Democratic dictator

Strange are the ways of democracy in our country. We are neither a democracy nor a dictatorship but something in between the two. In fact, this is a democracy in form but dictatorship in substance. The truth is that it is a democracy for the elite class but dictatorship for the masses. Privatisation is the second name of personalisation. We are at a loss to understand why a government cannot run a project successfully and make it a profit-oriented while a single individual, firm or company can win laurels for the same project. Even if the proposition of privatisation is held good, then why is the government spending trillions of rupees on new mega projects?

Truly speaking, the masses are generally unable to understand the logic under which all businesses of our rulers, both in the country and abroad, are successfully functioning, free of corruption and earning huge profit, but why they cannot make mega projects in the public sector free of corruption and profit-oriented. Is it democratic or dictatorial to terrorise workers, bypass parliament and mercilessly shoot those who do not accept the ex-parte verdicts of the prime minister primarily based on his specific personal interests?

Ch M Jamshaid Khan

Rawalpindi