Re: Is Pakistan public enabled to distinguish and choose between right or wrong?
We have (after embellishing numbers) around 40%-45% literacy in Pakistan (the lowest in South Asia). Add to that the fact that we have had several interruptions in democracy, our population has never really had a true taste of what it feels like to be in power. We choose candidates based on what our waderas, chaudhrys, maliks and sharifs tell us. The small segment that votes with its mind is quickly brushed aside as the segment that wants to ‘derail democracy’.
India has a 75%+ literacy rate. They have had consistent democracy since inception so that helps. People havent seen any other form of govt, and arent interested in one either.