Parliament and its role in state building.

State building is basically a process which refers to the political creation or the construction of functioning of the state. Its main purpose is to construct a society on the basis of stabilization and sustainable development right from its foundation. Since state-building is that element which actually strengthens the economic, social and political development of the state.

It is important to focus on the goals of state building, as without state-building the development simply never takes place. For example, there are dozens of poor countries in the world who comprises of weak or failed state institutions resulting in no development such as Afghanistan, Haiti and Liberia are some of the countries who are failing due to weak or no state building. State building in all the sense matters as it protects the national security of the state along with fulfilling the economic and humanitarian interests.

In the same way, there are five main goals of state building such as legitimate politics, security, justice, economic foundation and revenues service.

Legitimate politics is one of the goals of state building which indicates that how a state can foster the inclusive political settlement along with managing the conflict solution. Similarly, security focuses on providing full security to the people of the state by establishing proper security systems in the state.

Moreover, one of the important goal of state building is justice which focuses on addressing all the injustices in the society by increasing people's access to justice. In the same way, economic foundation focuses on generating the employment rate for the people along with improving their livelihood in the particular state.

Lastly, the fifth goal of state building is revenues and services which focus on managing revenue and building a capacity of accountability through different ways and means.

The goals of state building are highly important, because those goals directs the state towards the progress. In a country like Pakistan, national security is always considered as the great point of concern and is considered to be one of the important goals of state building.

Unfortunately from 2002 to 2014, Pakistan faced number of terrorist and militant attacks killing almost 19,886 civilians in all those incidents. The state was unable to provide the proper security to the people. On the other side, Pakistan's military has ruled the country for almost three decades. This has ultimately...