
Where such unmoving prospects will leave the people, the country, democracy and the staggering problems all three face is anyone’s guess. It’ll be argued, yet again and tirelessly, whether democracy suits the “genius of our people”, as Gen Ayub Khan had famously said in the ’60s. Unfortunately, after so many years, the inertia gripping the rulers and their lack of vision invite little else but more introspection and a continuous debate on the future of democracy.
The writer is an editor with ‘Dawn’, based in Karachi
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