The Pakistani Spectator

What is Pakistan to us. It’s the vision of freedom, democracy, prosperity, and social justice in accordance with the principles of Islam that galvanized the majority of Muslims and people of other creeds of South Asia to launch Pakistan movement, and the dynamic and competent leadership of the Quaid-i-Azam made this dream come true.

But the early demise of the founder of Pakistan and the mysterious murders of couple of independence leaders of movement put brake on this promising land. Unfortunately, after early death of Mr Jinnah, strong civil and military bureaucracy hijacked the state as political institutions were weak and in early formative stage. This led to blurring of our founding vision, giving rise to parochial thinking and politics.

Now the things have become so severely worst that literally the military, bureacracy and feudal rule the country no matter who actually sits in the Islamabad. All this transition to democracy is hogwash because in Pakistan the dictatorship and the democracy are the two side of same coin.

We Pakistanis should strive to make Pakistan a welfare state, and then developing state and then an Islamic state. For that we have to put military, bureaucracy at its place and totally abolish the feudal system.