Fact is, Hasina gives a hoot about the who or the how of running Pakistan. She is intensely focussed on the trial of her family's killers—her family was wiped off on 15 August 1975—who were almost to a man, all military men who incidentally had fought Pakistan in the Bangla liberation war of 1971. After she came to power, much of her energy has been devoted to make sure they hang. The magistracy has tried them all—in presence or in absence—and passed the expected death sentence. The verdict is now being heard at the Supreme Court for confirmation.
These appear to be dicey moments for Pakistan's military supremo General Pervez Musharraf who in this instance took umbrage at what Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed had to say about the khaki claddies chucking elected political leaders from state power as it has often happened in Pakistan and Bangladesh. He read in the Bangladesh prime minister's speech at the UN Summit an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of Pakistan. Musharraf cancelled a meeting with Hasina at the last moment in a huff, and a stream of bad feelings have flown between the two since then. But it is almost certain that Pakistan's chief executive had read the Bangla prime minister's rhetoric wrong.
To ensure that her family's role in the country's history is well-remembered, Hasina has named everything from bridges to stadia to roads, parks, hospitals, etc after her parents and other members of the family since she came to power. This is where the military comes in.
But the trial has been prolonged, and has taken much of Hasina's ruling period. She is deeply troubled by the fact that despite all the efforts and inspite of personally leading the charge from her prime minister's chair, the legal system has defied her attempt to finish off the task she had set as her highest personal and political priority. Pakistan doesn't at all figure in that scheme of things. Military coup plotters and their friends do.