What difference will mid-term elections make? This fancy musical chair between PPPP, PML(N), Mullahs and Military coups will continue unless real fabric of the choice set available to electorates is changed.
And this choice set will not change until the population is "educated" and I mean the level of education not the literacy rate. Literacy is the ability to do "something" efficiently e.g., how to make a machine, build a structure or how to merely read and write.
Once you acquire the skills of reading and writing then you set about acquiring the education -by reading others experiences and experiments.
Education is the knowledge or the knowing of "what to do", it is the awareness of cost-benefit analysis or pros and cons of something.
Literacy come from schools and universities where as education comes from history, culture, Divine teachings e.g., Religion, collective experiences as well as school and universities.
However, door to knowledge is literacy. For the Pakistani population to make an "informed" judgement they have to have information. And this information acquisition can be greatly enhanced through literacy and using this information in the light of Islam, historical experiences, cultural tendencies etc.