Look you are making it as catch 22...My points were how do they deliver when they have no power....how to get power when they have no public support...and your point how public will give support when they don't deliver....
The civilian government doesn't have complete power over certain specific issues (foreign policy for example), but they absolutely have power over most domestic issues, which is what the common Pakistani will be impacted by most. The Army isn't stopping the civilian government from enacting reforms in education, health, infrastructure and law enforcement. It isn't stopping the civilian government from expanding and improving the delivery of services to the people, or refining and expanding the tax net, ending VIP culture, working with the judiciary to expand and improve the delivery of justice or reforming and expanding law enforcement agencies. These are the things that the public can see and experience in their daily lives, not some intangible policy positions on engagement with the US, Afghanistan and India. These are the issues that civilian government needs to address in order to gain public support.
To some degree the PMLN actually gets this, that public support can be won by development that people can experience, which is why they are so focused on building 'Motorway's and Rapid Transit Systems'. But the problem is that their approach is extremely narrow and their policies rather shallow (once you get beyond the glitzy mega-projects). Once the public gets over the initial novelty of air conditioned buses, they won't be so forgiving about the lack of basic services.
Now if public has given them entire support for running the whole country then i fail to understand why they are not backing them up against there military....The reason i believe(i hope i am wrong) is that a common Pakistani perhaps like this way of power equation...your comments please....
Pakistan is still evolving as a democracy, and the 55% turnout includes a significant amount of people (especially in rural/feudal areas) who vote en masse based on particular demographic indicators. Excluding the hard core party supporters, many who vote do so because they realize that a democratic system is the only option in the long term and that in order for said democratic system to be successful, it needs continuity. That doesn't mean they completely trust the political choices they have (over the Army), but they recognize the need for democratic continuity. These 2 (contradictory in some ways) views are what results in the current public mood of supporting an Army role in domestic security issues and foreign policy, and at the same time wanting continuity in the elected government.
Now this is silly....You are trying to justify an act of bulding international pressure to put a lid on inflammatory rhetoric by making inflammtory rhetoric of magnitude many times more.....IMHO this policy has failed and will continue to fail....Historically New Delhi didn't escalate when you did Kargil on us...same is true during Parliament attack....and finally mumbai attack....There is no reason to keep harping from roof top that how you will nuke us...
If the Modi and his minions keep the anti-Pakistan hysteria going with their hostile statements, getting global attention (and pressure on India) by raising the nuclear card is a valid policy in my view.
This is a mere cover up...First of all i am not even aware of recent "inflammatory rhetoric" that threatened your survival...so please share otherwise your point of repeating them is nothing short of intellectual dishonesty...
Take the rhetoric after the Myanmar raid for example - any threat of military aggression against Pakistan, even if limited, has to be addressed from the perspective that such aggression will escalate into a full fledged war, which in turn brings about the nuclear scenario. India has conventional military advantages in many areas that might in fact allow for a successful 'limited conflict' on her part - you can't expect Pakistan to play by India's rules and to India's strengths in such a case, which is why Pakistan will escalate to increase the cost for India (and of course for herself as well) and therefore attempt to deter India from actually carrying out any such 'limited military operations'.