Economics does not define a country but does politics and justice. Excellency in the latter was, is and will remain to be deciding factor of a country's future. Today our nation has failed by its politicians and mainly by the respected Judiciary, which did the right to wrong the country. In a matter of hours, our judicial system became straighter than the pole our judges dance around. To them, a plethora of wrongs which have been happening in 49 years (73-today) were actually rightful and promoted in the constitution.
Human rights (chapter 2 of our Constitution) which includes, but is not limited to:
1.Right to assembly (PPP let lose force on protestors in Balochistan in 79s)
Right to property (real-state still unregulated, fuedalismj, land mafia system still at large)
2.Rights of education (cases of corruption at HEC ignored till they were forgotten)
3.Rights of no discrimination (Pakistan ranks 153/156 in Gender gap ranking)
4.Protection against forced labour which includes child labor (the labours beaten to the death and children can be seen working at workshops and food stalls)
5.Protection of dignity (Mukhtara Mai case)
They all were never taken care of.
Article 220 or so of Constitution speaks on fair elections. Apparently that too is beyond the court jurisdictions.
Intervention of fed govt. when provincial fails to deliver (sindh govt not letting fed do their part, when the former clearly failed)
What I have mentioned above is not even the tip of the ice berg.
Moreover, the rule of law Index is designed to offer a detailed and comprehensive picture of the extent to which countries adhere to the rule of law in practice. It takes into account the injustice done in social and political sense. It has 8 basis for governing a nations's judicial system. Here Pakistan ranks as 9th from the bottom. If this pious Judiciary was so sensible and accurate in its matters, we couldn't be in this debacle. Again it was not the economy, but a wing of the state that failed the country.
Summary: Yes economy is important but it comes under politics. Economy is not the silver bullet to success, having a robust policy making body is, sound laws are.
E.g. Your FDI do not depend on your economic well being as much as it depend on your diplomatic acumen and your ability to maintain law and order.
Think of all this from a Political Economic Perspective. As a Country not a manufacturing factory.
There are many better socio-economic, trans-nantional and geopolitical initiatives made under the current regime that I've not mentioned
