Pakistan’s Westernized founding fathers and their successors loved to have a drink and sat on the periodic demands of a ban on alcohol until the 1970s when the prohibition—at least on paper—was imposed
Prohibition in Pakistan has been relaxed over the years with provincial governments granting more permits to individuals and hotels to sell alcohol amid a debate on the benefits of the liquor ban
Khan has precipitated the worst crisis for the military since last decade when a lawyers’ movement forced Pervez Musharraf out of power and it later failed to detect Osama bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad, Pakistan’s equivalent of Sandhurst
The history of Pakistani politicians falling out with the country’s military goes back to the 1960s when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was then in his 30s, revolted against Ayub Khan two years after the military ruler made the young politician foreign minister
Pakistan’s judiciary has had an unenviable record of legitimizing military rulers under the ‘doctrine of necessity but has also over the decades managed to stand out by exerting a check on the executive and the military establishment
