Longtime
Hope you are doing well.
Root cause of every evil in developing countries is lack of affordable good quality education, and as well as a dearth of scientific temper. Nation builders have never been political leaders, it's the technologists, scientists, professors, entrepreneurs that really build the nation. Rest all is feel-good fluff.
Indeed, good to see you around and doing well.
I agree with your perception from a wider perspective, but in Pakistan, one of the root causes is political disenfranchisement. A peasant can't educate himself if he's living on the edge of povery, kept in check by an unaccountable elite that has captured the very essence of the state.
These things require:
1. Stable economy
2. Stable political environment
3. Long tenure
4. Collective effort
Awam he 4 minute men cheen paan cheen paan shuru krdeti a? Corrupt politicians, mafias and bureaucracy ko kon sambhalay? None of it is present atm. If no one was hard on Nawaz's decades of tenure? Bhutto & cos decades of reign? Why our publics has got no chill? Because of media. No payments being made to media. No sub acha ha reports coming in.
I only partially agree with your views and points here. Long tenures are not important for example. You can have a system whereby governments are re-elected every four years and have plenty of continuity of policy. What Pakistan lacks, and you've identified this but are perhaps instead looking for a solution in tenure, is a lack of political maturity, continuity, and maturity in institutions.
One of our most fundamental problems is that our system is extremely immature and not properly established, constitution gets thrown out of the window at will, judiciary is strong-armed by strong enough arms.
As for Nawaz, Bhutto, etc. Every time our establishment kicks them out, instead of removing them, they turn them into democratic martyrs and set the stage for their return. It happens every time, and gets worse with every iteration, the exact same thing is happening now.
In the 1950s we had politicians like GM Syed, AK Fazlul Haq, and Suhrawardy, this class of politicians was kicked out by power hungry civilian dictators and generals, thus people lost their representatives. Then we kept East Pakistan out of power and Bengalis disenfranchised, thus we lost half the country, while Bhutto clinged to power. Then when our establishment got tired of Bhutto who was a popular politician, they martyred him and in doing so they set up a generational dynasty of Bhuttos, starting with BB, then Zardari, and now Bilawal. Then our generals started calling all politicians scum and liars, replaced them with mullahs and industrialists (like Nawaz). Then they backed Nawaz and Mullahs against BB. And then eventually they got tired of both Nawaz and BB kicking them out of power. BB and NS were not allowed to return to Pakistan. But guess what resulted? They both came back, and now we have two political dynasties Sharif and Bhutto. Then came the IK saga, the establishment actively destabilised Nawaz and kicked him out. Did that end his career? No, he still leads his party, and now he is looking for a return, instead his daughter has now come forward as a possible party leader and successor.
You see, these games are on going. The elite need to step back or be forced back and allow the country to be governed by the normal course of democracy and politics. People will learn and they will eventually kick out these dynasties. Every time some benevolent general does it, they waste another decade... and in that decade we go back to square one, as I mentioned above, lack of continuity, immature political system and immature institutions.
This infernal cycle is ONE of the issues, the other big issue is elite capture. But again, I will write a thread on that some time starting with the subject of land reforms.
