Why won’t you let NAB do it’s job, Nawaz Sharif?
Dear Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif,
Until recently, you had nothing against NAB investigating and
arresting those who did not belong to your party. But recently you lost your
cool and came down hard upon this organisation for “harassing government officers” and you said that you would “clip its
wings”. Apparently, you did not want any investigation of corruption in projects like the LNG, Metro Bus, Orange Train and LDA City.
Why?
You may be under the
impression that being in government gives you the freedom to do whatever you
want and violate all or most of the rules. You seem to believe that NAB, the
police and other government institutions are there to do your bidding. It’s
because of such an attitude that the country is in the mess it is today.
Well, Mr Nawaz Sharif, you may want a weak, ineffective and
subservient NAB, but we believe that an independent NAB is essential to save the
country. We want corruption to be substantially reduced (if not eliminated
entirely). Since you are out of the country most of the time, and since you
obviously have your minions telling you that everything is hunky dory, and
because you don’t read newspapers, you may think that corruption is not that
big a problem, but just consider the following:
-
Because of corruption, you cannot impose the writ of the state on those who
refuse to pay taxes. These law-breakers know that as long as there are corrupt
officials and corrupt leaders, they can get away with anything.
- Owing to
corruption, you don’t have enough money to spend on security and the people of Karachi are afraid to venture out of their
homes.
-
Corruption is the reason why children are dying in Thar and 50 per cent of Pakistanis do not
have access to safe drinking water.
- Due to
corruption, Pakistanis have more than $200 billion stashed in Swiss bank accounts. This amount is almost equal to seven times
our national budget.
- The
streets of our cities are filled with garbage because of corrupt officials, who know they
will never be punished because the rulers are corrupt.
-
Do you know why terrorists are still able to strike wherever and whenever they
want? Because of corrupt officials who are not doing their assigned jobs.
- Because
of corruption, you cannot spend on education. With literacy rate of 48 per cent (one of the lowest in the world), no
wonder our younger people cannot earn enough to survive and some of them are
being recruited by the terrorists.
So, Mr Nawaz Sharif,
to save the country, please do not interfere in the workings of NAB. If,
however, you are concerned with the well-being of only those who are your
relatives and friends, then there is no hope for the country. The choice is
yours: what you do today could well change the destiny of Pakistan.
Engineer, teacher, industrialist, associated with
petroleum/chemical industries for many years. Loves writing, and (in the
opinion of most of those who know him), mentally unbalanced. He tweets
@shakirlakhani (twitter.com/shakirlakhani)
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