When army and judiciary are excluded from accountability, why others should leg behind? laanat hay ke being Muslims seeking relief from Islam to legalize corruption in Pakistan. Those who don’t know what Prophet Mohammad PBUH had said about corruption. “ rishwat lenay wala aor rishwat denay wala do no jehanum main jaaingay”
How Pakistan will survive when 60 percent of developmental budget goes to few elite class illegally without any accountability. Please don’t quote Zardari or NS or AH here. The thread is not about them. It is the system gave by dictators which have made Pakis as corrupt nation. Every Paki has share in corruption. Singling out few does not make any one superior or honest. I don’t know if there is any solution to this cancer.
DAWN.COM | Local | KARACHI: ?Corruption eats up most uplift funds?
KARACHI, Aug 10: Almost 60 per cent of the development budget in the country is generally pocketed by people involved in projects at their different stages, revealed a top auditor and a procurement regulator on Monday.
Speaking at a capacity building and training workshop jointly organised by the Transparency International and the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA), the deputy auditor-general, Muazzam Hussain, and the federal PPRA chief, Hafeez-ur-Rehman, revealed the shocking reality that if 40 per cent of the allocated funds was spent on the project, then it was considered to be executed in an ‘honest’ way.
**Answering a question, they said that PPRA rules did not give a blanket exemption to any ministry or government department from declaring details of expenditure. **
They said that for not disclosing specifications of procurements of the armed forces — which as a matter of routine are designated as “classified” — the defence ministry had to submit an exemption request to the prime minister through a properly laid down procedure. And the prime minister granted permission on a case-to-case basis, they added.
The federal PPRA chief who had also served in Balochistan said that some officials in the province had even obtained a fatwa (a religious decree) that the ‘commission or kickbacks’ they got on contracts — which according to him amounted to 60 per cent of the deal — was ‘halal’ (permissible) as it was given to them for the hard work they had done to negotiate the deal.
Adil Gillani of the Transparency International, mentioning accountability procedures for different groups of people, like the armed forces and the judiciary, stressed that there should be one set of rules that should govern everybody without any discrimination.