Loud Thinking

Rebuilding Pakistan

3-4-2013

Pakistan is slowly inching towards economic bankruptcy and civil war. I suggest that we formulate a new social contract especially designed for the betterment of the 95 percent of the ‘have-nots’, who always pay 100 percent bills and taxes and never default on bank loans. Let us make a new Pakistan, which is redesigned to cater to the needs of the exploited. In order to achieve these objectives, it is proposed that the following steps may be initiated jointly by the government, the opposition, the bench and the bar, civil and military bureaucracy, students, trade unions and the civil society.

For this: the constitution may be amended to change the current faulty election system, which ensures the rule of the minority over the majority. The election system should also be changed so that the whole country directly votes for a president or the prime minister. Pakistan’s charter of development for the next fifty years should also be finalised in such a way that it is not politicised. And in order to empower the maximum number of people to enjoy the fruits of self-rule, we should convert every division of Pakistan into a province.

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
Lahore