Democratic form of government in spite of having many advantages also contains some disadvantages. Its disadvantages can be explained as under with the context of socio – political conditions of our country:
i. Rule of ignorant and incompetent: - Plato criticizes the democracy as it stands for the rule of ignorant and incompetent persons. Aristotle, his disciple, calls it as perverted form of government. Pakistan where illiteracy rate is at peak, the survival of democracy in such circumstances is very low. Therefore, democracy, in Pakistan, means the rule of incompetent and ignorant, elected by illiterate.
ii. Quantity rather than quality: - Democracy, as explained by Allama Muhammad Iqbal, stands for the virtue of quantity rather than of quality. Since most of the legislatures in Pakistan are not qualified, the fate of bills and any legislative process is decided by them. Thus, they can not provide a suitable and sustainable constitution for the country.
iii. Expensive form of government: - Democracy assigns and creates more than enough ministries so that it can get the approval and satisfaction of the masses. The burden of ministries causes expensiveness which is not affordable for the governments like Pakistan.
iv. Majority rule: - Democracy, as defined earlier, means the rule of majority. Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, on the same basis, criticized and condemned the democratic form of government since it was harmful for Indian Muslims who were in minority in Indo Pak subcontinent.
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