Corruption-Eating Away From Inside Out!

 Corruptions which can also be identified as the most exclusive matter for the present news broadcasts, categorically owns intense significance. This term is specifically applied to self-benefiting conduct by public officials and others dedicated to public service or those who possess power.

 According to a famous Turkish proverb, “Fish starts rotting from head”, exactly in the comparable way the roots of corruption start mounting from the top of the society. Rotting process begins from top but spreads all over till it reaches to the roots; similarly corruption commences from the top but doesn’t stagger moving to the lower ranked officers. That’s how this horrifying ulcer reaches to our society. This terrible ulcer tares each institution, organization, association or system apart! It eats way our society from inside out!

 It is equivalent to a virus which wipes away the white blood cells of a human body and makes it indefensible against minor infections. Corruption makes a state consequently unstable. The economic or financial status of a country gets a hold of severe collapse. After that the state has be depolarized or dependent of international aid and get the burdens of international banks’ loan which amplify each year. On the other hand, the country’s image through out the world gets a rigorous collision. It loses the trust, the diplomatic policies, the political standards and interactions with allies. It won’t take long for that country to be named as a failed state.

 There is not merely one specific country in the entire world which had been victimized by the dreadful virus of corruption unfortunately there are several. Some have been inadequately destroyed by corruption while several are just in the journey of devastation. Taking a glimpse at the state where we live can be the best matter to be considered curiously, since we belong to this state today anyhow. Being a democratic country, the government had got three institutions widely known as executive, legislature and judiciary, but a corrupt system which has failed to maintain the peace, justice and social security of the nation, might not possess any right to keep any other authority. As far as parliament is concerned, the members have disregarded legislation which their main duty is, but they have been very busy with elections, vote of no confidence and blaming each other.

  The most interesting fact might be about our political leaders, from minister to a minor chairman, all might even don’t know how to count the amount they either keep in the pockets or in the international banks these days. Robberies, larceny and thefts are specially done after getting permitted by the police. As most of them are the grubbers of money but who cares about the law and the increasing crime in the country. Courts were already sold but now the trade of justice is really common. Along with this, the pilgrims have to pay additional money for Hajj in Islamic Democratic Countries every year. We can assume, how distasteful it just sounds. Every one seems to be engaged in filling up pockets before the governance ends, but in between the deprived populace have always had to tolerate each new government, they elected through out the history of the six decades.  

 Commencing from 1948, this country entered an era during which corruption dominated the political scene and domestic conditions deteriorated. In collier’s year book, a Philippine proverb defines the prospect clearly, “Nothing destroys iron like its own rust”. Similarly, the responsible groups are not any outsiders, but they are the natives of this country who possess power or who once possessed authority. In the flash back we might find several politicians who were accused of corruption. Like wise; during Ayub Khan’s government, 1,660 civil servants were either arrested or retired in charges of corruption. Along with that in May 1988, Zia ul Haq dismissed the Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo, the whole cabinet and dissolved the National Assembly along with all provincial assemblies. But corruption had grown roots all around and it was complicated to end such a terrible social ulcer. So, as a result corruption kept on deteriorating the                                                                                             system.

  In June 1996, during the Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s government, the country had to struggle with severe financial crisis following the collapse of economy. Political as well as economic crisis continued during Prime Minister Nawaz Shareef’s government. Along with numerous corruption charges, finally after the atomic experiments, international aids halted. Pakistan lost its status as a member of the Common Wealth Countries. Once more the country had to suffer serious financial crash. The crisis continued till the dictator government favored America after 9/11 in 2001. Astrictions over international aid were taken back but this didn’t improve the economic circumstances of the country because the corrupt politicians continued to grub the national treasure. In 2006, according to the CNN, IBN and Dawn news corruption reached to the highest peaks of the history of the country and Asian Development Bank decleared Pakistan as the financially weakest state of Continent Asia. President Zardari’s government in addition was not back in the chase regarding satisfying his pouch with wealth from the national treasurer. Crises continue till today in another democratic government.

 Corruption changes a state’s image dramatically. No justice, no peace and no social security, the things on the spot are injustice, robberies, abductions, strikes, murders and blasts. When the financial or economic conditions of a state deteriorate, every institution gets affective. It is something to be considered that a country rich with agriculture and hundreds of natural resources that can support it without any international aid has collapsed economically. This will certainly happen, if the government is handed over to some corrupt groups.