Pakistan’s Recurring Political Crises Rooted in Undemocratic Systems, Not Just Bad Governance

A polity or petri dish?

CONTRARY to the interior minister’s recent claim, bad governance is not the cause of the recurring collapse of political systems. It is only a symptom of a deeper systemic malaise — an undemocratic dispensation that allows the rulers to escape political and institutional accountability for their ills and excesses. The minister’s panacea for bad governance — the creation of more provinces — is also misconceived, if not potentially disastrous for a country already riddled with multiple fault li...

By [email protected] (Shahab Usto)