Ahsan Ali Khan
Pakistan has enjoyed a colorful yet disappointing political history since its inception. The political history of Pakistan is an analysis of the country’s political events, ideologies, movements, and leadership. Pakistan has seen three constitutions in its history along with martial laws and inefficient leaders.
In order to develop, a country must have a robust governance environment. The prerequisite for development is excellent governance in which the incentives between political leaders, public figures, and citizens are aligned, because political leaders are not only responsible for formulating policies but also managing and monitoring public officials to ensure the effective implementation of reforms. Since its independence, Pakistan has been struggling to find its identity, defining itself and has been under efficient and inefficient leaderships. Pakistan made a significant growth in the early years due to good leaderships and governance. But different inefficient leaders slowed the growth due to poor legislations and policies time and again. Moreover, being a country with diverse culture and over twenty different languages, Pakistan constantly tried very hard to evolve a political system.
Unfortunately, Pakistan’s political background overall has been satisfactory despite being under the influence of disappointing leaders. Currently, Pakistan ranks 93 among 153 countries in political empowerment rankings by the Global Gender Gap Report 2020.
Talking in terms of Pakistan’s potential, according to the World Bank Report 2019, by the year 2047 Pakistan will be able to achieve sustainable growth if it learns a lesson from its history. Although it is ambitious to achieve such a growth in 30 years, but many other countries have done it too. If Pakistan learns from its previous mistakes and carries on the right path towards economic and political transformation, it can attain the target of sustainable growth.
The author Ahsan Ali Khan, currently interning at Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS). Completing Bachelors in Sociology from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
