I think there's been a pretty strong upward trend, but not much compared to South Korea for sure. We had a setback in the 70s, first with the war with India an

I think there's been a pretty strong upward trend, but not much compared to South Korea for sure. We had a setback in the 70s, first with the war with India and then 80s where Zia weaponized religion (with western support!) to fight the USSR in Afghanistan. We're still reeling from that. All the nastiest laws you read about in the news (death to blasphemers, rape victims getting jailed for adultery) are from that era. But I think if you look at poverty, literacy graphs etc, you'll see an upward trend. Even democracy seems stronger than it was when I was a child, though I think we've regressed when it comes to media freedom.