As the brightest. He belongs to a generation of people which has seen a steady decline of Pakistan society, economy, institutions, and above all, tremendous amount of political corruption. They have sat and watched the decline and decay of our system, political system, economic system, and my guess is that this has been a fundamental motivation in what he has done. I know you said you don't think he cares much of what the West thinks of what he has done, but this was a democratically-elected government. Well, first of all, let's be clear about what democracy is.
Democracy is representation by the people, number one.
In Pakistan's last three elections, no more than 17 percent of the total population has voted. I don't think that anyone can rationally argue that Pakistan is a democratic state in that sense. So that hurdle I don't think existed in his mind. The hurdle that probably did exist is that the military has become increasingly reticent in recent years to interfere in civilian affairs to, try to let a government serve out a full term in office. The trouble is that Nawaz Sharif chose this at this point in time, why we still don't know, to interfere in the internal politics of the army.