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Why Pakistan Army Must Allow The Democracy To Flourish In Pakistan & Why Pakistanis Must Give Democracy A Chance?

By Sikander Hayat 

These days it is becoming a kind of habit for many people to predict “change”. Nobody knows what the change is going to be apart from the singular hatred for Mr Zardari. I must make it clear at the start of this post that I am against Zardari’s way of running presidency & his own party but he is the democratically elected president of the country. Those who have visited this site before know that I am also against the dynastic politics of PPP but at the same time I am against the dynastic politics of PML, ANP & others. One of the many flaws of democracy is that you have to accept the will of people and it means all the people. A person who thinks of himself as the brainiest in the whole world has one vote and a day labourer also has one vote.
Pakistan needs consistency of government, that consistency where every institution is deeply rooted and not dependent on any one person for its survival. Pakistan has got a strong army, now a strong judiciary is asserting itself but it also needs a strong parliamentary system which will only happen if democratically elected governments are allowed to run their course. I will be the first person to say that Asif Zardari is corrupt but if this government is not allowed to run its course than come the next election the people running it affairs will go to the electorate and say that they weren’t allowed to work by the “establishment”.
Two and a half years is what it has left and than PPP will have no excuse. People will vote them out and someone new will take over. Pakistani electorate must not be denied their day at the ballot box.
The irony is that Pakistan army is the only institution that can guarantee Pakistan’s fledgling democracy. This fledgling democracy has given some positive things to Pakistan which are as follows:

  1. A consensus against the militant Islam which was lacking in the time of Musharaf
  2. 18th amendment to rid Pakistani constitution of 8th amendment and other bad legistation by the successive military governments
  3. Declaration of Gilgit Baltistan as a self-ruling administrative unit of Pakistan
  4. NFC award



3.0.I wrote in one of my previous posts and I quote

“Please give democracy a chance so that people from Sindh, NWFP and Baluchistan can keep their trust in the federation. PML (N) & PML (Q), both Punjabi dominated parties, are asking for Zardari's resignation on moral grounds but what about houses in Park Lane London and businesses in Spain.
Now Nawaz Sharif is trying to pretend that he is the cleanest person in Pakistan. They are all corrupt but it is only the job of the people to tell who should be running the country. Army, if it is putting pressure on Zardari to resign, must back off or there will be dire consequences for the future of Pakistan. 
Pakistan is as much a home for Sindhis, Blochis and Pathans as it of Punjabis. Leave it that way and respect the democratic mandate given to Pakistan People’s Party by the people of Pakistan. 
Is morality applicable to just people from smaller provinces. What about the morality of Nawaz Sharif's attack on the Supreme Court of Justice Sajjad Ali Shah? What about the morality of looting of Mehran Bank? What about the morality of creation of IJI to stop Benazir from gaining two third majority? What about the morality of creation of Q league? What about the morality of judicial murder of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto? I can go on for ever but let’s not pretend that anything PLM (N) is doing has anything to do with morality. 
Only real democracy and continuous democracy can make Pakistan stronger and completion of PPP’s term in Parliament is a must for that to happen.


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