Re: Democracy in pakistan
Just like a plane is great way to travel fast, safe and with comfort, using a plane for effective transportation can only be done by and with the help of trained, well oriented, intelligent, refined, principled, educated, responsible and disciplined individuals known as pilots. The Captain has to be the best, first officer equally good, the engineers smart and quick, the guards vigilant and intrepid, the cabin crew courteous, pleasing and cultured.
Have any of the democratic leaders of the past shown any of these signs ever...?
Unfortunate as it may be, but it's a fact, only military govts, even accompanied by their various flaws, and in particular this govt has shown the common Pakistani a glimpse of all this. I too long for the day when a leader of the people, for the people will be elected by the people, and I hope one day such a leader would not just be elected by the people, but i hope such a leader would also deliver, live up to expectations and install real democracy once and for all to shut all whining for good and i aslo hope that if such a leader failed to deliver, he would also be brought down, punished and disgraced by the people for the people in full democratic spirit.
But until such a day comes, and i'm afraid i dont see it coming soon because i dont see any such democratic person in the present political arena, we have to and must live happily and thankfully with the best version of democracy that we have, it's the closest we have ever been to empowering the masses. The present govt has for a fact given us, a common Pakistani (and I'm in Pakistan), our first experience of feeling what democracy would be like. Ironically it's a military leader who's given us all that. A point to ponder for the previous 'democratic' leaders who always took the common Pakistani into the dark ages of non-democratic existance in reality.
Then we had a label and a hoax underneath. Today we have no label and a glimpse of the real thing underneath. People just ought to realize all that.
Sure there's a lot to be desired, there's a lot of ill going on under military rule right now. Lot must be improved. I agree much must be done.
But there's no use giving a great tool such as a plane to an untrained person. He'd mess it up or kill himself. Sure democracy is a great tool. But as a nation we too need to be smart enough to use it. Rule 1 for use of democracy; literacy, not just academic but of the social, political environment, and ability to reason and freedom to decide without any pressure or something dear at stake.
The 2 biggest messiahs of democracy today; BB and Nawaz never practised what they today suddenly preach. And let's not forget, had Yahya been a bit stiff Bhutto and thus BB would never be as big a deal today. Had it not been for Zia, Nawaz would have been managing his business. These figures have only personal agendas, where were their democratic spirits then when they sought and accepted favours and pardons from the military rulers? Enemies one year and in each other's drawing rooms the next is their lifestyle. It's all a hoax. Pakistan and Pakistanis are last on their priorities. their versions of democracy too are just a joke.
so typical, you either don’t want to believe what actually goes on in Mush’s Pak, or just don’t know.