This letter refers to the article ‘Who owns Pakistan?’ (September 8, 2024) by Ghazi Salahuddin. We are increasingly a lost and failing nation-state. A very small elite continues to dominate the country at all levels and it is chiefly responsible for our downfall over the past many decades.
In any other country, there would have been a huge popular revolution and the entire existing, corrupt and incompetent system would have been overthrown. In Pakistan, the people remain suppressed and we are unable to break the shackles of tyranny.
Hissam S Khan
Abbottabad
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