Dear all, AOA
Is our society really corrupt to its core?
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If you are living in cities you must have seen many in Pakistan complaining about how corrupt our country is and expressing thr utter disappoinment, frustration and sort of "given up" attitude towards the future of thr own country. Yes, we have certain problems including corruption, but i think we exaggerate things a bit too much. Most of pakistanis live in rural society and thy r involved with agriculture, pottery, fishermen, small carpenter, cobblers etc. And they are not corrupt! They eat and earn Halal (unless they have to deal with thana kachehri which is corrupt even in rural araes). It is only so called "Educated" society in bureocracy who is suffering frm this mennace of corruption, favoritism, nepotism, inferiority complex, lack of identity etc.
In cities the people who are involved with middle and lower level management of private firms, thr is very small corruption. At the top level in order to get government sections, approvals or tenders the firm owners have to deal with bribe tec but they don't allow thr employees for sure to be involved with corruption. The people who work on daily wages in factories don't have many avenues to be corrupt. Or the mazdoors, rehri wala, small owners of convinient stores, dry cleaners, darzi, are not seriously corrupt!
Most of us don't know that until late 1980's our politicians were not financially corrupt! Liaquat alo khan, Muhammad ali bogra, Hussain shaheed suharwardy, Ayub Khan, Iskander mirza, Ghullam muhammad or Zulfikar Ali bhutto were never charged with corruption. They had many other problems but politics was not for making money.
So, where is corruption staming from that bothers us?
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I think following are the most corrupt areas of Pakistan
1- Bureaocracy: If you go in any sacraitariat, education department of govt(boards including), health departments, etc they won't talk to you until u show thm Quaid-e-Azam!
2- Public-service department: Like wapda, railway, Sui gas, they are really corrupt to the core.
3- Polics stations and Courts: I won't be exaggerating if I say they work on "Rules of Jungle" or even worst thn that. Policemen are fathers of iblees, Judges are sallable, and lawyers are liers. They don't do much corruption in terms of quantity like Establishment does but they directly suck the blood of common people that's why i have labled thm as above.
4- Establishment: which include Political leaders/ARMY generals/Industrialist/Feudal lords, most of thm today are involved with corruption.
5- Doodh wala: This is odd entry but I'm sure you will all agree these guys are corrupt!
6- Doctors and Medical Stores: Well its not any professional jealousy as I myself am an engineer but really the fees that you guys charge, (at least 500 Rs for 15 min + 1000 Rs xtra for medicines) is too much. You are next to Policeman and courts of Pakistan as far as direct blood sucking of awam is concerned. As far as engineers go the roads we make last until thr first rain, buildings stand until thr is an earthquake and providing you electronics goods and telecommunication makes us really noble thn you! Medical strores get thr inspiration from you guys and owners of pharmaceutical industries.
How to bring change and get rid of this?
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It is said in Pakistan that being educated means a person without balls because education bring certain sophistication, culture and sensitivities in your personality and eventually making you timid. It has become a common phrase in our society that, "yar hum sharif log hum badmashon say panga kion lain?" I think we give in so easily to be exploited by others, and have already made our minds that ok if some one is asking for bribe we have to pay him/her, otherwise we won't get our work done alternatively we must have support of some "Big hand" for getting our things fone. The most educated city of Pakistan is karachi and every body who lives thr first came under the dada-giri of JI and thn the worst dadagiri along with all terrorist activities of MQM!
Most of us fear that, if we didn't pay bribe our works wont get done or our works will get delayed and why shud WE bother to resist and bring change in society so we end up deciding to pay illegal few bucks for our legal things. Unfortunately this pattern is widespread and consistent in our society and shows how selfish we are by not realising that we are actually being part of promoting this curse in our society. Thn the only way thr remains for changing our society is by "miracle" and that's wat we all expect...a miracle to happen!
Only if we at individual level start resisting at first, by threatning to launch a complaint if he is asking for bribe etc thn slowly things will start change. Believe me such threat works more thn 50% of times!
I would appreciate other views on this topic.
Thanks for reading.
Regards
Fahim
