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With the recent election of Mamnoon Hussain as Pakistan’s President, the country completed a democratic transition that took almost 66 years – i.e., full executive authority now rests in the hands of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Instead of holding power at the pleasure of the president, as was the case in the past, Sharif will now be directly responsible to the elected national assembly. Fair enough, this brief observes, but will this Constitutional adjustment actually help him pull Pakistan out of the deep abyss into which it has fallen?