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515 | Why Pakistan's Hybrid System is Failing | Yasir Ahmed | TBT
Are the days of external patronage for Pakistan over? In this episode of Thought Behind Things, Muzamil Hasan Zaidi sits down with brilliant political analyst Yasir Ahmed Sumro to decode the changing world order and its direct impact on Pakistan's political economy.
Yasir breaks down why the US and Middle Eastern states can no longer afford to fund Pakistan's rent-seeking elite, why traditional political parties like PTI, PML-N, and PPP are becoming irrelevant, and what the looming "pajama of accountability" means for the future of the hybrid regime. If you want to understand the real…
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