On Secrets
The OSA gives legal cover to the executive to label anything as secret information and prevent its disclosure. It is irrelevant whether this information may, for example, expose government corruption or misconduct. Insulating the state from accountability and transparency – two hallmarks of democracy.
Senate Reform
If the PTI is serious about making a better Senate then it should bring together a cross-section of experts and parliamentarians to provide recommendations on this issue. This is something that both the opposition and the government need to work together on if they want to end the cycle of horse-trading that continues to cheapen our democracy.
Making Politics Work
To make our politics work, to make sure that our people come to trust this process rather than the dictatorship model, we must implement the Constitution’s guarantee of local governments. To be sure, in order to implement these steps our elected parliamentarians would have to give up their own power. They would have to put the interests of the people before their own. Yet, our politicians should note that if they fail to make these changes then we will be left with a broken political system in which people will lose trust day by day.