From controlling media to managing the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and running foreign policy to holding meetings with businessmen and investors, the opposition party in Pakistan is right that the military is running a parallel government under a civilian façade to the detriment of democracy, wrote RSIS Research Fellow Abdul Basit in a commentary.

…Abdul Basit is a research fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore.