Democracy is the Vilest Form of Government

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Pakistan’s history has been dominated by people demanding for democratic form of government. There have been several debates on which form of government is suitable for Pakistan and no one can come to a conclusion. Each democratic government has been replaced by dictators and no democratic government had completed it tenure. Of course there have been valid reasons for the removal of democratic governments by the military rulers but to this date Pakistan nation wants democracy. Although democratic government means people have more say in the government and there would be little chance of revolution and destabilization caused by it , democracy results in incompetent people forming governments, large scale corruption, instability and introduction of illegal ways of gaining power.
Democracy is the government of wealthy people which ultimately results in incompetent people gaining power. Majority of the people in Pakistan are uneducated and illiterate as the report by United Nations education department in 2012 stated that the illiteracy rate was 79%. Hence, these wealthy people bribe local tribes or their caste by providing them short term benefits and fake promises for the long run for example the pirs in the interior Sindh and Punjab. Furthermore, they have economic power to influence media and use it for their own benefit. Big business houses use daily news headlines to create public opinion in their favour. This influence of wealth over politics is probably clear in India, Pakistan and in many other countries which has led to the election of incompetent people in the government. Democratic leaders’ Yusuf raza gilani Bhutto zardari Nawaz sharif fooled people in their reign to get themselves elected by the use of their wealth and e...

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...awaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto got themselves elected by Pakistan nation informing them about their great plans before elections but they couldn’t solve Pakistan problem and created many more. If these plans would have been implemented Pakistan would have been a way better country then it is now. Hence in reality people can only elect people and they do not have any say in how their country should be run.

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