Survey Results: Where Pakistan is Heading?
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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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Above 45 35 ~ 45 25 ~ 35 18 ~ 25 Below
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.