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.