Democracy and Political Development in Pakistan

Two of the most powerful democracies in the modern era, the United States and the United Kingdom lead as examples as very successful forms of democratic government. Yet despite both states utilizing democratic governments, both differ greatly on how they operate as a state and through its governmental structure.

For many years governments have been established to keep order and control. If the government has too much control what becomes of its people? America’s independence from Britain was July 4, 1776. The People of America no longer wanted the British government, so they would start a new one. The Americans did not want too much power from the government, so a new theory was set in place within the declaration of independence. In today’s time we very well suffer from the same thing. A government with too much power. War is usually the cause of letting the government have more power for the safety of the people, but even after the war the government keeps its power only to gain more and more after each war through its acts and policies written. The purpose of this essay is

Democracy, while imperfect, is the system of ruling prevalent in vast tracks of the world. Despite this, democracy is not a uniform system with every country practicing its democracy in slightly unique ways.

There are many ways states are governed and many different systems of governments. The United States of America uses a democratic system of government; a system where the common person holds power through the ability to vote and participate in politics. Although this holds true for a majority of the operations carried out within the state, some may say the United States has shares particular characteristics of a dictatorship; a system of government where politics are controlled by a small subset of individuals, rather than the power being held by the people in a democratic system.

Government is an administration defined by the Constitution, but is also a constantly adjusting foundation by the efforts of its citizens. By Litherland (2014), government is defined as policies set in order to lead a body of people (p. 395). Over the span of time, the idea of government has been stretched, changed, and applied to various communities throughout both the nation and the world. Whether it was back in the eighteenth century, current, or in the very near future—government has existed and will continue to exist for its people and the nation it has built its foundation upon. With the use of multiple authors, those of: “Difference between Direct and Representative Democracy” (n.d.), “Federalism - Dividing Power between States and the

As you can see, all three components play an important part of a basis of a model government, which should reflect in today’s society. These important parts bare different levels of equality and importance to the table. Policy makers should take heed now that we are in the 21st century; many things have changed in 54 years. Foreign policy has heighted due to the global emergence of radicals. Therefore, there is a heighted and imperative need for a well-structured governmental system to ensure quality and responsible decisions made by the people’s policymakers.

Every since the turn of the 19th century, democracy, the core value and principle of the United Nations, has grown strong in many parts of Europe, North America, Latin America, and East Asia. However, many parts of the world still lay under authoritarian rule, and the change to democracy involves violent demonstrations and protests, riots and even civil wars. These violent transitions towards democracy result in an unstable foundation for the emerging democracies, especially when the country not only has to face the challenge of keeping their new government in check, but also enforce safety measures with subsequent planning to prevent a relapse into chaos and violence. The best option seems to be achieving independence by all means possible.

It comes in many forms: Direct, Representative,Parliamentary, Presidential, and Hybrid/semi-direct. The United States uses the Representative form of Democracy, it involves the people voting a Representative for government.

In an article from Stratfor, Pakistan 's Deadly Struggles With Politics and Religion, January 5, 2011, the author gives an idea to counter

Democracy is the type government used in Ayoub state because it is ruled by the people. "Freedom is the only good worth having in a democracy and people do what they want, even breaking the law if they have the opportunity" (Different Types of Government n.pag.). Ayoub state's believe that if the people make the rules then the rules are not going to be broken since the laws were decided by the citizens. In this way peace can be maintained throughout the state. "Democracy can provide

As time passed, conditions in Pakistan worsened. Terrorists bombed mosques and churches, they threatened people to the point where every child was scared to leave his/her house . Robbery, corruption, strikes, revolts, and fights were everywhere.

This period marked the ‘second wave’ of local government reform a military regime. The system of local government introduced in 1979 by General Zia-ul-Haq was the most representative in nature since independence. For the first time in the history of Pakistan, elections to all local councils in both rural and urban areas were held simultaneously on the basis of adult franchise and under the aegis of independent provincial election authorities.

Women are considered inferior in Pakistan, blame Islam. The economy has gone down the gutter, blame Islam. The politicians are all crooked and in bed with the Taliban, it must have something to do with the long-dead Gen.Zia!

Issues of unstable governance are directly related to the difficulties confronted by developing nations (BU 2014). The government plays a crucial role in uplifting a country and its development. It can achieve this by managing the country and its problems in a decently proficient manner, taking the right decisions at the right time, imposing rules and regulations and by setting up viable strategies to fight the obstacles coming in its way of advancement. Most of the developing countries tend to face similar problems and require serious government reforms in order to defeat them. Surprisingly, Pakistan is among one of those countries that are tormented by issues such as poverty, illiteracy, terrorism, civil war and overpopulation. This paper will shed light on some of the challenges faced by Pakistan as an impoverished nation and also provide some suggestions on how these issues can be tackled.

Since Pakistan emerged on the map of the world sixty-seven years ago in 1947, its existence have been marked by many ups and downs that includes initial problems faced at its emergence, cold relations with India over border disputes and Kashmir Issue. Moreover wars fought with India in 1965 and 1971 which led to partition of East and West Pakistan. Administration was weak as Prime Ministers and Presidents were changing very frequently without any significant progress and policy makers were having hard time in making decisions. In this scenario our international relations also played a pivotal role in policy making. Pakistan location had an important role in determining its fate, as positioned next to India proved to be distressing for Pakistan due to their distrusting relationship. Secondly being a neighbor to Afghanistan led to problems later on when Pakistan was used by USA to fight USSR in Afghanistan which led to cold relations with USSR. However China was friendly towards Pakistan from beginning and their relationship became stronger by focusing on trade and investment. Pakistan became a member of United Nations on 30 Sept 1947 and became nuclear power in government of Z.A Bhutto when he encouraged people to make an atom bomb that saved Pakistan from an Indian or any external invasion throughout its years and due to this strong power we are still Independent and safe from