nabeelam

I am well-aware (I live here!) but that is an entirely different claim, and is indeed unfortunately a higher standard Pakistani politics has not yet met.

Sure, but I am arguing the strictly technical definition of terms completed by and power transferred between civilian governments.

My own opinion: democracy is hardly a boolean value -- these transfers, faulty and flawed as they may be, did legitimize civilian rule in the public eye.

That isn't correct since 2008. Two have:

• 2008-13 PPP-led coalition government, which transferred power to the

• 2013-18 PML(N) government, which transferred power to the

• 2018-22 PTI (Khan's party) government, which was ousted in its penultimate year by a vote of no-confidence in the National Assembly.

To dedicate your life to your father's work, to forgo carving your own path, and at great risk of carrying blame for tarnishing Tolkien's legacy, and still earning praise for it -- I don't think the money offsets it by much.

That...isn't the point?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Soviet_Russia

Karl Marx.