Sir, with all due respect, what is the use of democracy when these politicians have destroyed the country in 9 years of continuous democratic rule? Don't you see Pakistan buried deep down due to corruption and heavy debts. Who is going to pay all this? To distract public from bad governance and to hide their chori chakari, these politicians have found new tactics. This way both, the public and the army will stay occupied and the kartoot of politicians will remain hidden.
The military has no right to impose its will on civilian leadership. All previous dictatorships have been acts of high treason, and no matter what justification is given in the short term for them (if any), in the end, when they end, the true damage can begin to reveal itself. You don't see most of the damage because it is secondary. Average Pakistani can make sense of headlines that say energy crisis is getting worse, or x leader accused of corruption. What's harder to understand or to convey to the public is how damaging to the politics of Pakistan it is that a system for governance has NEVER been established truly in Pakistan and that the ability to govern Pakistan is derailed by every dictatorship that has come along. The damage is secondary, if you damage the system, it will produce bad results economically. The US went from being a small group of 13 colonies, mostly agricultural, newly freed from the yolk of British imperialism to the sole superpower on earth by having a system established first on which prosperity could be built. A few visionaries like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Washington, Franklin and Hamilton built a political system with unbreakable rules, a system for distributed political power that doesn't allow any single force to dominate, and one that is checked by civilians regularly. First came that set up, then came economic development, and then came superpower status. Pakistan has a civilian system for a few years and then it gets destroyed routinely, and before it has a chance to mature, it gets destroyed again.
I personally have no party political affiliation, many years ago I was sympathetic to PTI until I caught wind of some things I didn't like. Now I am of the opinion that all parties are corrupt or at least potentially corrupt. All parties are quite incompetent, to the extent that should they even wish to be honest actors and cease corruption, they would find themselves being unfit and unable to govern effectively anyway. Above all, what makes ALL of this worse is that Pakistan's civilian institutions and groundwork for effective democracy is extremely weak, fragile and new. Every new dictatorship uproots it and we start from square one. Every dictatorship that comes along makes the years after it feel much harder for effective civilian governance.
Ultimately, Pakistan was by design meant to be sort of a democracy, never did our founding fathers envisage a future where the common man suffered a game of cat and mouse between corrupt and incompetent military elite overstepping their bounds and then corrupt and even more incompetent civilian elite running the show for however long they could before military comes in again.
The hope with allowing this sick and anaemic democracy to continue is that it CAN be influenced by the Pakistani public, no matter how corrupt the system is. Pakistanis CAN exert influence on a civilian system for change and reform, they can do this through opposition, through the courts, at every election and by popular demand and protest.
In a dictatorship, the military elite are almost completely unaccountable, and when civilians want change, it usually ends with abdication of powers rather than transition, and certainly not reform or improvement. The systems in the US, in Britain and elsewhere are working and provide political stability because they are excellently designed to allow for people to influence power, and for that power to be checked by different structures of governance to provide stability and to leave no possibility of a single tyranny running the show. A military dictatorship is a total tyranny, completely unaccountable, it damages civilian authority and makes things worse in the long run and at best is only suspends progress that eventually needs to be made. In Britain, there was a civil war that lead to parliamentary sovereignty being established. And now that sovereignty and supreme executive power is what provides stability.
In the past 2-3 years I had become more optimistic about Pakistan's future, a military dictatorship would throw that confidence back to zero. If it happens, it will throw the clock back to the start, and I promise you, when the military then leaves, and incompetent civilian leadership ensues, me and you will be back on this forum discussing how nothing was achieved in the past few years or decades, and then we can decide what came first the chicken or the egg, i.e what came first poor civilian system or militarily dictatorships that have never allowed enough time or power for a civilian system to be established. Every other country has got a working system, even the Indians have figured it out, why can't we?