Corruption is the mother of many other evils, like bribery, favouritism, nepotism, misuse of authority, breach of trust, deliberate delays and denial of justice in the performance of duty. Pakistan was demanded and established in the name of Islam in which all the Pakistanis were expected to lead life according to the righteous and virtuous principles of Islam.
Pakistanis were expected to earn their livelihood by lawful means but in the quest of becoming overnight rich Pakistanis have engulfed in materialism and have become deliberately negligent about the distinction between the lawful and the unlawful.
Corruption has become a cancer for Pakistan’s economy. According to a rough estimate, about 40 percent of government revenue is eaten up by dishonest businessmen and industrialists by evasion of government taxes with the unholy alliance of the bureaucrats in charge of taxation departments. The government is incessantly forced to take loans from international financial institutes just to run their normal functions.
This social, moral and religious evil can be curbed only by enacting a law to make it punishable with capital punishment, with the corrupt bureaucrats and government officials publicly hanged or stoned to death. These black sheep of our society have made our country a corrupt republic.
SANA ASLAM
Karachi
