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Originally Posted by Aliinaa
Of course, you have every right to voice your opinion. Nobody is stopping you from that. I do understand the fact that you’re quite unhappy with the present state of democracy in Pakistan and so am I. I mean there is corruption, lack of accountability, extremism and what not. But I still believe in the future of democracy, you see. We need to strengthen our institutions first. With education, awareness would spread and traditional attitudes would surely change.
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For me that's the root of problem, I see it as a dogmatic belief. So far I can smell some freedom in the air which is a good sign. I can see traditional thinking changing. I can see girls and women are now breaking free from tyranny and having their voices heard which is also a good thing, and I can also notice increased level of tolerance in religious behavior
. But all this social change is just the result of propaganda, democracy has done nothing at all. Democracy is still stuck in 'interpreting holy books' just like old molvis. When it comes to rule of law we just have 'debates on interpretation of law', thus there is no such thing as the law and it results in corrupting everything. And the revolutionary demagogues like Qadri arise. Nature is mightier than books and dreams it seems
, when we begin to think it's changing it just taps us
. But still, I am in favor of democracy to evolve here and I hate dictatorship myself, the biggest threat to democracy would be from goatheaded supporters of democracy themselves who are just trying to make it another sect
.