Potential is useless until it is tapped. Pakistan’s most major problem is the utter lack of any real system. The rich and the powerful have the capability to override anything and anyone. The Army lives in its own world and the government seems almost helpless in the face of relentless corruption and internal disturbances. Again if you really need to study why Pakistan is that way it is today you need to go back to 1947.
Jinnah was a true visionary and you cannot deny that. He has drawn out many plans in regards to Pakistan but Pakistan’s biggest misfortune was his early death. He left a nation without any vision or visionary and then it was like a free cake for whoever to grab. It was only during the very short period of Jinnah when Pakistan saw stability in its governance and a prosperity in the geo-political sense. After his death, the country totally lost track and military coup’s one after the other wrecked the civilian infrastructure of the country, which is key in the success of any nation. The wars of 1965 and 71 again pushed the state back another 10 years. Forward to 1990 and you can put India and Pakistan almost at the same level. India faced a huge balance of payment crises and could have followed a path where it could have relied on external loans to ensure survival but the visionary thinking of Manmohan Singh saved India from disaster. Pakistan needs a person like him who can remodel its economy, governmental structures and limit the hold of the army over the country.
Pakistan has potential for more, but just as Mastan Khan said its already on the limits of its strength and any more stress on it could lead to a disaster. A nation is not identified by its potential but by its achievements. Sadly there is very little Pakistani’s can relate to in terms of the achievements of their nation. The youth is the key but sadly even they are being taken on the wrong path by many.
You summed it perfectly. Indeed Mr Jinnah was a true
visionary, Situation would have been lot better if there were more
leaders of his caliber to rule Pakistan. In that sense I feel India is lucky,
even though corruption and other serious issues it produced
underrated leaders like Mr Manmohan Singh and P.Chidambaram who
are dedicated for their work.
In spite of all loopholes situation is certainly improving I can
give you example of Maharashtra state which have 80 million
population. There is strong campaign on introducing primary
education to all children. I can give you my personal experience while
doing industrial training in Koyna Power plant which produces
2000MW electricity and have 100 TMC water storage capacity I met
my friends father who works as a Educational officer of Tehsil, He
invited me to come with his colleagues to site where proposal was to
start primary school for merely 3 to 4 families which having merely 6
student from 1st to 4th standard. We went there forest like area
which was from 2 hours distance from boat. Those are actually
displaced families when dam was built and was leaving there while
refusing to get displaced to suitable site due to they do agriculture in
that area. After analyzing situation school was approved which
started in one home temporary for some month till school building
can be built. Government provided them one teacher whose monthly
payment is between 20000 to 25000 RS monthly for teaching only 6
student .
So I feel like this investment in education is very key for
long term future. I hope Pakistan can do it within it's cultural values
and going progress in near future. Also India must keep good work
and need to improve quality of higher education overall plus need to
pay special attention towards lower income groups who lives
nomadic life and brought them into main stream.