The path to political upheaval

The August 5 Bangladesh revolution shows that repressive and corrupt regimes have no future in the new political order being defined by the repressed yet ambitious youth. The sooner all concerned in Pakistan learn this lesson, the better. Since former prime minister Hasina Wajid headed a corrupt and repressive regime, even the appreciable economic progress Bangladesh made during her time could not save her from falling from grace. That said, there is enough time for our current hybrid regime to control corruption in all its forms with as much seriousness as it rightly demonstrates in containing terrorism. The country’s hybrid leadership must not show any leniency to the terrorists and their local or foreign supporters.