When I see this forum I see a young, energetic, exuberant and irascible (short tempered) youth willing to do something, to make a change though I fear mostly astray...Any way I want put a discussion on the table: I can say this with the support of Facts that Pakistan inherited “Army” and “Feudalism” where as India inherited a “Bourgeoisie” (upper middle class) which wanted development and a democratic country.What do you all think?

Here is what I have to say When the British came to the shores of the region now called India they came across a majority of people wanting businesses to flourish and economic growth that’s why at the time of partition almost all the industry was in India where as ninety percent of the army of British Empire from sub-continent was from the areas later associated to be Pakistan.

What we came to call democracy was (and is) not democracy, It is an eye wash and reality is that feudalism has been there all along. In Pakistan people have been and are elected for what they are , where they are , what their cast is as rather then to what they have done and what they promise to do for the people who elect them. If you think, a person elected but not answerable to the people would be least keen to do welfare acts for his/her people and one who knows that he has a “vote bank” who will vote him in any event would be interested in only accumulating wealth and doing what interests him. Any way I am not a pessimist and I believe that with the increase in public awareness (e.g. through education) this will change. One could argue that Parliament thus never fulfilled its role but I guess there are improvements as well. For the first time our Prime Minister is a technocrat. These are small changes and hopefully we will have more humanism (a society (a place) where people are known for what they do and not what they are) When we didn’t have 'democracy' we had military dictatorship. What else can I say, words speak volumes, what ever that goes to the government most of it is either remunerated to the army or the debt. I think we made an enemy out of a bad neighbor. Instead of getting into negotiations our first instinct was to fight for our rights. Not arguing that it was the right thing to do or not it didn’t work out did it? On the other hand India. They had democracy through out, though I do not proclaim that it was the best infect it had flaws it had corruption but it was and is a democracy what ever “the elected” did there was and always is the ultimate check of electorate which was proven by the defeat of BJP in the last election.

I hope that what I wrote was informative for some but I sincerely hope that there is disagreement so that I get to learn from the disagreement.ABOUT MEI am a student of Law (University of London) and also doing my graduation in Political Science and Journalism