Democracy and Pakistan

摘要

How does one define democracy? Of the many that can be googled from the internet -Googie appears to have made reference books redundant - my favourite is the line from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address where he refers to democracy as a government of the people, by the peopie, for the people'. The corner stone of democracy lies in the fact that the government or a state should accurately reflect the collective will and wisdom of its people and there is a vast consensus that democracy with all its shortcomings is still better than any other form of government.