The precarious political situation in Pakistan reminds me of a famous children’s nursery rhyme. It goes something like this: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again. It feels like all the political, economic and constitutional faultiness of Pakistan are converging towards a decision point. And everyone is sitting on the edge of that wall, waiting for a fall.
At the centre of these faultiness is a simple and profound question: who rules Pakistan? The answer to that simple question is dramatic and complicated.
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