Crisis of good governance in

Pakistan: Need for reforms and

institution building.
Outline:
1. Introduction
a. Pakistan is bearing a turmoil of governance.
b. What is an efficiently governed state?
c. What good governance is?
d. State of art in Pakistan.
e. Reform on national level as well as on gross root level are required to
overcome all the challenges lying ahead.
f. Institution building will prove to be a decisive factor.
2. Explaining governance; good governance; crisis of good governance.
a. Formal definitions and illustrations.
3. Comparison of Pakistan with other states, in terms of governance.
a. Under developed, developing, developed countries.
4. Root causes of crisis of good governance in Pakistan; historical perspective
and state of art, as well.
a. Pre-independence scenarios.
b. Challenges faced after independence: absence of state’s constitution
and incapable state’s machinery.
c. Quaid’s Pakistan and ideology lost after his eternal departure;
leadership crisis.
d. Beast of corruption unleased while Pakistan was taking baby steps and
it is unable to be chained till now.
e. Illiteracy; something that is exploited by feudal and clergies.
f. Weak democracy paved the way of incompetents to get into the
parliament.
g. Trespassing of state’s institutions into each other’s jurisdiction.
h. Influence of international powers in our social and democratic system.
i. Strong ethnic bonds among masses while weak territorial nationalism.
j. Influential political clergies and feudalist gods; their hypocritic role and
bonds with external powers.
k. Parasitic economy empowers international players to influence our
internal affairs.
l. Amateur electoral system provides loop holes and back door channels
to the double crossers.
m. Weak, incapable and politicized institutions: executive, police,
judiciary, media.
n. Paralyzed parliament and incompetent parliamentarians.
o. Terrorism; rebels to this rotten system are threatened or assassinated.
5. Crisis of good governance; impacts and outcomes.
 a. Terrorism, extremism, ethnicity, chaos in society.
b. External threats.
c. Beast of Corruption is unchained.
d. Unemployment; letting youth falls a prey to exploiters; immoralities;
brain drain.
e. Load shedding; the rising shortfall of energy has really prostrated the
state’s economic engine.
f. Foreign Debts.
g. Rotten education system.
h. Inefficient and insufficient health facilities.
i. Catastrophe in economy; negligible foreign investments; imports are
dashed to the ground; inflation; downfall of currency.
j. International isolation and embarrassment.
k. Ineffective and weak institutions.
6. Reforms needed to pull Pakistan out of this quick sand of bad governance;
rehabilitation of institutions.
a. Top to bottom accountability; Reforms in NAB, FIA, IB.
b. Electoral reforms; ECP.
c. Independent economy. FBR; Reforms in revenue department.
d. Independence of judiciary.
e. Reforms in civil and military bureaucracy.
f. Parliament; Dislocated backbone of Pakistan’s democracy needs to be
erected.
g. Media; something that drive the mindset of any nation. Reforms in this
sector are a job of high priority.
h. Education department; Universal curriculum; Research departments in
all fields must be brought under consideration which are the nursery of
knowledge economy.
i. Health sector is Pakistan is dashed to the ground. No nation can claim
to be a prosperous state without progress in this department.
j. Without reforms in Police and other civil law enforcement agencies, all
other efforts to make Pakistan an efficiently governed state would be in
vain.
7. Conclusion
8. Way forward
a. True model of democracy should be implemented that really delivers.
b. National integration is the basic ingredient to prosper and thrive. All
other reforms are dependent to it.
 Since her inception, Pakistan is bearing a turmoil of
governance. It is an Islamic state but limited to words.
Equipped with ultimate resources but possess a parasitic
economy. Key element in fight against terrorism, but a hub of
international embarrassment. Dominant in race of nukes but
crawling on belly in terms of human development. Where
immoralities have been adopted as a national ideology. A
sovereign country where state’s institutions are private
properties. Despite of being on the brink of total disaster, still
its not a collapsed one, but a terribly governed state. In
efficiently administrated nation, masses have a sigh of relief,
where institutions are autonomous and serve the national
interest, not individual’s. Where across the board accountability
do exists. Fundamental rights of people are secured. A territory,
where state’s machinery is responsible that no sector of the
society, falls a prey to sense of deprivation and ensure a better
tomorrow for all. All these ingredients weave themselves in the
fabric of governance to be stamped as good. In contrast to
aforementioned facts, Pakistan is ridden with crime,
lawlessness, terrorism, extremism, nepotism. A heaven, but for
elite. Where courts themselves cry for justice. Though state of
art in Pakistan depicts a marred face of governance, still she has
all the potential to overcome this catastrophe. Reforms on
national level as well as on gross root level are required,
significantly the institution building will prove to be a decisive
factor, as crisis of good governance is not only a threat to her
prosperity but also a menace to the existence of Pakistan.