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Every country has a government. Every country has opposition parties. In the United States, there are the Republicans (government) and the Democrats (opposition). In the United Kingdom, there is the Labour (government) and the Conservative (opposition). The government’s responsibility is to run a country to the best of its abilities based on what it understands to be the will of the people. The opposition’s responsibility is to openly discuss the mistakes of the elected government, while working towards a collaborative solution to the problems of the people. But what surprises me is that in either of these countries, the word “impeach” or “resign” is rarely used in politicial conversations. Realistically, if opposition parties were to behave irresponsibly, the United States would have seen Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H W Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W Bush impeached based on numerous ill-fated domestic, foreign policy and economic decisions. The United Kingdom would have see Winston Churchill, Margret Thatcher, John Major, and Tony Blair raked over the coals and removed for the same reasons.

Where would democracy be today in these countries?

In Pakistan, democracy does not work that way. In Pakistan, the “democratic” parties would like the people of Pakistan, and the world, to believe that they are unable to govern due to the threat of military takeovers. This is not even close to being the truth. Read the rest of this entry »