants since 1993 onwards. Inviting Vajpai to Lahore, going to ceremony of Modi's first premiership and not meeting Huriyat, inviting Modi at his granddaughter's ceremony, inviting Jindal, Dawn leaks etc. were all part of the scheme. NS is hell bent on improving relationship with India even at the cost of Kashmir and sovereignty so that role of Pak army will diminish and then NS and his dynasty will rule without an fear from any pillar of the state.
The GDP growth under NS was all due to huge imports and insensible spending. This was never sustainable. This was the recipe for disaster. This will take years for Pak to come out of the burden of loans.
On the other hand, IK is good speaker and sometimes it does help Pak when he speaks against Indian hegemony and its atrocities in Kashmir. We should not forget NS didn't even utter a word against modi in 4 years of his last tenure.
But IK is too naive and stupid on so many other fronts and I don't think he will ever learn. Still he is far far better than NS and Zardari.