http://pitafi.com/2009/10/13/how-democracy-should-work/ Weblog featuring high-quality editorial commentary Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:40:49 +0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://pitafi.com/2009/10/13/how-democracy-should-work/comment-page-1/#comment-2565 M. Ali Kemal Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:05:05 +0000 http://pitafi.com/2009/10/13/how-democracy-should-work/#comment-2565 While read your article I was thinking that what if we ask our lobbyist (traders, industrialists and agriculturists) to formalise the trade and commerce policies of the country and negotiate with the world. In this way we are giving them more power, more power to our own people. In this way we'll reduce our foreign trips asking PTAs and FTAs. Though it is a difficult task because in that way these lobbyists become very strong but in this way we are empowering our own people. More importantly, these people especially the industrialists are always greeedy people (stereo type comment), to counter that we need consumer protection society which is also run by the public (voters) and independent of the government and those industrialists. While read your article I was thinking that what if we ask our lobbyist (traders, industrialists and agriculturists) to formalise the trade and commerce policies of the country and negotiate with the world. In this way we are giving them more power, more power to our own people. In this way we’ll reduce our foreign trips asking PTAs and FTAs. Though it is a difficult task because in that way these lobbyists become very strong but in this way we are empowering our own people. More importantly, these people especially the industrialists are always greeedy people (stereo type comment), to counter that we need consumer protection society which is also run by the public (voters) and independent of the government and those industrialists.

]]> http://pitafi.com/2009/10/13/how-democracy-should-work/comment-page-1/#comment-2535 Pakistan Press on Waziristan Campaign « COTO Report Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:36:10 +0000 http://pitafi.com/2009/10/13/how-democracy-should-work/#comment-2535 [...] by Farrukh: In a recent article entitled Democracy does deliver, a woman PPP parliamentarian has not really made the point of democracys deliverance. What she lauds as a diplomatic win is, unfortunately, nothing more than the assurance of further foreign aid and not any historic empowerment of this nation. If my memory serves me right aid was given during the… Read more at Farrukh Khan Pitafi » [...] [...] by Farrukh: In a recent article entitled Democracy does deliver, a woman PPP parliamentarian has not really made the point of democracys deliverance. What she lauds as a diplomatic win is, unfortunately, nothing more than the assurance of further foreign aid and not any historic empowerment of this nation. If my memory serves me right aid was given during the… Read more at Farrukh Khan Pitafi » [...]

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