Democracy in Pakistan: Hopes and Hurdles (CSS 2018)
1. Introduction
2. An overview of Pakistan's Democratic history.
3. Promising hopes for Pakistan's democratic system:
• Third consecutive and smooth transition of democratic governments in history of Pakistan.
• Emergence of new national level political parties
• Accountability drive across the board
• Civilian supermacy rather than military: a case stuy of Pak-India recent skirmishes
4. Hurdles in strenthening democracy in Pakistan:
• Poor role of Election Commission
• Entrenched dynastic politics in Pakistan
• Lack of true intra- party elections
• Horse trading and corrupting influence of money politics
• Weak and ineffective role of Local government
5. Way forward to resolve hurdles:
• Educating masses especially civic education
• Strenthening Election commission
• Political parties must come up from ethnic politics to national politics
• Abolishing feudal system
Conclusion