What we need is democracy. It can be in any form; presidential or parliamentary. We should not tie democracy to one form of govt. two of the world's well-known democracies follow one of these forms; US follows presidential and UK follows parliamentary.

At a subjective level, we can find merits and demerits in both these forms of govt. i know i may sound strange when i say this but i think that the people who call for presidential system in Pakistan are those who would support a strong unitary and central govt (like a dictatorship, khilafat, oligarchy, etc).

Parliamentary form of govt puts certain checks and conditions and sets-up a system which these people find hard to follow. they want to govern as if governing was their divine right (just like Louis XIV).

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