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.
Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) and Proclamation of Emergency issued 3 November 2007 by Musharraf (as Army Chief rather than President). Suspended Constitution, required judges to take fresh oath under PCO. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and ~60 senior judges refused PCO oath; detained in their residences. Deployment motivated by expectation that Supreme Court would rule Musharraf's October 2007 presidential election invalid. Free media suspended; Article 19 constitutional rights suspended. Benazir Bhutto's return from exile 18 October 2007 triggered Karachi bombing same day killing 139; second assassination attempt on Bhutto 27 December 2007 succeeded. Emergency lifted 15 December 2007 after successor-CJ Abdul Hameed Dogar appointed. February 2008 elections defeated PML-Q (54/272) as PPP (119) and PML-N (91) formed coalition government; Supreme Court judges reinstated under Zardari 2009 after Lawyers' Movement.
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.