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The big 3

Elections are coming up over here in Pakistan, there appears to be some change this time. But I have not been able to understand which system reigns supreme here, democracy, dictatorship or monarchy. I have mentioned these three forms of government for a reason, one way or another, all three of them had existed and flourished here. But nothing in it's purest of the pure form had ever existed, democracy doused in dictatorship, dictatorship seasoned with democracy and democracy colored by monarchy. There have been dictators, there have been politicians(who act as monarchs) and there have been bureaucrats, there always will be these three categories and but still I hope we can someday classify which form of governance is the truly rightful one. The government has been divided between three key players, The Shareefs, The Bhutto clan and The Pakistan Army, as the ball spun from one's court to another each has been critical of the other but hiding their own faults. Most of the po

First Post

The first post of this blog, I have to say this " I am so glad to be doing again " In the past few months, I have felt the need and the urge to talk about things, ideas, thoughts, emotions which are spontaneous, raw and sometimes lost, but I had not found a conversation partner for this "exercise", luckily I thought of this and since the previous blog is full of older thoughts, my writings and some people from my university know about it, I needed something new, something different and here it is and it is rightly titled as Reality Check!