Re: Musharraf limo ambushed in London
The reason you dont understand it is because people are NOT lying… Im not talking about comparative corruption. NS and BB may very well have been more corrupt.. But there is far more complexity to the issue then just numbers.
BB and NS also had to contend with their govts being undermined by the Army, ISI and political rivals…
BB and NS also didnt have the luxury of having Billions being given to them by the Americans..
This has nothing to do with propaganda…
A democracy will be corrupt, especially in Pakistan, but that is because it is evolving..
The Army govt, is corrupt aswell, but the nature of their insitution is such that their corruption is very different…
Comapring democratically elected govts with Military dictatorships isnt as straight foward as just throwing out numbers…
These are two very different insitutions, run in very different ways under very different circumstances.
Its enough to write a thesis paper on..
In the end, the point that seems to elude you is that ultimately, a democratic govt is answerable to the people… If we had an independant judiciary, which we had until Mushrafs emergency, we could have a strong democratic insitutions providing checks and balances.
A military dictatorship, is not answerable to anyone…
So while corruption in a Democratic govt can be controled through the election process, the corruption within a dictatorship is without any control and can never be contained.