{"id":13789,"date":"2017-09-11T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T11:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/jwt2015\/?p=13789"},"modified":"2019-11-18T16:48:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T11:48:19","slug":"accountability-is-good-for-democracy-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/css-exclusive\/css-special\/accountability-is-good-for-democracy-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"ACCOUNTABILITY IS GOOD FOR DEMOCRACY IN PAKISTAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ACCOUNTABILITY<\/a><\/h2>\n

1. Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n

2. What is accountability?<\/span><\/h3>\n

3. Accountability mechanism in Pakistan<\/span><\/h3>\n

a. Accountability-related laws
\nb. Accountability-related organizations and forums
\nc. Accountability-related courts<\/p>\n

4. Importance of accountability for democracy in Pakistan<\/span> <\/span><\/h3>\n

Accountability is extremely good for democracy in Pakistan:<\/p>\n

a. Proofs from the political sector<\/span><\/h3>\n

i. Improvement in legislation
\nii. Guaranteed provision of fundamental rights
\niii. Closure of the door to military coups by strict enforcement of Article 6 of the Constitution
\niv. Holding fair elections
\nv. Emergence of better and more dedicated leadership<\/p>\n

b. Proofs from the economic sector<\/span><\/h3>\n

i. Formulation of state-centric economic policies
\nii. Enhancement in foreign direct investment (FDI)
\niii. Transparent and pragmatic utilization of national resources
\niv. Considerable improvement in revenue-collection and end of budget-deficit problem
\nv. Equitable distribution of funds among provinces<\/p>\n

c. Proofs from the social sector<\/span><\/h3>\n

i. Creation of a well-aware society because of improved performance of educational institutions
\nii. Improved status of hygiene and health
\niii. Improvement in law and order situation
\niv. Implementation of merit policy in the provision of jobs
\nv. Decline in corruption<\/p>\n

d. Proofs from the administrative sector<\/span><\/h3>\n

i. Provision of justice by courts
\nii. Merit-based performance of the executive
\niii. End of red tape<\/p>\n

e. Situation of accountability in successful democracies of the world<\/span><\/h3>\n

i. The United States of America
\nii. European countries<\/p>\n

5. Causes of poor status of accountability in Pakistan<\/span><\/h3>\n

a. Political causes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

i. Lack of political will
\nii. Toothless laws
\niii. Intermittent dictatorial regimes<\/p>\n

b. Social causes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

i. Illiteracy
\nii. Social disparities
\niii. Absence of well-aware, free media since long
\niv. Failure of educational institutions to inculcate morality among students
\nv. Weak and fragile judiciary<\/p>\n

c. Economic causes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

i. Lack of resources
\nii. Poverty
\niii. Poor pay structure<\/p>\n

d. Administrative causes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

i. Weak internal controls in public sector organizations
\nii. Lack of technology
\niii. Absence of training and skills development
\niv. Weak structure of watchdog institutions
\nv. No system of performance evaluation<\/p>\n

6. Recommendation for improvement<\/span><\/h3>\n

i. Enactment of stringent laws
\nii. Mature role of political leadership
\niii. Promotion of education
\niv. Responsible and objective role of media
\nv. Focus on character-building in educational institutions
\nvi. Free and independent judiciary
\nvii. Introduction of strong internal controls
\nviii. Independence and strengthening of watchdog institutions
\nix. Revision of performance-evaluations process
\nx. Use of technology<\/p>\n

7. Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Introduction 2. What is accountability? 3. Accountability mechanism in Pakistan a. Accountability-related laws b. Accountability-related organizations and forums c. Accountability-related courts 4. Importance of accountability for democracy in Pakistan Accountability is extremely good for democracy in Pakistan: a. Proofs from the political sector i. Improvement in legislation ii. Guaranteed provision of fundamental rights iii. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,8921],"tags":[3228,9017,9015,9016,257,8438,788,9018,2945,9020,9019],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26105,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789\/revisions\/26105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}