As people suffer, Pakistani authorities continue to enforce rinse-and-repeat project: Report

Islamabad, Aug 14 (IANS) Even though Pakistan became an independent nation on August 14, 1947, basic contradictions around Pakistan's national identity, resources, representation and ties with neighbouring nations remain acute as they were in 1947 even after 79 years, a report has said.

Pakistan virtually has no representative institutions operational, and its unelected state apparatuses use resources in peripheral regions.