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.
Chief Executive's Order 24/2002 ("Legal Framework Order") promulgated 21 August 2002, amending Constitution prior to October 2002 elections. Content: restored Article 58(2)(b) presidential-dismissal power (repealed by 13th Amendment 1997); added National Security Council with military chiefs as statutory members; graduate-degree requirement for MPs; Musharraf's continued Army Chief role alongside presidency. 17th Amendment Act passed December 2003 by 2/3 parliamentary majority (PML-Q plus MMA) incorporated most LFO provisions. Struck down / superseded by 18th Amendment 2010 under PPP-led Zardari government.
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.