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.
Pakistan Armed Forces joint counter-terrorism operation launched 15 June 2014 in North Waziristan Agency following the Jinnah International Airport Karachi attack. Cleared sanctuary of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Haqqani-adjacent and foreign-fighter networks. ~1 million civilians temporarily displaced; substantial reduction in TTP attack tempo within Pakistan in subsequent years. Followed by the 16 December 2014 Army Public School Peshawar attack and the National Action Plan (Dec 2014) which added civilian counter-terrorism components including military courts under the 21st Amendment and mass executions following lifted moratorium. Institutional and rule-of-law implications flagged through military-court jurisdiction over civilians.
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.