A brief overview of Pakistan’s political history, with a focus on the consistent failure of all types of governance modules, makes one wonder who is the real power wielder in the country. The ousted civilian rulers tried and mostly convicted on various charges with corruption on top of the list keep blaming the establishment till they manage to get back in the comfy chairs of the parliament, and in turn, military rulers keep coming back in control under the projected motivation to save the state from the brink of complete failure. The vicious circle has continued unabated.
In Pakistan, if the country’s three main political parties, namely the PPP, the PML-N, and the PTI, have each failed to govern well (especially with reference to economic revival), we need to ask, why? Is there a problem with the stated three political parties or with the state’s three main organs, namely the Legislature, Judiciary, and Executives, who are frequently found attempting to function outside of their respective constitutional orbits and relying on whose machinations? Is there an issue with our stars or with us? Is it a problem with the governance system or with the system’s unjust and self-serving men? Is it due to incompetence or the frail character of licentious power grabbers? Is it “like people, like rulers” or “jaisaa raja waisi prajaa”? Or is it the result of a failure to learn from the mistakes of others, as well as our own major national strategic blunders, such as those in October 1958, December 1970/71, July 1977, April 1979, October 1999, September........