Re: Imam taking bribe for fatwa & The Price of a Fatwa (merged)
It may well be simply a matter of managing our religious institutions in a sane manner, with a presupposition that corruption may occur.
I don't think this is at all a lost cause. Popular claims exist that organizations such as the political wings of Hamas and Hizbullah are rather 'clean' in this sense. It may be simply a matter of learning from other groups/movements on how to organize. Perhaps not the most effective way, but it could work.
The big problem as I see it is the ad-hoc and non-organized nature of our religious echelon.
Realistically, I think in a sense, religious freedom is the culprit here. Pakistan IS an Islamic state, at least in the political sense. That various sundry groups exist with slight doctornal schisms should not be tolerated, and a party-line Sunni and Shia doctorine (there is no briding this gap, apparently) should be enforced using the coercive aparatus of the state. I do not think the current regime is credible enough for this, and if Zia had any clue he would have done it.