Pakistan: Illusions and delusions of democracy
Dr Rubina Saigol
Friday, September 19, 2008
There can be a number of answers to such questions. Here I propose a few tentative answers as I ponder over our unending predicament: 1) It is almost a cliché, nonetheless true that we have tried to usher in democracy without any serious attempts at land reforms to end our own unique brand of 'feudalism'; 2) We have been unable to transform the most pernicious aspects of our tribal culture and instead have tribalized the state; 3) we are geographically located in a region that is geo-politically and geo-economically central to aggressive, resource-seeking global powers.
http://www.newageislam.com/pakistan---illusions-and-delusions-of-democracy-/islam-and-politics/d/751
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