like most of the other religion in the world Islam has also given a lot of religious privilege and sanctity to Muslim leader and rulers, due to this reason after the fourth pious caliphs till early 20th century very powerful muslim dynasties like Umayyads, Abbasid,s, Ottoman, Moghuls, Safavids and Fatimids have emerged and ruled through different time, as time passes by these dynasties make up the mind of Muslim in such a way that they started considering those monarchs as their caliphs and they make it obligatory on themselves to pay homage to their rulers thus the expansion of their kingdom was portrayed as glory to Islam, the loyalties of those ruled with their rulers continued into 20th century a time in the history when the wave of modern nationalism was rippling through the world, due to this reason out of 57 Muslim countries in total 5 to 6 has a flawed democracies otherwise their is authoritarian regime or hybrid regimes.
After Islam spread in the subcontinent some powerful Muslim dynasties like Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Dehli sultanate, Deccan sultanate and Mughal empire have ruled over the subcontinent, the same sense of submission to the monarchs and spreading of muslim kingdom as religious glory also developed among the followers of islam in subcontinent, when the British defeated the Mughals and established their rule over subcontinent the Muslim considered it as the loose of their religion and the sense of of regaining the lost glory of islam was prevailing among the Muslim of the subcontinent.
The former ruling elite of the subcontinent were aware of this sentiments of Muslims and for taking advantage of this sentiments they established a new party All India Muslim League in 1906 as the representative body of the Muslim of subcontinent, which create and propagate a sense of false nationalism among the muslim of subcontinet which altimatly lead to the formation of Pakistan, but before Muhammad Ali Jinnah became the president of Muslim league in 1937, the Muslim league was considered as party of elite as there no leader in the Muslim league from the middle class, after formation of Pakistan in 1947 the former ruling elite continued their rule over the newly born state of Pakistan, these ruling elite in the name of security and sustainability started formation of a powerful military institution to strengthen their own power but in short span of two years of time the military outshine it previous master in term of power , the election of 1965 was the defining moment which unleashed the route map of future of Pakistan ,the election for the highest office between the former governor general Muhammad Ali Jinnah's sister and military detector Ayub Khan, this election left the nation with only two choices either we have to kneel in front of the powerful ruling elite or bow down to the the dictator , the victory of the dictator in that election handed over all the power and resource of the country into the hand of military institution, and all the civilian institution the special mention are the political parties became the puppet of powerful military and it suit the military to concentrate the power of political parties into the hand of few families so that they can be easily manipulate and used in time of need thus execrative political system raise in Pakistan . The leadership of all the political parties remained in one family like Pakistan People Party leadership remain in Bhutto family , Pakistan Muslim league Nawaz remain in Sharif family, Awami national party remain in Bacha khan family, Jamait ulama islam remain in Mufti Mahmoud family are the solid proof this extractive political system of pakistan .More than anything else the extractive political system has tremendously effect the development of Pakistan .
When extractive political system developed in the country the powerful minority elite never make any law which will benefits the common citizen, because if laws are made for the benefits of the common people they will be powerful enough to challenge the authority of the ruling minorities , therefore these ruling minorities never pass any law which make the common citizen rich and powerful. so system of law developed in Pakistan are only rich friendly law.
secondly the extractive political elite will never make inclusive economic policies nor inclusive economic system sustain under extractive political institution, therefore inclusive economic system has never been developed in pakistan,. due to non inclusive economic institution the common citizen of Pakistan see no benefits from the development of the country economy, therefore they take no interest in its development and no country will develop economically as long as all of it citizen will not take part in the economy.
few families have ruled Pakistan since its independence . due to their indisputable rule they have considered themselves above the laws , due to this reason a system of two laws develop in country in which there are soft laws for the ruling elites and hard one for the common people. this two law system pave the way for injustice, corruption, nepotism , human right volition and different social inequalities in Pakistan.
the extractive political system has hindered the process of accountability of powerful people (military and politicans ) under supervision of which different mafias and no state actor have gain tremendous power in pakistan.
The ruling elite of Pakistan will never try to make inclusive political system in Pakistan as long as the nation snatch it from the hands of the aristocrats. it can be done remaining under the constitution of pakistan through proper tehreek or the other way which is through bloody revolution and rewrite a new conistitution.
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