No offence meant but just want to ask Pakistani members here , do you guys actually look up and see the PA as a role model, and if so why?
Sir my answer might be a bit different from what other members have to say. Majority of Pakistanis, no matter weather right or left wing, conservative or liberal , look up to the army as a role model, the following are the reasons.
1) Fighting terrorists, the civilian judiciary and govt has always given in to the extremists, sometimes in the name of dialogue and sometimes out of fear, today they are in this fight against terror cuz of pressure from Army.
2) Army is responsible for Construction of Infrastructure (Roads, electricity, schools, technical colleges, universities, cadet colleges) in areas like FATA, remote areas of Balochistan, where govt has failed to provide these basic facilities to people.
3) If you look at the previous trends, Pakistan has performed economically well in military regimes as compared to civilian regimes, Ayub era made Pak a model for developing countries declared by UN, even South Korean experts used to come to see the economic plan implemented by Ayub and wanted to adopt it, Musharraf era increased the GDP growth rate to 8%, when Nawaz left in 1999, Pak's reserves were 300 mill, under Mushi they increased to 13 billion.
4) Army is generally seen a professional and a proper institution where there is no corruption and the curse of “safarish” doesn’t exist, all the other governmental institutions are corrupt and people never wanted to be associated to politics, until recently when Imran Khan stepped in , before that politics was a corrupt man’s domain, that is why hands down 99% Pakistanis will choose military dictators over politicians.
