The West and at its helm, America has always been meddling, coercing and exploiting countries' political structure in order to gain political control. We have seen America use multiple tactics, whether it be through "economic hitmen" that go in a certain country to bribe, blackmail or coerce the politicians of the target country. Political parties of the target country are worked on relentlessly until favorable results turn out. The selected political party comes to power or solidifies it's hold on power with monetary assistance packages by the Americans. Of course these financial packages come with a noose which is fixed around the neck of the political party that was brought to power by America. This methodology is not only practiced by United States in Central and South American and Caribbean regions. It is also practiced by French in the West African region.
Where political coercion doesn't work, America imposes politically targeted economic sanctions on such a country, which cripples the country to the extent the population turns against its own government. This is where America steps in and buys out the most depraved political party, ready to obey America in exchange for a ton of money. This is followed by America pumping money via World Bank and IMF to make it appear that it is helping the target country. When in reality those loans are bounced off the target country and poured into American corporations contracted to build things or create business plans for it's puppet government in the target country. This is the reason why developing countries ought to stay clear of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, as they are by definition, toxic for the target country.
If the above tactics are not sufficient to bring the target country to kneel before the West. The target country is then lined up to be bombed militarily, or worse invaded and occupied. Such tactic of course, the West does it as a collective, usually the coined term used in this context is "coalition". Prior to 9/11, the West portrayed itself as a champion of UNSC rulings and sought the approval of the UN before heading to war against the target country. Post 9/11 however, the West and in particular America, has shown utter disregard for UN approval and has gone to war, invading and consequently occupying the target country. This has been witnessed in the last 20 years, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Serbia, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia.
Pakistan has, throughout it's history, experienced all but one tactic used against it, by the West. Be it political party coercion and being bought off, like PPP and PML-N. Or be it military sanctions, whereby Pakistan was subjected to being deprived of the hardware it had already bought. The problem is identified and located sourced within the country and foreign powers outside the country. The internal shameless political punting has seen the country plunge to new depths in poverty and witnessed the plunder of obscene amounts of wealth by the bought off political party in-power, backed by the West.
Pakistanis must establish a cohesive working mechanism within Pakistani Society, in small groups and work up community building measures on grass root levels BUT ... these small groups must be working toward the same goal of forming a web across Pakistan that improves citizens lives in conjunction with and holding to account of, local governance to provincial leading to federal.
As for that rotting western empire, America, it needs to be kept in quarantine and extract only for trade where and when it is mutually favorable. Otherwise step back and watch them rot away.