Corruption in Pakistan is as old as the country itself. With every passing day it is growing in magnitude and strength. No institution, no organisation, no government department and no agency is free from corruption. However, all Pakistanis are not corrupt. Honest individualism have been marginalised in Pakistan, a country created in the name of Islam.
The corrupt are the most powerful in this land of the pure.
Though corruption was not as widespread as now forty years back but the corrupt were as powerful then as at this point in time. Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan, interior minister in the government of ZA Bhutto, once said in an interview: “If anybody raises voice against the corrupt mafia, he will be killed.” This interview should be available in the archives of PTV.
The statement of a politician of integrity explains why no Ana Hazare stands up against the corrupt mafias in Pakistan as it has become home to corruption, mismanagement and bad governance.
