Immediately after the tragic death of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, this country has been a victim of intrigues and corruption by none other than those who through fake claims and opportunities benefited most from its creation. Having acquired wealth overnight, they sought political power and have ever since conspired to rob this country of its meagre finances with connivance of equally corrupt bureaucracy that had been raised and pampered by the British with abundant dole-outs of state lands. We are today in a state of mess because of a weak judiciary and lack of respect for rule of law by the establishment.
Pakistan today is on the verge of perpetual financial collapse, and consistently has been on the list of failed states and countries with least human resource development index. More than $200 billion belonging to not just our politicians, but members of the corrupt civil and uniformed bureaucracy, few traders and some pseudo-intellectuals lies in Swiss bank accounts. Like in other foreign countries that are facing similar problems of corruption and break down of state institutions, there has been not a single case where these billionaire robbers have been prosecuted and punished in Pakistan. No individual is willing to step forward to give evidence, because they have seen the fate of others who dared to do so and ended up either being murdered, or simply vanished from the face of earth.
In USA, when the state failed to get Al Capone convicted because nobody dared to give evidence against him, it was his conviction on tax evasion and concealment that brought him down. Laws were enacted thereafter to provide protection to witnesses. Unfortunately, our rulers have shown no will to end this conspiracy against the state. In the rare instance when somebody is caught, witnesses are pressurised by none other than the state to withdraw, as has happened in NICL, Hajj and Punjab Bank etc scams.
MALIK TARIQ ALI
Lahore
