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Democracy in Pakistan

The word democracy comes from Greek word ‘demos’ meaning rule of people. In fact, the famous form of government also originated in one of the historical cities of Greek, Athens. World needs to thank this birthplace of democracy. However, In Pakistan, democracy is still in its infancy stages and undergoing an evolutionary process. The founding father of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah, envisioned Pakistan as a purely democratic state. However, he inherited a weak political party. The worst part was his early demise just after one year of the birth of Pakistan. The political intuitions, judiciary, law enforcing agencies and parliament were not established yet. Pakistan lacked genus and trained supply of skillful politicians and civil servants initially. This lack of infrastructure meant a topsy-turvy, instable and uncertain future of democracy. Another big blow to the system was subsequent military coups. The civil military tensions grew as early as this nation state came into being....
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The Dancing Girl Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa are two of the sites where once the great Indus Valley Civilization resided, Several artifacts, tools and other founding’s are collected which made archaeologists and historians to predict the language, culture, tradition, social , economic and political scenario of this ancient civilization. I am going to focus on remain that is a bronze statuette of a dancing girl which is present at the National Museum of Delhi, its almost 4500 years old, 10.5 centimeters high, found at HR area of Mohenjo-Daro in 1926. The delicate and skillful carving of bronze into statue reflects that they were artistic individuals who had the expertise in shaping the complex designing of this and other models. Moreover, they knew complicated methods of thrashing, melting, casting and other aspects of metallurgy. They possibly possessed the knowledge of metals and making of alloys, furthermore they might have grasped the knowledge of the characteristics of malleabil...