SOCIALISM IN PAKISTAN

Socialism and Social Democracy in Pakistan

When I was studying the "Encyclopedia of Countries and Nations", I found only 19 Kingdoms, 3 Principalities, 1 Confederation, 2 Socialist Republics, 1 Co-operative Republic and 3 commonwealth Countries or States out of total 194. I surprised when I considered that only 11 countries are using the word "Federal Government or State" with their names and 5 are using "Democratic Republic or State". Another interesting thing I noted that three countries use the word "United" or "Union of" with their names i.e.; United states of America, United Arab emirates and Union of Myanmar. Then I thought about the system of elections and about the two main big parties of USA i.e.; Republican and Democratic. I also noted that most of the countries are using the word "Republic" with their official name. Then I went through the dictionary and found the definition of the word "Republic" as, "A county that is governed by a president and politicians elected by the people and where there is no king or queen." It means most of the countries have the system of government run through elected politicians. Or we can say that democracy is most common and famous system of government across the world. Then I thought to read the definition of the word "Democracy". I found this definition, "Democracy is a system of government in which all the people of a country can vote to elect the representatives to form an organized government for fair and equal treatment of everyone in the country for their right to take part in making decisions." Then my mind went towards the logo and motive of the current ruling party in Pakistan i.e.; Pakistan Peoples Party or PPP. The Manifesto of PPP says that their party mission is to impose socialism in Pakistan. I read the definition of Socialism and knew that, "Socialism is a set of political and economic theories based on the belief that everyone has an equal right to share of a country's wealth and that the government should own and control the main industries." Pakistan is a Social and Democratic Republic. Social Democracy is defined as, "A political system that combines the principles of socialism with the greater personal freedom of democracy. A country that has political system of government is called a Social Democrat." Hence I advise and suggest to the President Asif Ali Zardari, "Mr. President, kindly try to establish Pakistan as a pure Social Democratic country. Now the Chapter of terrorism has been closed and reached to its end with the killing of Baitullah Mehsood. Hence kindly develop SOCIAL DEMOCRACY in Pakistan.