Corruption is a term with varying shades of meaning. Corruption is something which is considered morally wrong, which reflects dishonesty or foulness. Anyone who wants to explain it with the context of any country or specifically with the context of Pakistan must also analyse that whether dishonesty and foulness prevails within common masses or it is only an act done by the politicians and bureaucrats.
Change always come from the root level and then goes on to the upper level. Similarly, corruption always comes from the root level and spreads like a fire endangering the whole system.
Everyone who is living in Pakistan at the moment is dishonest with him or herself. Starting from the domestic level to the state level, people are engaged in several foul activities that endanger the whole system of Pakistani society. At domestic level, any person who has been given the authority to regulate the affairs of house makes corruption to fulfil his own interests. Then at societal level, anyone working in the office would want to leave before the office closing timings because he has his own priorities to catch up with. How can we possibly expect that our policy makers and politicians shall be exempt of this evil deed?
Starting from the independence movement in the sub-continent, Muslims and Hindus equally struggled against each other with Muslims wanting a separate country where they can easily practice their religion without any fear, and where they shall be independent as a nation. The success of any nation lies behind its people such as seen in the case of China. If Muslims had worked hard the way they did during the independence movement, Pakistan had surely been on the heights of success today.
People lost their sanity because they got lands and resources. As it is said: Power makes a man corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely’, we got only corrupt people.
The problem of corruption with Pakistan is not that the politicians are corrupt but because the common masses are corrupt. We, the public, are corrupt and in order to make Pakistan stand on its own feet we need to have our own self accountability. This is the only way to eradicate the evil of corruption from Pakistani society and thus from Pakistani politics, if we ever want to stand up as a nation.
ASMA JAMSHED
Lahore