Army the most trustworthy institution in Pakistan, survey reveals
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army has emerged as the most trustworthy institution in the country, a survey carried out by the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (Pildat) said Tuesday.
The same survey recognised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as the most popular political leader in Pakistan with an approval rating of 75 per cent.
A review of the current leadership of the country shows that the people of Pakistan have contrasting views on the most trustworthy leaders in the country.
The results have been released from a two-part survey covering separately the quality of governance and democracy.
The survey was first conducted upon the completion of the first year of the national and provincial assemblies and the government in office in May 2014.
The nationwide poll was conducted again from June 2 to 12, 2015, following the completion of the second year of the assemblies and the government.
Institutions
The survey shows that Pakistan’s Armed Forces are leading as the most trustworthy institution, with an approval rating of 75pc.
Similarly, the Supreme and High Courts of Pakistan earned a strong approval Rating of 63 per cent, the print and electronic media 55pc and 54pc respectively, the National Assembly was characteristic of an approval rating of 49pc, followed by the civil courts at 43pc and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was able to earn an approval rating of 37pc.
The respondents for the survey included 3,231 citizens from rural and urban areas from all the four provinces, including various age, income, education and language groups of the population.
Political parties
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had the highest approval amongst the population, with 70pc of the respondents rating the party’s competence highly. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) followed with an approval rating of 44pc. The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) were approved of by 40pc and 36pc of the respondents respectively.
In contrast, all other political parties included in this poll generated relatively lower approval levels of their competence. At the end of second year of the survey, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) emerged as the most negatively rated political party in the country with an approval rating 14pc.
Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri’s Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) received a relatively low rating at 19pc, the Awami National Party (ANP) was favourably voted for by 21pc and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam- Fazl (JUI-F) had only slightly higher rating at 23pc.
High-scoring core democracy indicators
At the completion of the second year of the current Parliament and Provincial Assemblies, 66pc of the respondents approve of the overall quality of democracy in Pakistan.
Low Scoring Core Democracy Indicators
Others
A substantial 80pc of the respondents say that holding local government (LG) elections nationwide are somewhat to very important while only 11pc believe that holding these elections is not very important or not important at all, the survey showed.
As many as 59 per cent of the respondents believed that the elections 2013 were somewhat to completely transparent and fair.
On the contrast, 30 per cent of them saw the polls as somewhat to completely rigged. For the democracy survey conducted at the end of the first year of the elected government, 53 per cent of the respondents believed that the 2013 election were completely to somewhat transparent and fair and 37 per cent thought they were somewhat to completely rigged.
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Oct 20, 2015 03:40pm
Is PILDAT reliable now? question for those who blame PILDAT as biased surveyor regarding popularity of PM .
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Oct 20, 2015 03:42pm
Sample size of just over 3,000 can't be representative of 200 million people.
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Oct 20, 2015 03:43pm
Results of this survey are already known generally. What people would like to know what are the debilitating elements eating the roots of the society like termite? The most import surveys would be about the performances against expectations of organizations like WAPDA and its Power distribution companies, FBR and its field establishments, Police, FIA, NAB, CDA , PIA and all the provincial Governments.
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Oct 20, 2015 03:56pm
Police with an approval rate of 32% says it's rigged!
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Oct 20, 2015 03:59pm
Is FATA included in Pakistan?? Could you please get opinion from FATA people
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Oct 20, 2015 04:03pm
You cant call it a survey, how can 3000+ opinion can be called credible, for God sake see the ground realities
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Oct 20, 2015 04:07pm
Indeed seemed,exact survey of PILDAT.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:08pm
Thanks Pakistan Armed Forces. The nation is proud of you.
Thanks General Raheel Sharif.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:11pm
Some contradiction in the survey. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had the highest approval amongst the population, with 70pc and at the same time Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was able to earn an approval rating of 37pc.
That's in stark contrast with each other. Doesn't reflect the true picture.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:13pm
Looks like 3000 people from RAIWIND or 3000 passengers of Metro Bus.
God help Pakistani awam as the have 50% faith in the leaders they follow!!
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Oct 20, 2015 04:14pm
@Salman One can blindly say that Army & Gen. Raheel is the most popular leader but....
in a country where there is democracy & in that democracy people who claimed they have the most experienced team...... wouldn't you agree, no electricity, no gas, no clean drinking water, no health facilities, no justice, police tortures at its highest, incidents like kasur etc... nandipur, solar power, local govt funds, metro etc corruption allegations.... how come PILDAT say on 0.000015 % votes our PM most popular bhai.... can you deny the above....?
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Oct 20, 2015 04:24pm
It is very true, they are trustworthy. As compared to other institutions like NA, PA and Senate. Arm forces senior most members are from middle class families. That is the reason when they become in charge of this country they try to solve problems of middle and lower classes. On the other hand, NA, PA and members of Senate belongs to different class, they are landlords, and have very least knowledge of Middle class and lower class people's problem.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:26pm
@iffi Gen Raheel Sharif is COAS not the leader let me correct you..let him do his job to elimate terrorism and which he has done briliantly instead of engaging him to lead this country or People like previous Chiefs had done .
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Oct 20, 2015 04:28pm
poor survey
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Oct 20, 2015 04:31pm
@Salman definitely not reliable ..... 3200 i.e 0.000015 % out of 200 million people, how can that be reliable....
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Oct 20, 2015 04:33pm
It reflect the tribal mentality of the society that we trust the institution most than anything else. At the expense of army all the other institute suffered badly.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:37pm
You must be kidding... This is the worst survey of century.. Absolutely pathetic...
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Oct 20, 2015 04:40pm
The representative sample of 3000 is far too small to extrapolate a fair opinion from a population of 200m! This survey is not a true representative of how the public feels, therefore unreliable.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:42pm
No body likes Nawaz Sharif but u have to give him credit for how smoothly he is playing his cards this time. The last time he acted immaturely he had to pay with a long term exile and if he does it again he knows he would have to face the country's contempt and disregard...Pakistan Has Matured...No more games.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:45pm
PILDAT is not trust worthy. Their survey does not represent a true picture.
They need to learn how to conduct a survey. Learn from the West or come to the United States.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:57pm
@Salman its COAS who is doing his job & that too brilliantly, while our so called experienced team is failing miserably.... what want our govt to do is implement austerity measures & not to spend tax payers money lavishly like kings... plus we want them to pay taxes rather squeezing the already squeezed salaried class & small businessmen .... if pm pays 5000 tax how come he asks anyone to pay more & more...
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Oct 20, 2015 05:16pm
It is an engineered survey,as it does not match with the results of very recent bye elections held in the three constituencies in the Punjab.
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Oct 20, 2015 05:23pm
Did they survey in Lahore?
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Oct 20, 2015 05:24pm
From the rating given to Pakistan Army, it can be concluded that the ISPR has been very successful in turning around the image of the Army.
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Oct 20, 2015 05:47pm
Everyone knows it. We don't need any servey
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Oct 20, 2015 05:50pm
@Jainy they are our people that is why they left home for the army to clean up terrorist......for some that say now is the survey rigged.....survey is rigged but whether you ask anybody from Sindh to KPK to Punjab To Baluchistan to AK and FATA army is the most trusted organization
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Oct 20, 2015 06:14pm
PTI fans will keep living in denial even after 2018 elections LOL - The world has moved on. Today politics is based on issues not personal grudges & propagandas. A fine example is yesterday's elections in Canada. The guy who came with the "Change" slogan and who clean swept it did not get help from lotas from status-quo parties. He had only opposed the govt policies, put forth his vision & policies and played it decently.
IK was my hero, but instead of focusing on issues his only issue seems to be NS. Seriously, he could do a lot better. NS learned from the past and changed and changed for the better. Instead of making NS mistakes his wisdom he is only following his footprints: 90s politics, power politics and so on. The point is, PTI fans should not cry over this kind of survey results if you are blindly ignoring your leader's repeated mistakes.
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Oct 20, 2015 06:18pm
@Taher Kureshi This is called sampling, a very reliable, cost effective, and proven statistical method that is used worldwide. Census is too expensive and prone to errors.
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Oct 20, 2015 06:32pm
@Old Ravian - It can be if the survey study follows Statistical Science. In absence of Statistical rigours, no sample size can be indicative or predictive.
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Oct 20, 2015 06:46pm
wonder why the army is not in power....we don't care about democracy...if we have to choose between two it is better to choose the lesser one
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Oct 20, 2015 06:50pm
With all the corruption cases like LNG, NANIDIPUR, METRO BUS ETC still PML N got 70 pct. Where were survey taken at Sharif's palace. Get real please.
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Oct 20, 2015 06:52pm
I have some doubt about the numbers. Pakistan army in reality would have close to 90% to 95% approval rating
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Oct 20, 2015 07:10pm
Army is definitely the best but how come Nawaz come on top ? There is something wrong.
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Oct 20, 2015 07:12pm
Great news/survey.
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Oct 20, 2015 07:47pm
A small sample size is indeed representative of the large population in statistics, as long as there is no sampling bias (i.e some parts of the population were not left out etc).
It is discouraging to see civil institutions score less compared to the armed forces - hope this trend can be reversed.
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Oct 20, 2015 08:06pm
Yes Army os the most trustworthy institution. There is absolutely no doubt about it. In addition we have the best COAS Genral Raheel Shareef leading our great armed forces.
Pakistan Zindabad
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Oct 20, 2015 08:10pm
@Salman;
'Is PILDAT reliable now? question for those who blame PILDAT as biased'
No, not at all. Army and Nawaz Sharif both at 75%, totally absurd. ANP has 21% approval rating in Pakistan but they could not get 21% votes in KPK, what nonsense!!.
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Oct 20, 2015 08:25pm
By declaring the Pakistan Army as the most trustworthy institution in the country, which no doubt it is, the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (Pildat) want to make its survey credible. It is rubbish – people don’t have clean water to drink, virtually no electric supply, no gas, no health care and no jobs. Financial terrorism at its peak.
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Oct 20, 2015 08:26pm
Let us assume Mian Sahib has a 100% support in Punjab, that gives him 62 percentage-points. That means Mian Sahib has another 13 percentage-points drawn from the remaining 38% of the Pakistani population, that is a more than 33% support in the rest of Pakistan. I can assure you Mian Sahib does not have 0.33% support in Karachi. I haven't met anybody in Karachi who supports Mian Sahib and believe me I have met educated middle-class people in Karachi who believe Zardari is an honest man.
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Oct 20, 2015 08:33pm
so the conclusion .....army is better democracy ....we get it
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Oct 20, 2015 09:01pm
Long live Pak Armed Forces.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:10pm
Not Even Close.....
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Oct 20, 2015 09:41pm
will be hard for PTI followers now to question PILDAT credibility as their mentors have got highest ratings . PTI tigers will be v confused whether to endorse this survey or not
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Oct 20, 2015 11:05pm
I think this survey is not reliable and their sample size is not scientifically presented to 19 crore people of views but inspite of this the army respect day by day increase due against zarb haduf, karachi operation and specilly avoiding politics .
PPP and N leaug are two different shape of one coins, so it is wrong with public of pakistan
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Oct 20, 2015 11:07pm
General Raheel Sharif revived the trust
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Oct 21, 2015 03:05am
Need for politicians to stop corrupt practices and build their reputation so they can be trusted..
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Oct 21, 2015 04:19am
We can't live by survey alone!
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Oct 21, 2015 04:20am
@khanm i disagree for two reasons;
1. All countries build armies to protect the borders from external breaches and they are to obey the civilian elected governments and NOT grab and rule the country.
2. We fought British for independence so we can have our Government for the People, By the People and NOT to be under another set of GUNS.
Remember no matter how bad a Democratic Government is, it is many times better than Army/ Dictator's rule.
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Oct 21, 2015 05:12am
A survey can show you whatever you want.
So far everybody is only quoting numbers none is telling about how the survey was conducted?
Population spread, demographics, most importantly questionnaire ... what question yield the approval rating? what exactly was asked?
Until all this information is available and understood it is meaningless.
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Oct 21, 2015 06:50am
Pakistan is the only countries in Asia who has been from the very beginning bashing army as the main pillar of the nation; and the end result is that it doesn't have kept sufficient space to to be developed other organs except the 'Uniforms'.
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Oct 21, 2015 07:12am
Its about time that the Pakistan Armed Forces be given their due & well earned constitutional role in Pakistani politics, only to supervise and watch politicians' governance and not actually running the government themselves.
It is something that has worked for Pakistan, each and every time it was tried, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly.
This is the way, in fact, is done in most countries, including established democracies. It only needs to be subtle and more covert. The onus, thus, remains upon politicians to keep it that way.
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Oct 21, 2015 08:17am
Army is above the government which is elected by the people. When people are not trustworthy how can the government elected by them be trustworthy. Rahil is correct.
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Oct 21, 2015 09:56am
Isn't it curious that the PM's and the army's ratings are tied at 75%?
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Oct 21, 2015 10:27am
What areas were covered during the survey?
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Oct 21, 2015 11:33am
Well done PILDAT at least you have started people talking and putting things in perspective. Those people who want to sample all 200 million people can wait. It is a good start and we will wait for next sample. Finally elections will prove how right you were.
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Oct 21, 2015 06:43pm
The servey has been taken in Punjab. So let have servey in each capital of the province.
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Oct 21, 2015 08:59pm
@Javid - Germany;
'The servey has been taken in Punjab.'
The survey has been taken in Jati Umra.
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Oct 22, 2015 12:45am
I love it when people respect the military.
I pray Pakistan's military continues to uphold the greatest integrity.
Wayne
Luvsiesous.com
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