Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Military coup 12 October 1999 deposing PM Nawaz Sharif's elected government. Triggered when Nawaz attempted to dismiss Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf while latter was on flight returning from Sri Lanka, and ordered PIA flight PK-805 carrying Musharraf (with 200 passengers) denied landing at Karachi airport. Military units secured PTV, PM residence, and major cities within hours. Musharraf landed in Karachi as Chief Executive. Constitution held in abeyance, National Assembly dissolved, Provisional Constitutional Order issued 14 October. Supreme Court's Zafar Ali Shah v Federation (12 May 2000) upheld coup under doctrine of necessity with 3-year transition period. Nawaz convicted of hijacking charges (commuted), exiled to Saudi Arabia December 2000.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.