Our Prime Minister took a serious notice of the International Report on corruption, wherein among the corrupt countries in the world, Pakistan has been upgraded, due to rampant corruption in civil administration. He immediately formed a committee, which has been given the task to find out the causes, which led to the rise in corruption.
Several weeks have passed but there is no news about the committee and its deliberations. The Supreme Court is now busy with the cases of high-profile government functionaries involved in the corruption. It is amusing that former Attorney General of Pakistan was compelled to resign from the post on the pretext of taking bribes from a client, and our Prime Minister appointed him his advisor.
Similarly, when the name of a senior minister of the central cabinet surfaced in the bribery scandal, the affected minister tendered resignation from his post, but our President asked him to carry on his job as usual.
The forming of a committee to investigate the causes of corruption is nothing but an eyewash. If the government is seriously interested in the eradication of corruption from the top level, then it should bring forward and encourage those government officers, whose record is clean and they should be promoted to the highest post, so that corrupt officers could be effectively cornered.
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