Re: Recent violence and Foreign Investment [split from: Pakistan plans all-out war]
not when these terrorist acts are going to scare away foreign investors which can help the poor and develop the economy
Here's a free Economics 101 lesson for you:
Economic Growth (fdi, reserves) does not mean Economic Development (income parity, declining poverty) until and unless there's favorable structural change. There's no structural change in Pakistan.
Thank me later.
Re: Recent violence and Foreign Investment [split from: Pakistan plans all-out war]
Farid Bhai, it is good to see that you agree that BB and Musharaf getting together is a good thing for Pakistani interest. :k:
God Bless President Musharaf for such forward thinking.
God Bless Pakistan. 
Re: Recent violence and Foreign Investment [split from: Pakistan plans all-out war]
No it was not during ZAB era. People voted him out of shear love for him. Still people can die for him. It was NS who first introduced purchasing of votes, kidnapping all Mps to Changa Manga in a bus. Get your record corrected.
But Benazir did buy votes. Look my point is simple. Just being elected to office in a vote does not make a system democratic. There are many other factors: The need for a healthy and strong opposition is one, a change of leadership is another. There is a good 20 point list that covers various aspects for what constitutes a democracy.
Nehru by 1950 standards was a democratically elected leader. But was India truly a democracy for those 35 years? Its questionable. In the 1980s and 1990s, India showed for certain it had democratic institutions due to the massive change in power and leadership.
Re: Recent violence and Foreign Investment [split from: Pakistan plans all-out war]
May be for some of seats. Not for all. Again this tradition was started by NS, followed by others. In all the elections though she did not win majority of seats, still number of votes had always been much higher than the other parties. So people actually liked her and wanted her back to lead.
From your posts, you never like democratic form of government. What kind of system you want? I will not answer to your posts any further unless you reveal what do you want?
Re: Recent violence and Foreign Investment [split from: Pakistan plans all-out war]
Farid please do not confuse the fact that I consider the Bhutto family a stain on the history of Pakistan as anti-democractic. As for what form of government - I would like a direct representation based on a parliamentary system. Examples? The Swiss and German systems.
In Switzerland all major decisions are taken by a referendum with the people. Deciding to join the EU, every single person in Switzerland had the right to vote on the matter. I am sick and tired of single families deciding the fate of Pakistan. That is why I want direct representation.
Parliamentary in the form that government must be formed through coalitions and between various parties. No heavy mandates like Nawaz Sharif had. The Germans have it in the most ideal manner. There are 4 major parties which switch between the 4 to form government, 2 in government and 2 in opposition with a very large independent elected base.
I want a system in Pakistan where the PPP or PML can not form governments, provincial or nation without at least 2 or 3 other parties being involved.
You say I never liked democracy. Well if you call the single family dynasty rule in Pakistan, democracy, then yes I do not like it one bit at all. I want the Pakistani people to vote and decide on matters of importance. I do not want people who can't even read and write in our provincial legislatures.
I do not want legacies of nepotism deciding our fate.