Democracy is supposed to be known as a self-correcting
system. Many of my elders have often lectured me that as long as you let the
government change hands in Pakistan and do not let the army intervene, Pakistan
will prosper.
After 21 years of hoping, praying and dreaming for a change,
Pakistan's youth is at its peak of impatience. Many of them have called
democracy unfitting for such a corrupt nation. Some are even willing to abolish
the electoral systems temporarily and surrender to the Army. Others claim that
only the Army can help this forsaken land.
Indeed, the reign of the Army is interlinked with rises in
GDP. Unfortunately the praise is largely only from foreign nations. A prime
example is that of Zia-ul-Haq's reign when Pakistan received great amounts of
aid from the States. However, locally, Zia is known to be one of the most
notorious leaders of Pakistan.
The question then remains, should Pakistan’s youth continue
to support an inadequate democracy or finally voice its support for a wagering Army?
3 comments:
Pakistan's youth should support democracy not the inadequate democracy because inadequate democracy is only harming us. We should still support and work for the real democracy to be in practice. Dictatorship is never and never will be the solution of the problems present in Pakistan because democracy in its true meaning is the voice and face of people and dictatorship is only the face and voice of itself. Dictators can never understand people and their problems.They do not come from the votes of people so they do not understand the importance of people and also they have specific set of mind and they follow it without thinking whether its right or wrong. Though in the time of Zia -ul-Haq Pakistan's GDP did rise but he also created mujahedein. A problem from which we are still unable to get ourselves out of it.
I think that instead of the two options presented by the writer in the above blog post,it is essential that the youth of Pakistan should work on strengthening the democratic process in Pakistan to make it fairer and more transparent.A few ways in which the youth could potentially do this is by increasing their own political participation,developing ground root political movements,running awareness campaigns and social media activism etc.The army is not a viable option as a dictator imposes a totalitarian mindset on people to consolidate his/her power for e.g.Zia ul Haq and his radical Islamisation policies.
The two alternatives presented at the end seem somewhat illogical. I agree that democracy seems to be the wrong choice for a corrupt country, but does that necessarily mean that we have to give up on the hope of proper democracy? Is the army all we have left? I don't think that is a long term solution, instead our attention should be towards building a real democracy.
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