Re: Time to abolish Primer Minister's role: President should go to people for vote
This formula is valid. Only if there was 1000 feet high wall around Pakistan, and we had oh! about 100 years.
The problem is that we like any nation are burdened with our own history, and our own stigmas, and our own shortcomings.
Think about Pakistan as a boat carrying 160~165 million people.
In that scenario, Pakistanis want their boat captain(s) to control the boat through troubled waters with minimum instability.
Problem with "give poltikos a chance to evolve" is that boat starts going like a roller coaster as soon as a politiko gets the charge.
We had big-mouth ZAB, to BB, to NS who even after getting more than one chances took the boat on a horribly unstable ride.
Democracy my friend evolves from tolerance! That is ruling party is tolerant of the opposition, and the opposition is tolerant of the ruling party.
And all these parties are tolerant of non-political entities such as bureaucracy and military.
In our case, the fundamental seed of democracy that is "tolerance" is badly missing and that is why democracy will not evolve no matter how long you wait.
Remember you can't organize a box of different colored balls by simply shaking it. The same way you can just establish a working democratic system by praying for it.
There is no other choice... Military dictatorship and one man rule will never allow the boat to continue... The ride might not be smooth under democracy, but atleast the boat wont turn over.
One of the reasons ofcourse that democracy has been so rough in Pak is BECAUSE it isnt allowed to evolve.. So each time a democratic civilian govt comes in, it is made to start from scratch and everything is stacked against it...
The military and the inteligence groups are constantly meddling with the workings of the govt, which adds to the instability...
Either way, point in the end is that Pak can only survive under a democracy... Military dictatorhsip will never work, it never brings stability... Once