write an essay on “Corruption in Pakistan
Corruption in Pakistan
In plain words corruption is an act done by an - individual or a group of people or an organization or a government in power in pursuance of monetary benefits, grabbing influence and power to promote personal gains -all through illegitimate means violating the law of the land, norms of social, religious and political ethics, denying human rights and inflicting losses on others for personal reasons.
Pakistan is now in existence for a pretty long period. During far lesser periods, the South. Asian States have achieved 10.0% education while Pakistan continues to be 42% illiterate. Pakistan is dominated by a few ultra rich potentates on the one hand and teeming millions caught up in a vortex of poverty, on the other.
Consequently, if the system is permitted to persist, state of corruption will go from bad to worse gradually. No anti-corruption policy will ever succeed as it has been amply demonstrated in the past. Any anti-corruption measure that was ever adopted, ultimately went up in smoke.
The scourge of corruption was identified at the very birth of Pakistan by no less a person than Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He said, “One of the biggest curses from which the country is suffering is bribery and corruption.
We must put it down with an iron hand." Sadly the warning was not heeded during the decades for which Pakistan has lived so far. Why the Warning of the Father of the Nation was disregarded is a question that no one is prepared to answer. Instead of containing and eliminating corruption, it has actually been promoted in a big way. Today it has assumed such alarming proportions that
Senator S.M. Zafar, an eminent lawman, a jurist, a constitutionalist, had to remark that Pakistan had become 'tsunami' of corruption and it had penetrated all areas of human life. He said so on the occasion of the celebration of International Anti-Corruption Day. observed on 9th December, 2006.
A seminar on “Review and Improvement of Anti-corruption Efforts in Pakistan” was held which was presided over by Chief Justice (r) Dr. Javaid Iqbal and attended by eminent and high profile intellectuals of the country. In his address Dr. Javaid Iqbal said, “we talk and grumble about corruption but do not take tangible steps to weed out this menace from the society.” Others also spoke and gave different evidences to prove that corruption was rampant in the country but none would prefer to define the causes that lay behind corruption and none dared to suggest how best to get rid of this menace. A few routine suggestions were, however, made that meant to fill in the blanks only and were not of any real practical significance.
Concluding, concentration of wealth, political power and authority of discretion in fewer hands, will be strictly guarded against.
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