How Pakistan’s Elite Captured The State, The Market & The Mind

[samsite84]

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Quite revealing details from two sane minds - liked the discussion and conclusions are ballpark right.

 

[PK781]

Isn't it the same in pretty much every country these days ??

 

[Fatman17]

The day the Great Leader died - 11th September 48 - the Elite capture began and it has not ended.

 

[wangdefa]

If you don't want a trampoline player to become a foreign minister, a news host to become a defense minister, and a real estate developer to become a president one day, then let professional experts do the work, at least the national image will not be lost.

 

[Hopefully Pessimistic]

Isn't it the same in pretty much every country these days ??

Not to even close to the same extent. Pakistan is an explicitly open feudal country. Elites treat people as subjects not co-citizens and there's a very limited middle class due to this.

Land reforms are the basic pillars of a modern Republic and Pakistan failed even here.

 

[Goenitz]

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The colonial setup was built on a micro colonial environment (feudal, tribal, baradari, etc.). It was an eventual outcome.

 

[delta2]

Isn't it the same in pretty much every country these days ??

Yes it is. But given the amount and depth of natural resources Pakistan has, the Pakistani elite are unmatched when it comes to keeping the basic, secondary school and post secondary school education out of the reach of the common man by a very insidious design. They even beat the American slave owners who fatally punished the slaves for even being suspected of learning. Sure, they ensure that the highest, the best, the most up-to-date education is available for their own children. But the Pakistani elite almost see it as a religious duty of theirs in a way to make sure that the common Pakistan person does not have easy or even difficult access to education.

 

[Fatman17]

If you don't want a trampoline player to become a foreign minister, a news host to become a defense minister, and a real estate developer to become a president one day, then let professional experts do the work, at least the national image will not be lost.

Professionals have left the country

 

[Watandar]

If you don't want a trampoline player to become a foreign minister, a news host to become a defense minister, and a real estate developer to become a president one day, then let professional experts do the work, at least the national image will not be lost.

"We" have been crushed by a colonial army's jackboots since 1953. No sane person would have chosen the leadership and policies Pakistan has had since then.

I now finally understand why Revolutions are bloody, whether French or Chinese or Russian or Iranian. It's about tearing down the existing System and not just replacing a few faces.

 

[hasssanali8998]

I now finally understand why Revolutions are bloody, whether French or Chinese or Russian or Iranian. It's about tearing down the existing System and not just replacing a few faces.

none of them had nukes or a neighbour like india /afghanistan



Like it or not, neither are Pakistanis capable of revolution, nor will our unique situation allow us to have one. We will be like this forever , a patient on life support that becomes conscious once every few years, then goes back because his body is still broken.