A Nation Still Waiting to Govern Itself

Pakistan cannot survive as a functioning state until it dismantles the structures that were never built to serve it

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that settles over a city like Karachi in the early months of a year when nothing has changed and everyone already knew nothing would. It is not the exhaustion of effort. It is the exhaustion of waiting, of watching the same institutions fail the same people in the same ways for the seventy-seventh year in a row, …