December 18, 2009
I saw people congratulating each other as the decision on NRO unfolded. I myself felt excite and congratulated many friends on face book and whom I came across immediately after the decision. The happiness was short lived. As I woke up in the next morning the immediate thought was, what this means to me.
The immediate response was because of the happiness as the strong and those who have been the cause of disturbances at the helm of power are been checked. But the next thought was : “what about me “ How will I going to cope this decision when it will affect my being .
What will happen if I have to file an application with the police, and I do not pay the bribe compulsory with every application?
What will happen that if my electricity bill comes more than I expect and I do not go the line man or meter reader to get it sorted?
What will happen if I as doctor stop diagnosing people correctly thus reducing my income?
What will happen if I stop prescribing a medicine which gives me a large commission as compared to one manufactured by a quality company giving good product but less commission?
What will happen if I will start putting the building material in correct ration while constructing a house on contract thus reducing my profit?
What will happen if I start telling my clients correctly about the problems in their vehicles as a mechanic thus reducing my income?
What will happen if I start to teach the children in school and stop taking tuitions?
What will happen if as a student stop cheating?
What will happen if meters will appear in the taxis?
What will happen if I stop running away from the scene after hitting a by stander while driving my car and taking the casualty to the hospital and reporting the incident to the police?
What will happen if start dishing out the rights of my family correctly and honestly?
What will happen if I start paying the workers who work in my fields and factories as per their effort?
What will happen if I will stop blackmailing weak and suppressed?
What will happen if I will get the registry of my house at its actual rate?
What will happen if I start to declare my income as it is and start payig the tax?
What will happen if I start to weigh the commodities actually thus again reducing my profit?
What will happen if stop doing adultery in every walk of life?
What will happen to my pleasure which I get by undertaking adultery in every discipline of life?
What will happen if I will doing every thing honestly thus reducing my profit?
The list of our adulteration is unending unfortunately……..
First Ayub Khan by handing over the domain of the people in the hands of a corrupt person Yehya Khan and than Zia ul Haq was the ruler whose policies perhaps not intentionally, promoted corruption in Pakistan on wide spread scale, by promoting hypocrisy and the law of necessity all round the society. From a house wife to a pedestrian and from a school going child to a beggar on street, we all are involved in corruption of some sort.. We are in habit of declaring our rulers as corrupt. But why are they corrupt this we are not ready to realze. Who corrupts them is beyond our imagination.
The bitter answer is that its we who corrupts them. For our convenience and for our job to be done quickly and for the sake of earning a bit more than what we may earn if we are honest, corrupts our rulers. Our rulers start from patwari going up to the President of Pakistan. Perhaps the reason behind for Zardari starting corruption was when he was a common man had to pay something in bribe for a job which may be true and clean, resultantly the present reaction. continued. We forget that one of the common man ultimately reaches to the helm of affairs may it be patwari, SHO or the president of Pakistan. All these political leaders were common men and women once. And obviously today when they do not feel ashamed to undertake corruption, obviously, for the simple reason, being part of us as we know of their corruption they know of our corruption. Today also Zardari and all those accused of undertaking corruption by termination of NRO, must be thinking what will happen if we stand down, will corruption end in Pakistan? Will that patwari, reader of the judge, the judge himself, the lawyers who appear so noisy in the streets but even their leader too charged 1.5 corers from a corrupt to plead his corruption knowingly , compounder of a hospital, the doctor, the quack, A SI sitting in reporting room of the thana, a ticket checker in the railway, a cricketer in the field, engineers and administrators in the steel mill, factories, railways and PIA, , teachers and students in the schools, shop keepers in their shops, business men and women in their businesses , taxi walas, in their taxis , agriculturist in their fields will stop corruption. They are correct, if the entire Pakistan will not stop after this decision of supreme court, so why must they step down!
We must remember if we want our rulers to be honest and upright, it will be us who must be honest and up right foremost. Yesterday our defense minister was stopped by the FIA at the airport because his name is in ECL. You tell me what will you feel if one day you are barred from getting on board a train, bus or airplane on plea that you are corrupt. How would you feel? Even if you may have done the corruption at some level, which we no doubt undertake at every second we live, you will feel offended. You will shout and you will cry and will forget that you have been stopped because you have done some thing wrong. So if our defense minister is protesting, how different he gets from us, from an ordinary Pakistani. He is our reflection we are he and he is us!
This is why I say alone supreme court will not be able to do anything no matter what to eradicate corruption from Pakistan. Unless we join with it in the effort. Unless we vow that we will not be part of any corruption anymore and unless we declare jihad against corruption. Today the monster of terrorism hangs over us because we as a nation are corrupt. We create monsters and than we shout and create hue and cry on its being. We ignore the basic fact about life.
The more we pollute it less it becomes easy to clear it.
We have polluted our life from cradle to grave and we are not ready to accept our folly. We get happy on as one of us get vindicated or is declared a criminal. It’s in the back drop of our minds that a corrupt must be punished, but we are not ready to punish ourselves in the court of law of our conscious, for what we have done to us and our society.
The decision of Supreme Court provided us with a chance, to improve ourselves. It provides with an outlet from where we can get to safety. It’s not historical because it tells the world that strong in Pakistan can be apprehended, but it is historical that some one for the first time ever in the history have shown us our real face. I assure you nothing will change unless we change as nation. Our rulers will remain the same unless we become what we really want our rulers to be. Honest dedicated and spirited leaders never lead a nation which is otherwise.
When France and Belgium surrendered to Germans and they were advancing towards the British Isles and took the long island. than prime minister of Britain Winston Churchill in his first speech as prime minister said,
"I have nothing to offer but "blood, toil, tears and sweat." He followed that closely with two other equally famous ones, given just before the Battle of Britian. One included the words:
... we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
The other:
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'Rhis was their finest hour'.
There is some Winston Churchill of Pakistan sitting somewhere in the youth of Pakistan. We need to brace him and encourage and line up behind him to lead us the most important war against corruption. In today’s Pakistan the war on terrorism is less important than war against corruption and this is what the decision of Supreme Court of Pakistan conveys to us. We need to fight this war on the streets, valleys and in the hills, in the markets, in the schools and hospitals, factories, railways, airlines, in our offices and in our homes.
IT’S TIME WE MUST SAY NO TO CORRUPTION. AS THERE IS NO OTHWER SOLUTION TO THE MISERIES OF PAKISTAN.
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