Beats me...I didnt vote for them nor do I cheer everytime steel from their mills are used to "develop" the nation by outsourcing projects to their friends!
At least Pakistan is being developed.
It should not matter if its their friends or family. Only matter should be cost. You're being bias from point 1 by bringing "friends" and "[private) steel mills," instead of pointing finger at corruption.
Looks like you have made up your mind. Your primary concern isn't corruption, but family business.
I tiny list of rules that the majority of developed nations on earth fit into so very naturally and so very easily. Why can't Pakistan?
Now, I don't take the word 'easily' lightly, it's easy for them now because they all went through hell and back to get it where it is today.
But once the base is established, and refined and stability is derived from it, EVERYTHING, every arbitrary detail from there on is decided by the nation. Whether your secular or religious, whether you're socialist or capitalist, whether your socially liberal or conservative. Those are the parts that are the end goal. Democracy is just a means. And in my view the most proven and successful means.
Leaders will only ever be as good as their people and as their people make them to be.
NO man on earth will save Pakistanis from the hell they've created, only they themselves can.
When people in the west progress, they do so as nations, as a people who are driving their own future, not off the back of a messianic leader.
If Pakistanis want things to change, you get up and make them happen. And if the wrong people keep getting power, it will hurt those down below and force them to change the system themselves, and that is long lasting and effective change, it's the way the refinement process of democracy works.
It's a system that's barely 7 years old, you can't expect it to run like the big boys that have been going for decades and centuries.
It does indeed, OP and people who support his party are a fine, fine example.
PPP could have done better if Benazir was there and people wouldn't die for Iftikhar Chaudary (Musharraf and Zardari were against him, among others, but people would see Pakistan collapse at the cost of bringing back the most political judge in Pakistan's history). Parties are not destroying pakistan. The entire nation, including every institution (army supporting good taliban?), went for a collapse.
We're recovering now and it will get better in the next decade or so. The big boys didn't have technology, massive media and public awareness as we do now. Imagine if US had rigging in 1800s-1900s, it'd be hard to combat it. But we can fix it in two elections (2013/2018). And we will be better than big boys considering our major parties are dying and being replaced (PPP/MQM/PMLQ), whereas in the US, you won't see republican and democrat going away and in Canada, we have NDP/liberals and PC.
As they say, Pakistan is unpredictable. I could be wrong, but the way I see it, 2018 could be a real change and 2023 being an even bigger one itself. Meanwhile US will be stuck with same old parties and same for other countries. Beside, Imran Nawaz and all these "faces" of parties will be too old to govern. When faces fade, parties fade.
Finally, in Pakistan, parties develop based on its leader. As all these 80s and 90s leader fade way, again so will parties, we're in for a real change.
Edit: Actually forgot to add, the Pakistanis themselves are more to blame than democracy itself. They think its their constitutional right to steal electricity, burn public/private property, take law in hand, keep illegal weapons, slack off at work (lets go for tea, lets go for lunch, lets leave early, oh this customer comes so bring tea and have nice talk for 30 mins until another customer comes), ask others for help (pls send money my son needs laptop and even though I got multiple houses and shops, you guys are rich).
I mean almost the entire pakistan population is one colossal mess. Being raised in Pakistan, I saw it all and I'm surprised Pakistan fares better than African nations. They lack what we've, yet we prefer to live in stone age and like stone agers.