Is Pakistan public enabled to distinguish and choose between right or wrong?

[Jolie]

Re: Is Pakistan public enabled to distinguish and choose between right or wrong?

@Silaaj

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.

Not to mention, India’s electoral system is lot stronger than Pakistan’s. Pakistan’s democracy is fundamentally inferior to India if you do system by system analysis. They have a very strong Election Commission followed by a comprehensive local government system operating since 1957.

Democracy works in India because the idea of of decentralisation and provisional autonomy is a binding force to keep such an incredibly diverse and pluralistic country together. In Pakistan, your democracy begins and finishes in Punjab.

Pakistan is a right wing oligarchy whereas India is intrinsically a socialist democracy.

Democracy can work in Israel, democracy can work in India, but it is no coincidence that all Muslim countries have made a royal mess out of the concept of democracy. It’s a totally alien concept for them, not just in practice, but in knowledge and spirit.