Because there's no 'Pakistani nationalism' anywhere. In Pakistan, everyone is literally out for themselves. It's either 'my family vs your family' or 'my tribe vs your tribe' or 'my province vs your province' etc. Islamists can at least see there's a common link between all of these groups (i.e. Islam) so they're running with that.
Precisely.
There is no conscious, deliberate, patient building of a national identity and, just as importantly (if not more),
national character.
Statecraft needs to be augmented with 'soulcraft.' Successive governments have failed to build this because they all have short-term, myopic visions and nobody at GHQ or PMO has the visionary chops to handle day-to-day firefighting/crisis management WITH long-term reform, institutional innovation, etc.
Anybody who thinks that Pakistan is improving and it just "takes time" is living in Lala Land. Wake up!
You want a revolution but didn't say who will be leading that revolution.
All Pakistan needs is more money either from outside or continue to fine-tune the economic structure/system which is progressing at sluggish pace for the past 74-years.
I don't see any altertives unless some super advance technology comes about that's enabled to make choices for the country or some desperately needed resource is discovered in Pakistan.
Revolutions start in the most unexpected ways.
Pakistan needs a governing elite consisting of people like some of the more sophisticated ones on this forum.
Anybody who thinks this constitutional system can deliver good governance in a developing country is fooling themselves. Ruthless reform and total transformation of state institutions, with the army sticking to its professional duties, and the utter destruction (firing squad) of ALL corrupt people regardless of sluggish NAB cases. We need a clean slate --- and then we need to get the right people into government.
Harvard graduates regularly enter the civ service/intel community, etc., in the US --- the same goes for Oxford grads in the States. That's where long-term, dominant strategies come from. Sure, we have a few NUST and LUMS toppers here and there entering but they're the exceptions.
Have you seen your government service exams? They don't even test aptitude --- they just test rot memorization and other irrelevant things. If these people were made to take the GRE (required for graduate admissions in the US), they would be, across the board, in the lowest quartile. The ISI civilian exam (MOD Assistant Director) is an even bigger joke --- you can find some past papers online and weep.
The system is not structured to attract and retain talent. A government is only as effective as its people. It's a losing war without radical reform (probably only through revolution.)