Dec 21 2008
Is Pakistan a democracy ?
Is Pakistan a democracy? This exactly is the question raised by the Minister of External Affairs in the Government of India yesterday.
Pakistan has been making claims that it is a democracy and the elected government in Islamabad is the sole power making strategic decisions in Pakistan.
Genuine democracy does not merely mean holding elections. The process of democratisation makes representatives accountable and ensures it does not encourage separate and different centres of power. The pretence of democracy is not democratisation. It is not for us to advocate but most would like to know who runs the show?
Pranab Mukherjee told his Pakistani counterparts.
Although Pakistan has an elected government in the center, the shots for taking actions in the aftermath of the Mumbai Terror attacks are being taken by the Pakistani army. Whenever questions related to the ISI, India and the terror network in Pakistani territories come, the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan just become puppets in the hands of the Pakitan Army General. This is not democracy. This is just an extension of the dictatorship that Pervez Musharraf brought to Islamabad albeit in disguise to let the Pakistan army gain the faith of the Pakistani public gain. So, any claims by Pakistani politicians of Pakistan being a democratized nation are false on all accounts.
Thanks Deepak for your comments on my blog. I totally agree with you that the lone terrorist has to be Hanged. I also am of the opinion that this terrorism aided by Pakistan has to be stopped once & for all & the only way that can be done is through an all out war.
In my post I was just observing the apathy of the common man & how he has to struggle for no reason at all.
Keep in touch.
Hi Sachin, the common man is born to struggle. Who else doesn’t have to struggle, everyone, even a butterfly has to struggle to get the wings strong enough to be able to fly. Hence the Indian common man is just an example … we need to struggle harder and bring the right people at the top of our country’s administration to make our lives at least safe in our own country.
Did u read the article why Pakistanis hate India?
Thanks for the comment.