In Islamabad, a governing arrangement is straining not from the pressure of opposition but from the admissions of those within it — a rare and telling moment when the architects of power begin to question the structure they inhabit. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose political identity has always rested on managerial competence rather than charisma or symbolism, finds that identity hollowed out as his own interior minister declares the system effectively collapsed. What is unfolding is less a crisis of leadership than a crisis of architecture — a reckoning with whether Pakistan's inherited g