BSc BA ADP FSc ICS FA ICom English Essay How to Build a Democratic Pakistan / Democracy in Pakistan / Democracy: The Only Way Forward in the Contemporary World With Outline & Quotations Essay Notes Online Taleem Ilmi Hub
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1. Introduction
- What is meant by democracy?
2. Pakistani Political scenario in the past
3. Present democratic situation in Pakistan and its reasons
4. Issues related with democracy
5. How to develop strong democratic roots in Pakistan?
6. Conclusion
ESSAY:
"Democracy" is a political ideology. It is derived from two Greek words, "demos" means people or public or the proletariats and "kratia" which means to rule or exercise power. So, in simple words, "Democracy" means a form of rule by the people. In economic terms, it is a rule by the people and for the people.
It is a very sad fact that Pakistan has not yet tasted the fruit of true democracy since it's inception as compared to his close neighbour like India. Pakistan went through a long period of precarious and uncertain democracy. During the last 65 years Pakistan could not be able to achieve a sustained period of democracy either due to military take-over or shaky democratic roots.
The progress of democracy in Pakistan has been most irregular and unsatisfactory for several different reasons. Firstly, the successful working of the democracy anywhere is possible when the people, as a whole, are educated and well-informed. It is a most ugly fact our social life that more than 80% of our people are either thoroughly illiterate or only some of them know how to write their names or how to write the basic ABC. They do not understand what is happening around in the country or the world. They cannot vote intelligently at all. Then what is the sue of elections in which the people are expected to elect the bureaucrats most suitable candidates to the assemblies after reading or discussing their programmes (manifestoes).
Secondly, in Pakistan the existence of the formidable (difficult to defeat or deal with) "zamindari" or feudal system allowed the big landlords to control and direct the lives of millions of farm labourers and farmers working under them. These labourers and petty farmer (peasants) and their families still constitute the majority of the country's total population and they are all most all illiterate and most backward. Now, the big "zarnindars " or feudal lords do not want these backward land workers to get educated and to rise up socially. The stage for the enactment of the tragedy of democracy in Pakistan was prepared by the first group of political leaders, surrounding and misguiding the Quaid-e-Azam. They consolidated themselves after his death. They took this promising country of poor people as their own landholding. Then the tragedy of democracy was enacted by "jagirdars", industrial lords and military dictators in which the common people were dumb spectators all the time sitting outside the political arena.
In the whole political set-up of the country, intellectuals, scholars, teachers and truly devoted and able patriots were mostly kept out of the electoral process or the power corridors or circles. As a result, our top political leaders, ministers, chief ministers, prime ministers and presidents have been coming from the richest classes, military bureaucracy and professional civil servants. They did not combine in them ability and vision. They were responsible for three martial laws, several military governments and many fruitless general elections.
In conclusion, we can say that we will have to promote a public awareness programme to strengthen the roots of democracy in Pakistan. We should decide to create the best social, political and economic conditions for the promotion of national unity and for democratic progress. Democracy will die its natural death if we do not end the major evils of injustice, illiteracy and ignorance, religious intolerance, terrorism, feudalism, corruption and economic inequality to start with.
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