The article is written by Imran Aslam Khan, an Aviation Professional and Businessman.
Supporters will remember Nawaz Sharif as a three-time Prime Minister who championed motorway construction, energy projects and infrastructure development. His critics, however, argue that his political legacy is defined more by expediency than by institution-building.
From this critical perspective, Sharif emerged from the military-backed political order of the 1980s and repeatedly alternated between confrontation and accommodation with Pakistan’s military establishment. Critics contend that this reflected a political system in which elected governments often operated within limits set by more powerful unelected institutions.
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Economically, Pakistan has fallen further behind many of its regional peers over the past four decades. In the late 1980s, Pakistan’s economy was significantly larger than Vietnam’s and far closer in scale to India’s than it is today. China and India have since grown into major global economies, while Pakistan has experienced repeated cycles of political instability and economic crisis. Today, China’s economy is around US$19 trillion, India’s is close to US$4 trillion, while Pakistan’s is approximately US$400 billion. Pakistan’s GDP per person has also been overtaken by India and remains far below China’s.
Critics argue that successive governments—including those led by PML-N—failed to deliver sustained structural reforms, allowing persistent fiscal deficits, mounting public debt, weak state-owned enterprises, governance failures and institutional decline to deepen over time. Pakistan continues to face recurring IMF programmes, low investment, unemployment pressures and weak productivity.
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To many of his critics, Nawaz Sharif’s enduring legacy is not simply one of missed economic opportunities, but of a political culture that prioritised power, patronage and short-term survival over lasting institutional reform.
“Nawaz Sharif may be remembered as a divisive figure in Pakistan’s political history: a leader who built roads, but not institutions; who won elections with establishment support, while Pakistan lost decades.”
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The article is written by Imran Aslam Khan, an Aviation Professional and Businessman.
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