I spent years studying why #Pakistan is stuck in this cycle of democratic backsliding and then democratization. I literally wrote a book about this, I took pains to explain exactly why this happens having lived it first hand. The answer is because that’s how the system is set up The system in #Pakistan has a built in kill switch. Beyond a certain point of change and reform, the system … bureaucracy, economic elites and military, mobilize to revert it back to its default position through courts and slow walking reform. They do it every single time