Pakistan, Aug. 6 -- When the interior minister of a country stands up at an economic summit and declares that the system of governance has "collapsed," it is worth pausing. Mohsin Naqvi's remarks in Islamabad a few days ago were blunt, perhaps deliberately so. He argued that Pakistan's decades-old administrative structure can no longer serve a population that has outgrown it, and that decision-making needs to move closer to the people who actually live with its consequences. Within a day, the military's spokesman distanced the institution from the statement, coalition partners split over whether it was reform or provocation, and a fabricated map of eighteen new provinces went viral on social media. That, in miniature, is Pakistan's govern...