Pakistan's problem was always a surplus of people willing to say the system has failedThe writer is a lawyer and development consultant. Pakistan's problem was always a surplus of people willing to say the system has failed. A country that can describe its own collapse this eloquently, this repeatedly, has stopped treating collapse as an emergency and now treats it as genre. What Pakistan needs is someone willing to explain who benefits from the system staying exactly as broken as it is. A tax system effectively avoided by those most able to pay it leaves its heaviest burden on those least able to carry it.