Then when people ask the question of if “Pakistan has an army or an army has Pakistan” they get labeled “liberals” “traitors” and so on.
Yet these very people have the guile to say PPP or PML filling the ranks of bureaucrats or government organizations with their own people is corruption... is this not corruption?
Sab saale chor thay or hein siwaye Quaid-e-Azam ke
The weirdest thing about Pakistan is that no one is accountable to anyone, at any level.
There are 'closed circles' in the US, but the privileged beneficiaries of almost all posts are still accountable to some head honcho. I doubt even this is the case in Pakistan. Do the heads of SUPARCO, WAPDA, etc even answer to the COAS? It doesn't seem like it to me.
I don't see any real sense of order, structure, or direction. You can have a corrupt direction, but at least you would see it across every institution and organization. I can't even see that within Pakistan. How else can we explain the continuous failure to profit from Thar, Reko Diq, and CPEC?
In contrast, look at Egypt. No one's going to deny that their military runs the show there, but their competency and direction for business, policymaking, racketeering, etc results in Rafale's and Mistral LHDs. In Pakistan, I think even the corrupt plans end up losing ground because of limited interest or willingness to do the work to make it happen.
I think the 'direction' (be it good or bad) was last there under Musharraf, Zia ul-Haq, Z.A. Bhutto, and Ayub Khan. That's how you got the economic upswing of the 1960s, the nationalization and nukes of the 1970s, the lucid trip of the 1980s, and feel good era of the 2000s.
