Re: Why do educated and intelligent Pakistanis support dictatorship over democracy?
where is spock?..Love to read his posts!!..
Re: Why do educated and intelligent Pakistanis support dictatorship over democracy?
where is spock?..Love to read his posts!!..
He along with another x number of ppl has been Exiled.
Re: Why do educated and intelligent Pakistanis support dictatorship over democracy?
^ Musharraf has plenty of flaws no doubt. Unfortunately, I think he's also more capable than the buffoons any of the major political parties will run...for me its really just an issue of choosing the lesser of two evils. I don't want to see the country back to the way it was 15 years ago, all for the principle of supporting democracy...
I understand what you mean for Pakistan but unfortunately such "good will"s don't go too far, they die with the person's ouster from the post. We need to support setting up of a system. We need to push political parties to reform. In past we didn't have all these TV/media channels, now that we have them and judiciary is (supposedly) free we are now relatively better equipped to question politicians when they do wrong and criticize them.
I am more than confident that the very same media who is criticizing Musharraf will very likely critcize future governments as well, there will be some sort of check.
One big problem of supporting Musharraf is that we are only extending "adhocism", no one is pushing him to setup system to ensure check-n-balance of future governments and he is not going to do it on his own as he is trying to secure his own place.
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As far as the article is concerned, its not available for free online...I have a pdf, but I don't see a way to attach it
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You could atleast give website's name.
Re: Why do educated and intelligent Pakistanis support dictatorship over democracy?
here…i found a free link to the article in google books…
Re: Why do educated and intelligent Pakistanis support dictatorship over democracy?
Its actually the other way round - Its the uneducated and dumb people who support dictatorship over democracy!
Re: Why do educated and intelligent Pakistanis support dictatorship over democracy?
There is no doubt that nationalisation created many jobs. The problem is that under Bhutto's nationalisation program, companies took on so many employees that they were no longer profitable. State-owned companies had to be kept afloat with taxpayer money. Knowing that there would always be government bailouts, many of these companies then became poorly run (rendered worse by incompetent management being installed by the government as political payoffs).
Ultimately state owned companies become little more than a social welfare system, that stifle the environment for private competition that could provide better services for consumers.
Where private competition exists, state owned business lose consumers, and thus income, and thus become an even bigger burden on taxpayers.
Matlab ke, the more tax you pay the more burden on the taxpayer. So that you feel Pakistanis are being financially raped by the present government!? Therefore cutting on tax should be the solution of tomorrow. Is that what you are suggesting?