Re: Musharraf will not be in office by this time next year.
I was hoping I would not have to explain it, but since we see everything in black and white, here goes.
I had stated by the people, for the people and of the people. That is the ideal. while there is no such thing as a perfect democracy in action but on a continuum of perfect to absolutely horrid, our democractic govts tend to lean on the absolute horrid extreme.
I am not thinking of a black and whote perfect democracy verss crappy sham democracy, but many shades of grey, and even if there is no example of shining bright white democracy in the world there are plenty of off whites, that are more true to the priniples of "by the people, for the people, of the people" then the ones that tend to fall in the charcoal grey scale.
so dont give me charcoal grey again, lets atleast go for a heather grey for now. some thing that is significantly truer to the concept than what we had in past.
I know what you mean. Thanks for clarifying.
When you wrote a one liner I had to respond accordingly since your post did not explain if you knew there were many shades of grey before it gets real black.
Coming to topic: Pakistan has better democracy ( interm of freedom of speech) under Musharraf than any other military rulers before his time. Its my opinion based on my observation.
Media has many outlets now than before. We have more channels than before and everyone except few is SPECIALIZING as a moderator of talk show bringing people on TV talking on social, cultural, religious or political issues. Many of these so called experts talk plain BS on TV and get away with it.
Media is actually gone wild at times and free to present opposite views.
(I think media in Pakistan needs control in many many fronts which I can discuss in any other place appropriate for it).
People like Imran Khan as one man party comes on TV and talks nonsense on TV but still allowed to be on the media.
What more one can ask?
We have political parties running amock everywhere and making a huge deal of anything which could possibly be against the government and creating a chaos.
These parties have specialized in making the life of common man miserable (blocking roads, closing shops, strikes and walking on streets for no real reason at all) and they do not care at all for the poor and underpriveliged and even for their own children and generation being raised in the country which has so many basic problems!!!!!
They would rather make a big deal of a chief justice issue but not care of common man peoblem like lack of good roads, medical facility or health care, clean water, law and order sitution like robbery, fast delivery of postage, clean bills for utilities, even lack of electricity enough to protest and join the people on street for that cause! How many protests?
How many proposals are forwarded to the speaker by opposition for these purposes instead of sending a reference against the Prime Minister? Not that I care about the PM.
Just think for a few second guys.
I am also by no means a FAN of Musharraf or any army general ruling the country appointed and selected by someone U-KNOW-WHO..........but his grey shade is lot closer to white than others.