Opinion | Pakistan: An unsustainable democratic state.

Pakistan as a democratic and prosperous state is an utter failure.

Being a nuclear power, no doubt, Pakistan, a country with a population of around 23 crores, has the privilege concerning its military defense potential. But is it enough for Pakistan, being a nuclear power, to be called a prosperous state on the face of the globe? If having nuclear triumph makes a country a flourishing state, then the Constitution, law, education, healthcare, and general prosperity lose their connotation. In the following lines, we will sketch the facts that will help us understand how prosperous and flourishing the country of Pakistan is as a state.

Constitutional failure: Pakistan is a sovereign state with a democratic constitution. The preamble of the Constitution of Pakistan reads her states democratic essence as Wherein the state shall exercise its powers and authority through the chosen representatives of the people.
The objective mentioned enunciates that the representatives chosen by the people will govern the state of Pakistan. But in the past seven decades, the history of governance of the state constitutionally declared as democratic has witnessed dreadful military coups that threw democratically chosen representatives out of the Senate as we throw trash out from the house. The history of Pakistan reveals that not a single people-elected government has completed its full term in the Senate of Pakistan. Because Pakistans army always wanted hegemony in the country to serve their interests. Thus, the defense of Pakistan trampled over the constitution meant for democracy to thrive in the country. In the list of failures, the constitutional non-fulfillment of Pakistan is the colossal one.

The other failures we mention in the forthcoming lines are the aftermath of Pakistans constitutional collapse and failure.

Educational Failure: Who knows not the significance and urgency of science and technology in the 21st century to grow prosperous in the fast-growing world? A person minimally exposed to the world of the 21st century is cognizant of the noteworthiness of education. Ironically Pakistan is such a state as a nuclear power on the face of the globe. While On the other hand, around 23 million children between the age of 5 to 16 are out of school. Moreover, plenty of children are enrolled in Madrassas schools dedicated to religious fanaticism. These Madrassas drive them far from scientific and technological education. Therefore, such a loophole in the state machine is the taproot of the employment crisis and terrorism.
Of its gross national production, Pakistan spends the most meager amount of 1.8 percent on education.

Economic Failure: Pakistan is economically a disastrous state as 1/3rd of its population do live their pity lives in utter poverty. In Pakistan, 30% of the young generation is either illiterate or unskilled. In Pakistan, 40% of employment depends on agriculture but the growth dwindles tremendously.
Pakistans economic freedom score is 48.8 making its economy the 153rd freest in the the2022 index. Pakistan is ranked 34th among 39 countries in the Asia0Pacific region, and its overall score is below the regional and world averages.

Failure in rule-of-Law: it is easy to understand that we can call a country the peaceful one where the people keep the law above all because it is the law of the state that guarantees the protection of the rights of the people of the country. But in Pakistan, the rule of law is as weak as a polio-suffering child. The 2022 index of Economic Freedom has put rule-of-law in Pakistan in the following lines.
Organized crime, corruption, a weak regulatory environment, and subversion of the legal system have weakened the protection for the acquisition and disposition of property rights. The judiciary is politicized and subject to external influence and intimidation by extremist groups and high-ranking political officials, corruption is endemic in politics, government, and law enforcement.
Ethnic Chaos: A failure in national integration.

In a gathering on the 15th of June 1948, Mr. Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, had said, We are now all Pakistanisnot Balochis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so onand as Pakistanis, we must feel, behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else. But, only 25 years after the creation of Pakistan, East Pakistan got separated and emerged as a new country based on Bangla Ethnicity known as Bangladesh.
After the separation of East Pakistan, the present political scenario in the state of Pakistan is that the two major ethnic groups: Pashtun and Balochi have been politically struggling for their independent states. Not only Pashtun, and Balochi have been struggling for their independence but Sindhi too are raising voices for separate Sindhudesh. These are the vivid indicators pointing toward the disintegration of the state of Pakistan. When and how this disintegration will occur in the political scene of Pakistan, nobody knows however what is obvious is that Pakistan as a democratic and prosperous state is an utter failure.