Re: Pakistan & The Establishment
This statement is so true.
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An informal political system that [ties] together the senior ranks of the military, the civil service, key members of the judiciary, and other elites.
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With all the democracy shamocracy this is the group, which is protected and served in Pakistan. In the past few decades the leadership is consumed with just feeding this "Establishment" and the wealth never ever trickles down to the ever non existing middle class of Pakistan. If you look at the "feeding" frenzy going on in Pakistan you will realize that people will do anything to join this "establishment" hence the corruption and lawlessness.
For the current leadership it will take another few years to just satisfy the appetite of the establishment, may me after that the leadership will just start looking at the people of Pakistan, by then we will have a new leadership and the whole vicious circle will start again.