WHERE PAKISTAN IS HEADING …?A Survey exploring the Hindsight of Educated Class on

where Pakistan is and where should it go?

SYNOPSIS

� Looking at the Survey results from 408 respondents on a wide variety of issues, the following clearly emerges:

� A majority of Pakistanis have a negative outlook on the situation in the country.

� The top three problems identified by Pakistanis are as follows:

� Lack of leadership

� Corruption� Corruption

� Illiteracy

� A majority of respondents feel that an Islamic way of life is the best system

� Malaysia, a modern, developed Muslim state is seen as a role model for Pakistan to evolve into

� There is no clear understanding of how an individual can help bring change and reform into society

ANALYSIS

The survey results show that there is an embedded feeling of hopelessness amongst most

Pakistanis about their current situation. The problems they have identified as top priorities for

the country are not secular in nature i.e. poverty, feudalism etc but rather morality based in

nature. For e.g. corruption and lack of integrity amongst our leadership is a failure of morals of

us collectively as a nation. Hence the answer to the top problems in the country is also a

value based moral system rather than a secular system such as democracy or capitalism.

Moreover, most of the respondents look up to Malaysia as an ideal example of where they

would like to see Pakistan rather than Saudi Arabia which actually has the closest semblance

to an Islamic system in place (albeit far from perfect). Hence even though the respondents

would like to think that an Islamic system is the solution to their problems, they would rather

live in Malaysia where most of their problems would be solved without an Islamic system – but

a Muslim face rather than Saudi Arabia – which actually is far more institutionally Islamic than

Malaysia even though it is far from flawless in terms of Islamic systems themselves.

STATISTICS

408 …The Total Number of Respondents

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Age Profile

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Phd MS Graduate Or Below Other

Educational Profile

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Employed Self- Employed Student Retired Other

Occupational Profile

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250 Geographical Location

THE ANSWERS …

To The Questions ...

Excellent1%

Good2%

Average15%

Worst

Q1: How do you rank present political, economic and law & order situation of Pakistan?

Bad37%

Worst45%

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200 Q2: In you opinion what are the top most problems faced by Pakistan?

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Lack of

leadership

Corruption Iliteracy Other Religious

Extremism

Silence of

masses over

major national

issues

Self centered

approach of

Individuals

Feudalism Corrupt

Judiciary

Weak law

enforcement

agencies

Poverty

Secular Democracy / Capitalism or free markete economic

system24%

Other8%

Q3:Till to-date, the world has seen several different ways to manage the state of affairs of a country, in you opinion which of the following is best suited to solve problems of Pakistan?

Communism / centrally planned economic

system 7%

Monarchy2%

Islamic way of life comprising of its unique sociocultural, economic and political system

59%

Japan10%

Iran11%

Other14%

Q4: Which of the following countries will Pakistan be like after required Improvement?

Malaysia33%

Saudi Arabia11%Germany

5%

China16%

He should responsibly elect suitable

government, and wait to see how things turn up

19%

He should make a

Its systems fault, an individual cannot do any

thing7%

He doesn't have time to think about all of the above

2%

Other6%

Q5: What should be the role of any individual to bring reforms in the country?

He should raise his voice against any issues

creating disturbance in the country at any level.

29%

He should take active part in the protest against

creating disturbance in the country at any level.

15%

He should make a constructive contribution in his circle of influence only

and forget whats happening at macro level.

22%

IN THE END WE CAN SEE…

The most critical take away from this survey is that even

though there is consensus on what the problems and solutions

are for society at a macro level, at the individual level there is a lot

of confusion. Perhaps it is because we are all trying to solve the

problems of society in our own little silos – reinventing the

wheel, each generation, each sub-group – that we cannot

leverage the enormous synergies that will be created if we all first

collectively decide what all of us need to do at an individual level

and then going ahead and doing it to bring reform in society.