Pakistani people are one of the confused Nations in many ways but here I am particularly
talking about the governing system. The debate
on democracy verses
dictatorship is the hot topic now a days because recently the democratic
government has completed its five years and a former living dictator is also facing
courts for the 1st time in the history of Pakistan. It seems that we
are going to elect another democratic government in the upcoming Election.
Democratic forces always claim that democracy is the right system for Pakistan
and it should be given a chance. Fortunately democracy completed its five years on the 16th of
March that is an appreciable act. but
when we check the result of five
years we apparently find nothing but the
consolation of different political
parties for their own purposes. But when
the question of people’s problem comes in front of
them, they don’t have any satisfactory
answer. and seems like that they only want democracy to go on and on who cares the masses.
No doubt democracy is an admirable and adoptable system. It allows people to choose their leadership
themselves. If leadership doesn’t perform well they can change it and bring the new. Restriction on becoming a PM or President
again and again, not more than two leaders with blood relations should be
allowed in a party, Restriction on illiterate candidates, Restriction on
leaders who do politics of hate on terms of language, ethnicity, sect etc. but it
also required literate, responsive and cultured people. Unfortunately in
Pakistan people are divided on many basis like language, ethnicity, cast, sect,
tribe etc and illiteracy rate is very high. And the turnout is very low. So nation has to face this kind
of democracy. Where decisions are
taken not on merit but to make people happy, economic
decisions are taken on political basis, etc etc. If we compare dictatorship with
democracy, economy functioned much better in dictatorships, Decisions are taken
much faster and not only on basis to make people happy, Work flows become
shorter and much quicker.
By the way, currently
we are having the Pakistani version of democratic system, so we have to rely on it and giving
our vote to the right person, we can
make things in Pakistan’s favor. In the end, one thing I would like to confess
here that the Abraham Lincoln defined
democracy as:
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«Government of the people, by the people, for the people».
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«Government of the people’s Party, by the people’s Party,
for the people’s Party»
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