This refers to Amina Babar’s article ‘Why Pakistan Broke’ (December 31, 2024). The author highlights the importance of institutions in the socio-economic development of a country with or without democratic governance.
When honest, educated, confident, bright and capable men and women enter the institutional workforce, amazing things begin to happen in the development of a country. Perhaps, now is the time to focus on development first and democracy second for the next fifteen or twenty years.
Abbas R. Siddiqui
Lahore