Well, best for the country is proper democracy. Unfortunately, proper democracy cannot come when people who rule are not equals (people from masses) but are unequal (Rich and powerful, landlords, Jageerdars, Vaderas, Industrialists, Gundas, Sardars, Tribal elders, etc).
Hence, proper democracy cannot come until we have certain level of education and economical well being in the country, until Pakistani masses gets out of roti, kapra and makan needs and people (unequals) do not make fool of poor masses with empty promises and propaganda, using all sort of media, so that they can loot and plunder.
Democracy is not just election. Democracy does not mean equality of conditions (all have equal wealth) as that is theoretical Communism. Democracy means a condition where everyone have equal opportunity, where hard work and merit pays and where people are not deprived of opportunity on basis of family background, family status, or financial standing. Democracy means equals ruling (or governing) equals.
We cannot expect democratic rule from people who are unequals. Pakistani democracy is sham democracy. In Pakistan, thugs (Nawaz and Zardari) are taking illusive poor Pakistani masses on ride. Worse is that, in Pakistani farce democracy people vote because they are in control of thugs (unequals) for their livelihood ... or are completely ignorant of the facts as Allah has made them human but they have made themselves Zombies and vote without thinking.
If one wants to see the inequality of people in Pakistani democracy, one can see that in PPP where workers who spent their entire life working and struggling for PPP, even people like Amin Fahim who struggled throughout for PPP, helped Z A Bhutto into politics, even declined Prime Minister slot in 2002 for party, is parliamentary leader of PPP, still he is not equal to Zardari or even Bilawal Zardari who did not even spent a single day struggling for PPP. This is called Pakistani democracy ... a family business for looting, plundering and making fool of masses.
Now, if you want me to expect any good from these thugs, than I am sorry as that would be expecting impossible. It is not like military general who in the end come from equals and may give what one can expect from equals ... and I think that all four generals who ruled Pakistan tried what Pakistanis could expect from democracy, some (like Musharraf) more successfully than others.
Excellent post
Perhaps that’s why people who care about and understand what actually democracy is supported Pres. Musharraf. A lot needs to be done before Pakistanis can benefit a genuine democracy.