June 29, 2021 What is Kaptaan’s legacy going to be? It is a question worth asking as the stars begin to line up for Prime Minister Imran Khan in the third year of his first stint as PM. Let’s first get the big one out of the way. An obsessive reliance on the civil-military disequilibrium is not unreasonable, both as an explainer of what has happened in Pakistan thus far, and what is likely to happen in Pakistan in the future. Will PM Khan fall out with the security establishment eventually? Everyone else has, so why would he not? But everyone else also had a different path to the top office in the country. Could the military rank and file finally have found a PM that they can really get behind? Maybe. But there is no such thing as an obedient superior. There are also no guarantees in life. PM Khan may or may not fall out with the security establishment – but is that how legacies are built in Pakistan? Not really.