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.
National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) promulgated 5 October 2007 by President Musharraf. Granted blanket amnesty withdrawing corruption and criminal cases against politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen filed 1986-1999. ~8,000 individuals benefited; ~3,478 cases closed including those against Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, Altaf Hussain. Designed to enable Bhutto's return from exile (which she did 18 October 2007) and engineer a Musharraf-Bhutto power-sharing arrangement pre- election. Struck down by reinstated Supreme Court in Dr Mobashir Hassan v Federation 16 December 2009 (under post-Lawyers'- Movement CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry), voiding all closures.
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.