23 rd March significance is Commemoration of Pakistan Resolution and Constitution, it's all about rule of law, justice, civilains supremacy and the people movement behind it.
Now look at it, all taken over by the military parade, PAF shows and Navy. Where are the people of Pakistan in it for whom the country was created.
It's basically a takeover of the country Pakistan by the forces, by force. And the country was created for the Military/Fauj by the civilians and by a lawyer Jinnah.
As I have mentioned before, only the powerful and most organized will takeover in a vacuum. Pakistan had no coherent civil structures.
Society had been stratified beyond repair... hindu caste structures that divided people in social/civic professions and subsequent, British class stratification among haves and have nots, powerful and the weak, aristocracy, bureaucracy and unwashed masses... who mobilize or organize as labor unions. Which is the foundation of British political discourse ... that and the subsequent and perpetual struggle to consolidate private property, regulating it, and most importantly preserving it from the masses... in any form... unionized labor, democratizing legislation etc.
All of the above is in the nutshell what Pakistanis, as Muslims are and were not a part off... in it's set up, discourse/deliberations.
So, what essentially plays out is a part of overall governing structure that usurps it... then, naturally proceeds in Incorporating it's society and economy.
Fore going the process and build on established.
These were essentially the the most organized and in this case armed factions left on the eve of British departure. Something as you rightly pointed out, the lawyer, Jinnah could not handle or cope with... he was in essence the product of the system.
So there, it is never too late... everyone played a part in getting it to this point.
Knowing what you know now...
Where will YOU take it?
That is the question.
Islam never stratifies society in working classes. It recognizes kinship... legislation therefore is limited because baseline is clear.
That though is another, imminent however arduous topic to delve in at this point.