You know your honestly right. The real tragedy of Pakistan is it get's the worse deal going. Earlier in trhe day I was watching that Pakistam hater Christian Fair taking part in this conferance in India talking about the Balakot incident. Pakistan was painted as a brutal military dictatorship that would make Nazi Germans blush. One Indian spoke of the Pakistani media being controlled by DGISPR. And how Indian media was so critical it it made the job of Indian military difficult. Then he went on to describe India as a liberal democracy.
From my personal perspective I would say British media is tame compared to Pak media. Dawn, Tribune etc just carry article after article that go out of their way to lambast the government. Indian media from what I have seen are just Modi's private guard dogs that bark and bite at the behest of their boss.
Yes. contrary to what has been painted unforuntately and I say that because I wish the establishment was strong like in Turkey that way at least issues would be sorted out. But the reason Pakistan establishment is weak are down to the regions and demography that is held together loosely.
Any government in Pakistan stands atop a very unstable federation. You got to keep a eye on rural Sind, a eye on Karachi, a eye on Balochistan, a eye on erstwhile FATA, a eye on various radic al religous groups in Punjab like TLP etc. If a government pushes to hard the danger is any one of these loose groups could begin to unite. Alone they might not be able to anything but if they start togather no government Pakistan even with military support will stay in power for long. We saw what happened to Musharaf in 2008.
So how do some countries like Turkey have such strong establishments? Well simple. The power base of those countries are very homogenous. So think of Pakistan Army. 700,000 men. Where are they mostly recruited from? I would say Potohar plateau is the ground zero with neighbouring districts. Now I want you to think if Pakistan was just that region.
In this case the country would be very homogenous. The army could practically have iron grip on the population. This is what Turkey is like. Pakistan instead is so divided, diverse with groups pushing in opposite directions and it makes for a wild, unstable structure.