Dramatic democracy of Pakistan

From the inception of Pakistan, the political system has always been a victim of dictatorship. But if we just ponder upon the passed decades and make a short ratio analysis of achievements vs. army rule to achievement vs. political regime, the graph of army rule would always be in an elevated position. Negating the fact for a moment about monetary benefits army gets in their regime one could easily go a little back to General Musharraf’s period and revise their anti Musharraf slogan, “Go Musharraf go” to , “his tenure was much better than this current political system”.

I don’t belong or assimilate to army in any sense, neither my descendants had an army background, I am stating this  as a common man, and by word of mouth from common people who used to deject General Musharraf’s tenure in the most aggressive way.

Democracy in very common language synonymies as, “equality, consensus, republic, parliamentary government and fairness. If I ask my readers to fit this current democratic government among any of the synonyms stated above, the answer to this I know, “please state the opposites of these synonyms”. This particular government performance has been so pathetic, that people frustration level has risen to the extent of destroying their resources. E.g. Current incident at Lahore against prolonged electricity load shedding, killing one and injuring several, under the headline “Power outage protest turns bloody, one killed”. (Source: Pakistan Observer, Karachi page, 27^th march 2012) Prime Minister who was in Seoul to attend a meeting on, “Nuclear Security Summit”, took notice of the situation and ordered the relevant ministry to end load shedding within 24 hours. This is just to show the public and journalists, how instant actions are being taken by the authority, but in actual this is like saying, “I don’t eat food and my belly is always full”, Wow! This action would somehow give a little ease to the dwellers of Lahore and Faisalabad for some hours but again when their center of attention gets to their routine life; it would start again with a better pace. How Electricity could be supplied without disruptions when there are no back ups, no enough dams built to generate and no other alternative like Solar or coal generated electricity, despite the fact both of the resources are found in abundance.

Our Prime Minister, President are busy in their lavish lives and they are very happy with their routine trips, no matter how many more casualties are to be given in the name of terror, electricity outage, lawlessness and joblessness. But I really wonder about some developments, which let our people believed that this government is reaching to end. I hope you got it:

1. ·         Army
2. ·         Imran Khan

The reason of stating army as the first, is on the basis of a chaos existed between Prime Minister and ISI former chief, Memo gate case when army gave instant replies to the statements made by Prime Minister , stating those statements irresponsible and unauthentic. In the light of those statements’ exchange, media and public thought its going to be the end of Government, but the cases went into the Supreme Court and are pending with no conclusions.

The second motivation was Imran Khan, who came with such a passion that within some month’s time he is going to take the place as head of the state. Now some questions must be coming in the minds of people:

1. ·         What is army doing?
2. ·         Why they are not taking any action despite the fact of economic crises, although economic crunch seems hitting across the world, but what about the pathetic governance and domestic issues?
3. ·         Does army don’t want to take the blame to discharge government and let them fail by themselves and surrender?
4. ·         If  prior is the reason then, army does not know what harm this government can bring to the state if they lasted till the next elections?
5. ·         Has Imran Khan done a deal with Government to stay out till the next elections and they will support him in the coming elections?

When the same question was asked from Imran Khan on ARY channel by Kashif Abbasi, he said, “our party is waiting for the right time and we are pretty sure that we will be elected.  We have ignited the revolution!

Now my question is where is the democracy?

Democracy is the power of people, and it is very healthy for the country’ progress but before democracy there is something which is more significant. Pakistan’s dilemma is, with diminishing law system every crime is welcomed here. And the ones who do it, they know with power, money and terror they can manipulate the system easily without even getting noticed. The reasons why army rule seems consistent and progress oriented:

1. ·        The law & order situation gets in control.
2. ·        Prices of the commodities become consistent.
3. ·        Curbs on media not to show any anti state news.
4. ·        When people don’t watch it, they are not frustrated.

I wish Pakistan before becoming a true democratic nation, first become law oriented nation. This can nearly evacuate about 50-60% of the overall issues that exist in Pakistan today.