Re: Is Pakistan public enabled to distinguish and choose between right or wrong?
Every conversation in Pakistan turns into this civil-military binary debate. Every conversation, be it on corruption, rigging, poverty, mounting debt, failure of institutions turns into ‘well yes, military is bad’. Such conversation really isolates the urgency to reform. It really eases off the pressure from the current rulers who at the end of the day are answerable for governance in the democracy, not the military!
Just because military had ruled in the past, it gives no one the excuse to paddle the rhetoric that lethargic stagnation in the name of democracy is a solution. The world, in particular Pakistan’s neighbours had moved on so much that anyone who thinks Pakistan has the luxury of wasting yet another precious generation is living in fools land.
I mean yes it is a fact military is responsible for more than half of the mess in Pakistan, there must not be any more coup in Pakistan, there hasn’t been coup in last 8 years, in 2018 a general won’t be standing for elections. So now, can the debate please move forward?
How many decades to do some Pakistanis need before they can get ‘closure’ on military rules and they can finally start building narratives against bad governance and ways to improve the quality of democracy without hiding behind ‘oh well military is worse’ rhetoric?