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Terming the form of government in Pakistan as a "hybrid regime, not democracy", a Central Intelligence Agency report has predicted a "breakdown" of the country.
"Globalisation means there could be breakdowns in bigger, developed, urban places where the United States may not be able to intervene. Pakistan is the best current example of this because it seems to encompass the worst of everything," the CIA said in the 100-page report on the impact of demographics on politics.
It said, "In addition to contributing to political volatility in several already unstable regions and countries, youth bulges may provide large numbers of Afghan and Pakistani youth willing to engage in terrorist activities."
The real immediate problem would involve a breakdown in a place where moral intervention is not possible, but where there are greater strategic consequences, the report said.
On the form of government in Pakistan, the report said: "There will continue to be a variety of mixed or hybrid regimes that will only officially be called democratic for the sake of stability. Pakistan and Indonesia are current examples."
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