Benazir meets Israel's UN ambassador

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Re: Benazir meets Israel’s UN ambassador

@Fraudz

I dont disagree, but it has to be run in parellel, so you have the systems of checks and balances getting in place now, you need clear clean elections which to my knowledge have never taken place in the modern era in Pakistan.

We might have some fair elections this time. At least fairer than before. All fingers r pointing towards that.

@Fraudz

but we cant wait and say these are not some expectations that we have.

we need to have TV and live debates between candidates, townha meetings and al where they are asked the tough questions.

Dawn News has a debate program going on. The program is called 30:30, where each participant is giving 30 seconds to respond to questions/comments etc. They haven’t pitted any election candidates against each other yet but they probably will when elections come near. Unfortunately Dawn has a small, educated viewership so it is probably not peneterating the mass market.

On other hand, CNBC Pakistan was given a license to operate an Urdu language news and current affairs channel so that should take care of quality debate reaching most Pakistani’s. With CNBC’s backing, they’ll be a lot better than Geo/AAJ/ARY etc.

Channel’s called JAAG. weird name, I know.

Townhall meetings..hmmm not sure if that’s such a feasible idea with terrorists having a Khilafat agenda out to under mine democracy.

@Fraudz

and one more thought, they dont need academics to do planning. In my work, before a product is even aunched, when it is goign through gating process and just has been greenighted as a product that wil be designed, deveoped and launched, My team has aready done competitive assessment, by the time the product is ready to be aunched we know exacty how it wi be aunched, our pitch, media outets, conferences we will sponsor.

u need practitioners not academicians, so the dude who may get the nod as education minister, what woud he do how wi he do it differenty what will the costs be, what will the rollout be. Now if they dont stick 100% to the plan thats fine but you have some direction set some goals and all.

itnay achay agr hamaray politicians hotay toh kya chaiyay tha. Like they say, it’s complicated. The feudal culture, weak political organizations, weaker institutions..all have combined to create personality cults. people don’t vote for ideologies/parties. They vote for personalities. If Nawaz were to join PML-Q, he’d still win from his constituency. Only over time when these folks r given a good run [full term] will people be able to figure out how good or bad these folks really were. Once that starts to happen, people will automatically start questioning them. Elections r the best accountability. Let’s have fair elections, I say.

@Fraudz

Peope may think of planning and strategy as just some unimpementabe pie in teh sky view, those strategies are not worth the paper they are on. They have to be realistic.

anyways so if you have all these assessments education, heath, infrastructure etc etc and the cost for that, and you also know what you wil have in your pocket, then u start prioritizing things.

otherwise u make promises, without knowing if you can keep em, get in power and ppl get

hmmm pml-n has a long list of promises on it’s website:

http://www.pmln.org.pk/manifesto.php

if u have the time, check it out. some of the ideas r simple and straight forward. time to fire some emails

but I see ur point and there’s nothing much u said with which I can disagree. My only point is that all of what u wrote is not possible as long as the parliament is hijacked by military AND as long as parties keep thinking they can get into power through back channels [stand up Benazir]

@Fraudz

why would they? with bad choices and no direction or vision from these leaders why woud someone vote, on what basis.

so pp may vote based on ethnicity religion or other factors, that is teh bind support that we see. **but how can pp make an educated choice when there is nothign to realy gauge the candidates on.
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what the decision is based on then is, is one evil bigger than the other, is an unknown evil bigger than a known evil etc.

true.