On 30th July, the Interior Minister delivered a very important speech at Pakistan’s first economic summit at the Jinnah Convention Centre in Islamabad. This was the first summit of its kind. Businessmen were invited from all parts of the country. The last and key speech of the summit was delivered by Mohsin Naqvi. In his speech, he said that the current system of Pakistan had collapsed and that no matter how hard we worked or how much time we gave it, it would not work. As a solution to the collapsed system, he said we had to work on creating new provinces and new administrative units.

The next day, the DG ISPR also gave a press briefing to the media, where he not only endorsed the statement about the system’s collapse but also gave a similar solution to the problem. This sparked a new debate in the country. Some people supported the idea, while others opposed it. But it was clear that the debate about changing the system had now entered a new phase.

You may like it or not, but Mohsin Naqvi’s statement represents the mindset of some of the most powerful people in the country the people who actually run the country. You can easily understand the power of Mohsin Naqvi from a statement by Defense Minister Khawaja Asif. He said that Mohsin Naqvi is the most powerful minister in the cabinet and that, on some issues, he is not answerable to the Prime Minister.

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual report on democracy, Pakistan is under a hybrid model. Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has also given similar statements many times, saying that Pakistan is successfully running under a hybrid model. Under hybrid governance, state affairs are managed jointly by civilian and military officials. But in reality, the........

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