Re: Are Pakistani afraid of Cultural Diversity?
I personally think martial laws, foreign policies (resulting in spread of religious intolerance), composition of military and over centralisation of resources/government systems are responsible for these divisions.
I believe Pakistan can move forward as a democracy where each and every person has the same rights. Federation should devolve their powers to the provinces and then to local council level (work has begun by previous government but more needs to be done). The military needs to be more representative, in simple the image that goes out that Pakistan = Punjab needs to go. When every one has equal stakes things will start improving. I hope at a certain stage even the political parties have democracy in them, why can’t PMLN have a Sindhi or Baloch president? The same goes for PPP as well.
For the next few decades I believe the focus of development should be more on the impoverished areas to bring them at par with the more developed ones.