Why isn’t Pakistan able to choose the right leader?

Education is the foundation of any society. Education helps people to make the correct decisions but a country where the literacy rate is very low, how can people choose the right leader? Though the literacy rate is increasing but if we take into account the whole population (the people who will vote specifically), the number of educated people are in a small proportion.
Change is not a one or two year process so to vote for the right leader the people need to have a long term vision. They must be able to analyze and evaluate what the leader can do and what is his potential. But the problem is that the people don’t even know, would they be able to hold on to their jobs the next month or not, then how can they have long term planning. The common man can choose his leader but the question is whether he himself is capable of choosing a person who will be the president of Pakistan or not.
The problem is that people are not able to plan their future and neither are they able to judge a person. The basic is reason is again education. An educated person will just not believe in a political party’s marketing strategy. They will have a clearer idea of what is not true and that the political parties are promising just to market themselves and get votes. On the other hand the probability of the uneducated lot being fooled at the hands of politicians would be greater and this is what has been happening in Pakistan.
Another reason why people are not able to choose the right leader is the stubborn and rigid mindsets of people. Most of the people are still supporting parties which they were supporting ten years ago just because they are not able to digest a new person ruling the country, hence they don’t vote for a new person and are not able to welcome a change. The current government has simply created a menace but just since it is Mr. Bhutto’s party, people are supporting it, when the original leader himself does not exist anymore.
One of the most important reasons why people are not able to choose the right leader is lack of interest. The people of Pakistan have now become indifferent because of the damage the leaders have done to the country in the past years. This indifferent attitude is a result of mistrust in the leaders. People don’t seem to trust the leaders anymore and so the numbers of people who cast a vote are reducing.
The difference between the upper and the lower class is increasing. The upper class is able to live a king’s life, so they don’t care as to who the leader is. On the other hand, the lower class seems to think that they will remain where they are and nothing is going to change for them. The people left behind are those who represent the middle class. It is the middle class of any country which show keen interest in who they will choose to rule the country. But the problem is that the middle class is shrinking day by day and people are slipping from the middle class to the lower class.
To conclude the people of Pakistan are not able to choose the right leader because of lack education, rigid mindsets, the increasing disparity between rich and poor, the performance of leaders in the past years and the economic circumstances.

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