[blackhawkC17]

> The regular people of Pakistan are being punished by international organizations for the actions of a few dirty apples among them.

Pakistan ranks very high in the corruption scale. They’re being punished for the actions of their elected leaders, the corrupt ones they’ve consistently refused to vote out of office.

[abdullahkhalids]

Pakistan has been captured by the civil bureaucracy+military since almost independence - before independence, these same structures/people were used by the British to exert their control/exploit the region.

Pakistan has had three elections where the federal government was formed by the largest party with organic support, these governments lasting about 12/77 years of existence. Besides the 30 years of military dictatorship, every other election has been almost fully managed by the military, where their party of choice was artificially made to win.

Baluchistan, where this agreement was signed, has never had free and fair elections. It's too resource rich, and too sparsely populated for the elite across the country to allow its people any exercise any sort of control over their destiny.

The people of Pakistan have had very little chance or opportunity to vote out corrupt politicians.