Tag: Corruption
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Pakistan’s Female MPs Guilty Of Laundering Billions Of Rupees
Firdous Ashiq Awan – Rs. 1.1 billion Fehmida Mirza – Rs. 1.1 billion Faryal Talpur – Rs. 780 million Asma Arbab Alamgir – Rs. 580 million Naseem Chaudhry – Rs. 500 million While a man has to risk his life to enter the political arena, women have seats reserved in parliament in our fair world…
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Another Democratic Scam!
For well over two and a half years, Pakistanis, 180 million in all have heard night and day the story of good governance and unmatched democratic setup. Team Gillani has claimed their success in every possible sector in their own “book of appreciationâ€, but sadly it’s the common man which is living in a “mental…
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Pakistan: The Land of Unlimited corruption
The prime minister (Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani) said his government is not corrupt. And the very next day, Transparency International announced that Pakistan has jumped to place no. 34 from 42 in the list of corrupt nations. I wonder why it happens that whenever this government announces something, the opposite happens. Immediately after PEPCO announced…
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Where is My Share, Brother?
Keeping in mind the political culture of Pakistan, corruption is more of a house hold name. Though often termed as the termite which eats away the basic foundation of the society, in Pakistan its entirely the opposite. Blaming it on system, nearly every one on every level gets involved in this in one way or…
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Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.
The recently published National Corruption Perception Survey 2010 by the Transparency International- Pakistan graced the headlines and remained talk of the town for a few days but then went on the backburner as a usual practice of what happens in our country. However In a developed country such high perceived numbers of corruption would have…