The debate about who is “anti‑Pakistan” outside our borders misses the real point. The deeper tragedy is what Pakistan’s own establishment has done to its people over decades. Our wounds are not primarily inflicted from the outside, they are self‑inflicted, through short‑term thinking, political engineering, and a refusal to build a stable, dignified future for ordinary citizens.
For forty years, Pakistan has been governed like a crisis factory. Instead of long-term planning, we got improvisation. Instead of institutions, we got proxies. Instead of stability, we got manufactured chaos because chaos keeps certain actors relevant. And while the powerful played their games, the public paid the price.
History Has Seen This Before (that’s why it’s important to remember history)
In ancient Rome, the elite lived in luxury while the plebeians struggled for bread. The ruling class spent lavishly on villas and banquets, while the lower classes survived on grain handouts but not in Pakistan. Rome didn’t fall because of foreign enemies alone, it fell because its own leaders hollowed out the state from within.
Pakistan today mirrors that pattern. Our elite live like Roman patricians, insulated from the suffering around them, while ordinary families fight for basic staples like flour, rice, and daal.
India’s caste system offers another painful parallel. For centuries, lower castes were denied opportunity, mobility, and dignity. Their poverty wasn’t accidental, it was engineered. Pakistan has recreated a similar dynamic, not through caste, but through economic and political structures that keep the powerful powerful and the poor permanently struggling.
The World Sees What Our Leaders Pretend Not to See
IMF, Europe, and China are not blind. They see the money laundering. They see the corruption. They see politicians spending money like water, money received through kickbacks and offshore channels, while the awam cannot afford basic food. They see a country surviving on borrowed money, remittances, petroleum levies, and emergency bailouts.
When a nation’s economy stands on such fragile pillars, it cannot have an independent foreign policy. It becomes a client state, shaped by lenders who understand exactly how its elite operate.
In my opinion, Makkah pact may have some short term benefits but it will have far more consequences in long run.
What is Real Anti-Pakistan Force ?
The real threat to Pakistan isn’t Afghans claiming territory, or external narratives, or the proportion of “anti‑Pakistan” sentiment abroad. The real threat is internal decision making, decisions made by those who were supposed to protect the country but instead protected their own power.
Pakistan didn’t collapse because of enemies.
Pakistan collapsed because its rulers behaved like Roman elites and caste gatekeepers guarding privilege while sacrificing the nation.
And the human cost is unbearable, families skipping meals, children dropping out of school, elders choosing between medicine and food, young people losing hope in a country that never gave them a fair chance.
This will be my last post on this topic. There are far bigger issues in the world that deserve attention. It’s exhausting trying to reason with people who are locked into a manufactured reality or who have lived in the West for decades yet still cling to the same old feudal ways of thinking.
