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Pakistan came into being before 60
year almost but still endeavoring to
develop the institution of politics in its
society. The founding father of this
country, Mr. Jinnah, achieved this
country democratically and
constitutionally. Unfortunately destiny
did not give enough time to him to
draw the socio economic, religious
and political map of newly born state.
During early 21 years of its life - 1947
to 1969 - Pakistan was governed by
civil military bureucracy under
oligarchic and authoritarian traditions.
This was first chapter of dictatorship.
Second and third one were during
1979 to 1988 and 1999 to 2007
under military dictators.
First democratic election held in 1970
and a uninanimous constitution was
passed by parliament in 1973 in
which, democratic parliamentary
government system was introduced.
So here started first democratic phase
(1970 1979) under the inspiring
leadership of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
Second and third phases of democracy
were between 1988 to 1999 and
2007 to the present date. So
democratic era in Pakistan is almost
24 years. During this time, elected
leaders proved themselves as a
comprehensive failure and they were
and they are failed to deliver to the
public. Why democratic traditions are
not developed in Pakistan up till now?
What were and what are the major
causes behind failure of democracy
here? Now I will explain it.
Causes of failure of democracy in
Pakistan lies in our socio - political
system. Feudalism, illiterate and
apathetic people, self imposed
leaders and inherited politics are a few
salient features of this system. It's a
feudal state where we are living and
most of our political leaders are just
feudal lords and they and have
assumed and established their identity
as political leaders. Feudalism has
been leading towards the traditions of
inherited politics as well in this
country. In this feudal culture, millions
of people are landless and illiterate
peasants and their social status is not
more than a slave. In addition to this,
such landless peasants community is
living in acute poverty. Auctoritas of
this community is not even accordance
with the minimum standards of human
rights. How can such impoverished,
deprived and economically
marginalized peasants community can
express their will freely in a
democratic process? The essence of
democracy lies in the general will of
the public. So during election, such
community is supposed to express the
will of the feudal lords. May be due to
their lack of knowledge or the fear of
the landlord, landless peasants do so.
In such circumstances, can we expect
from landless rural peasants that they
are able to evaluate the credibility of
their so called leaders and the
manifesto of political parties before
voting? I don't think so they are able
to do this. Almost 70% population of
Pakistan leading life in such feudal and
rural traditions. Consequently, general
election becomes a selection of a few
based upon the will of a few who are
powerful and leading a privileged life.
In this way, democracy has been
reduced to oligarchy and aristocracy in
our country.
In our democratic set up, our elected
leaders even visit their constituencies
for a for a few times as they have no
any concern with the welfare of the
deprived communities. As a result,
firstly they don't want to know about
community problems at grass root
level and secondly, they are unable to
find out solutions of them.
So far as illiteracy is concerned, it is
also a major root cause behind the
failure of democracy in Pakistan.
Literacy is the very first and the most
important pre requisite for
democracy. Accordingly the Census of
1998, literacy rate of Pakistan was
43.92%.and literacy rate among rural
community of Pakistan was 33.64% in
1998. But these are official and
manipulated statistics which are
unable to paint the real picture of our
population. Actual literacy rate is even
below than these figures particularly in
rural areas. So maximum part of our
population is still suffering in the
vicious cycle of illiteracy and they are
unable to contribute anything towards
the development of Pakistan. Illiteracy
also leads to poverty. An illiterate and
economically impoverished community
has only concern with bread and butter
and they cannot comprehend and
follow the true spirit of democracy. As
a result, such community gives guns in
the hands of monkeys by electing
irrelevant persons who are not
competent enough to cope with the
contemporary national and
international challenges. On the other
hand, our leaders are always busy in
pillaging the national resources and
throwing dust into eyes of ignorant
and slave people. Another beautiful
manifestation of illiteracy is that most
of our politicians contest election on
the base of fake degrees. In such
morally corrupt and illiterate nation,
how democracy can flourish and
become functional here?
I discussed two major causes of failure
of democracy in Pakistan. So far as
current democratic government is
concerned, it has been failed
comprehensively to deliver as well.
Democracy is here now but in a failed
and a flopped form. It has become just
a slogan of exploitation in Pakistan and
nothing else. A democratic
government is required to do provide
justice, social welfare and security to
the public. But in the present setup,
government has not perceived or
made any such integrated package for
the nation. On the other hand,
corruption and embezzlement are in
full swing now. There is no security for
the citizens and people are being killed
like rats on the name of target killing.
Suicide due to poverty and
unemployment has become so
common now. Now in 2011, in
Pakistan, maximum population
comprising youth. But there is no jobs
and employment for them and they
are being underutilized. The
sovereignty of our country and land
has been simply auctioned to the Uncle
Sam and Pakistan has been reduced to
a colony of Ammerica. In such a way,
all the state departments and
institutions have been failed from
bottom to top. When Pakistani public
is fed up with the governance of
corrupt democratic government, then
sometimes they propagate that there
was enough prosperity during previous
military regimes and there is no doubt,
military coups of the past were the
consequence of failed democratic
governments.
But issue is that our democratic rulers
are not divine and we as a nation elect
them. How we can challenge their
aunthticity? Yes we cannot and they
are our representatives. When general
public will be socially impoverished,
deprived and illiterate, it will produce
incompetent, opportunist and corrupt
leadership. Such leaders just exploit
people and they secure their vote bank
on the name of democracy. Our
leaders assert that they are for the
people but actually, they entertain
their vested interest only. Provision of
social welfare, education and justice is
not their priorities. The priorities of our
gluttonous leadership are to secure
Swiss Bank Accounts, flats in London
and Saray Mahal only. Unfortunately
such attitude has become modus
operandi of our politicians.
At the end, I want to give some
recommendations and accoutrements
which are inevitable to make
democracy a successful saga in
Pakistan and to strengthen the
fraternity of the nation in general.
Sweatshops of feudalism should be
closed and traditions of inherited
politics must be abolished. Education
and social liberty should be given to
the all nation in general and to the
rural community in particular. There
should be social equality, justice and
rule of law across the country.
Irrespective of their social status and
level of wealth, all the citizens should
be considered equally accountable of
their deeds. Youth must be promoted
and young, energetic and educated
people should be encouraged in every
sphere of life. When our nation will be
literate and social freedom will be
there, then genuine and competent
leadership will emerge from bottom of
our society and it will focus on the
social welfare and security of general
public and sovereignty of our land. A
successful execution of all these
pragmatic measures may can lead
towards a strong democratic Pakistan
in true sense and this task is not
insurmountable. Otherwise game of
Chess between politicians and Military
will continue as it was in the past.
---------- Post added at 03:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:20 PM ----------
Failure of Democracy in Pakistan: Causes and Solution - PakTribune
year almost but still endeavoring to
develop the institution of politics in its
society. The founding father of this
country, Mr. Jinnah, achieved this
country democratically and
constitutionally. Unfortunately destiny
did not give enough time to him to
draw the socio economic, religious
and political map of newly born state.
During early 21 years of its life - 1947
to 1969 - Pakistan was governed by
civil military bureucracy under
oligarchic and authoritarian traditions.
This was first chapter of dictatorship.
Second and third one were during
1979 to 1988 and 1999 to 2007
under military dictators.
First democratic election held in 1970
and a uninanimous constitution was
passed by parliament in 1973 in
which, democratic parliamentary
government system was introduced.
So here started first democratic phase
(1970 1979) under the inspiring
leadership of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
Second and third phases of democracy
were between 1988 to 1999 and
2007 to the present date. So
democratic era in Pakistan is almost
24 years. During this time, elected
leaders proved themselves as a
comprehensive failure and they were
and they are failed to deliver to the
public. Why democratic traditions are
not developed in Pakistan up till now?
What were and what are the major
causes behind failure of democracy
here? Now I will explain it.
Causes of failure of democracy in
Pakistan lies in our socio - political
system. Feudalism, illiterate and
apathetic people, self imposed
leaders and inherited politics are a few
salient features of this system. It's a
feudal state where we are living and
most of our political leaders are just
feudal lords and they and have
assumed and established their identity
as political leaders. Feudalism has
been leading towards the traditions of
inherited politics as well in this
country. In this feudal culture, millions
of people are landless and illiterate
peasants and their social status is not
more than a slave. In addition to this,
such landless peasants community is
living in acute poverty. Auctoritas of
this community is not even accordance
with the minimum standards of human
rights. How can such impoverished,
deprived and economically
marginalized peasants community can
express their will freely in a
democratic process? The essence of
democracy lies in the general will of
the public. So during election, such
community is supposed to express the
will of the feudal lords. May be due to
their lack of knowledge or the fear of
the landlord, landless peasants do so.
In such circumstances, can we expect
from landless rural peasants that they
are able to evaluate the credibility of
their so called leaders and the
manifesto of political parties before
voting? I don't think so they are able
to do this. Almost 70% population of
Pakistan leading life in such feudal and
rural traditions. Consequently, general
election becomes a selection of a few
based upon the will of a few who are
powerful and leading a privileged life.
In this way, democracy has been
reduced to oligarchy and aristocracy in
our country.
In our democratic set up, our elected
leaders even visit their constituencies
for a for a few times as they have no
any concern with the welfare of the
deprived communities. As a result,
firstly they don't want to know about
community problems at grass root
level and secondly, they are unable to
find out solutions of them.
So far as illiteracy is concerned, it is
also a major root cause behind the
failure of democracy in Pakistan.
Literacy is the very first and the most
important pre requisite for
democracy. Accordingly the Census of
1998, literacy rate of Pakistan was
43.92%.and literacy rate among rural
community of Pakistan was 33.64% in
1998. But these are official and
manipulated statistics which are
unable to paint the real picture of our
population. Actual literacy rate is even
below than these figures particularly in
rural areas. So maximum part of our
population is still suffering in the
vicious cycle of illiteracy and they are
unable to contribute anything towards
the development of Pakistan. Illiteracy
also leads to poverty. An illiterate and
economically impoverished community
has only concern with bread and butter
and they cannot comprehend and
follow the true spirit of democracy. As
a result, such community gives guns in
the hands of monkeys by electing
irrelevant persons who are not
competent enough to cope with the
contemporary national and
international challenges. On the other
hand, our leaders are always busy in
pillaging the national resources and
throwing dust into eyes of ignorant
and slave people. Another beautiful
manifestation of illiteracy is that most
of our politicians contest election on
the base of fake degrees. In such
morally corrupt and illiterate nation,
how democracy can flourish and
become functional here?
I discussed two major causes of failure
of democracy in Pakistan. So far as
current democratic government is
concerned, it has been failed
comprehensively to deliver as well.
Democracy is here now but in a failed
and a flopped form. It has become just
a slogan of exploitation in Pakistan and
nothing else. A democratic
government is required to do provide
justice, social welfare and security to
the public. But in the present setup,
government has not perceived or
made any such integrated package for
the nation. On the other hand,
corruption and embezzlement are in
full swing now. There is no security for
the citizens and people are being killed
like rats on the name of target killing.
Suicide due to poverty and
unemployment has become so
common now. Now in 2011, in
Pakistan, maximum population
comprising youth. But there is no jobs
and employment for them and they
are being underutilized. The
sovereignty of our country and land
has been simply auctioned to the Uncle
Sam and Pakistan has been reduced to
a colony of Ammerica. In such a way,
all the state departments and
institutions have been failed from
bottom to top. When Pakistani public
is fed up with the governance of
corrupt democratic government, then
sometimes they propagate that there
was enough prosperity during previous
military regimes and there is no doubt,
military coups of the past were the
consequence of failed democratic
governments.
But issue is that our democratic rulers
are not divine and we as a nation elect
them. How we can challenge their
aunthticity? Yes we cannot and they
are our representatives. When general
public will be socially impoverished,
deprived and illiterate, it will produce
incompetent, opportunist and corrupt
leadership. Such leaders just exploit
people and they secure their vote bank
on the name of democracy. Our
leaders assert that they are for the
people but actually, they entertain
their vested interest only. Provision of
social welfare, education and justice is
not their priorities. The priorities of our
gluttonous leadership are to secure
Swiss Bank Accounts, flats in London
and Saray Mahal only. Unfortunately
such attitude has become modus
operandi of our politicians.
At the end, I want to give some
recommendations and accoutrements
which are inevitable to make
democracy a successful saga in
Pakistan and to strengthen the
fraternity of the nation in general.
Sweatshops of feudalism should be
closed and traditions of inherited
politics must be abolished. Education
and social liberty should be given to
the all nation in general and to the
rural community in particular. There
should be social equality, justice and
rule of law across the country.
Irrespective of their social status and
level of wealth, all the citizens should
be considered equally accountable of
their deeds. Youth must be promoted
and young, energetic and educated
people should be encouraged in every
sphere of life. When our nation will be
literate and social freedom will be
there, then genuine and competent
leadership will emerge from bottom of
our society and it will focus on the
social welfare and security of general
public and sovereignty of our land. A
successful execution of all these
pragmatic measures may can lead
towards a strong democratic Pakistan
in true sense and this task is not
insurmountable. Otherwise game of
Chess between politicians and Military
will continue as it was in the past.
---------- Post added at 03:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:20 PM ----------
Failure of Democracy in Pakistan: Causes and Solution - PakTribune
