Lahore Metro Train : Orange Line

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Re: Lahore Metro Train : Orange Line

@Jolie

Also, Pakistan was the rising economy of swinging sixties, and boom, few years later you lose half of your territory due to long neglected economic disparities. Yes we can argue endlessly that East and West Pakistan was never meant to be together, but if the issue of electoral injustice and economic deprivation was properly addressed, maybe instead of an all out war, a gradual devolution of power and slow succession would have happened which could have saved many precious lives.

So really, couple of cities of Punjab getting debt ridden single lane mass transit pretty buses cannot be an indicator of economic empowerment. That’s really naive. Your Baluchistan is still largely uninhabitable, Sindh is backward and undeveloped and so is South Punjab, KP is largely rural and war torn, Karachi is on the brink of infrastructural meltdown, so really the idea of ‘progressive’ Pakistan cannot be propagated based on prettiness of Lahore and Islamabad or the fact PMLN government a sewerage fixed in Gujranwala or Faisalabad in their 30 years of rule.

Yes Pakistan was growing the 60’s. But again, that was a short lived period. Policies are never carried forward, the institutions that a democracy requires weren’t allowed to evolve. Without those institutions, Supreme Court, Parliament etc, democracy doesn’t work and the grievances that were meant to be resolved democratically cant be resolved.

Look at this insanity… One day the countries a Democracy, the next the entire system is overturned and it becomes a Military dictatorship, then it becomes a quasi democracy, then full democracy, then Army rule… Everyone’s introducing their own amendments, handpicking their own parliament, getting rubber stamps from a compliant judiciary… Its mental. Imagine your a potential investor and you see this… You think thats a recipe for success?

And again, i disagree with you assessment of the Metro Bus. This system is one thats been tested and emulated around the world. Its the ideal for economically poor countries like Pakistan. Its transformative in many ways.
Karachi isnt richer for lack of public transport, neither is Peshawar. It needs even more then Lahore obviously.
But no progress can realized unless the democratic system is allowed to continue… Even a broken democratic system is better then none at all. It will be a slow process, but eventually political and social stability will result in growth and overall progress.