much of what you refer to is the product of authoritarianism not vice versa. The Blasphemy laws and other revisions of the political framework, were not the result of any democratic process.
Thats true.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (who nationalized the economy........................the single greatest set back) .
Nope. The single greatest setback was the civil war and the authoritarianism drastically mis-applied there.
It stemmed from and was allowed to cascade from the ayub khan precedent (which in itself came from the political crisis after jinnah and such things as the objectives resolution that gave all the ample ammunition for what was to follow).
we were a developing country lauded for our good governance held alongside Singapore.
Not really.
Firstly, Singapore was not a study case till the 80s after it had accomplished sizeable results.
"Good governance" is not the term you are looking for here either.
Pakistan simply was given SEATO credentials in the cold war. The more USD your system is open for, the more can be referenced and "praised".
A useful start, but again needed bedrock to take to any actual realisation....things that Pakistan's establishment absconded from drastically.
That marks the main difference between other cold war western partners in Asia.
When the World Bank dispensed loans to South Korea, they sent the Koreans to Pakistan to learn good governance.... how things have changed...
Again its not "good governance".
These involved institutional framework and policies of the time.....rather than realised execution of such (which can only be measure several decades later).
Singapore sent number of its civil servants to Cambodia as well for similar reason...since Cambodia was fairly institutionally robust for its time (having inherited these from the French and were not being ravaged by major strife like rest of formerly French Indochina).
How would have Cambodia fared today in an alternate history without suffering Pol Pot and his genocidal goons, is still anyone's guess though....as governance is a long term thing.