ZARDARI, CORRUPTION AND PAKISTAN'S FUTURE

Why blame Zardari (or Mr 10% or whatever you may want to name him) he is just another brand new link to the old corruption chain started with the first martial law of His Excellency the self declared Field Martial Ayub Khan the Great who overthrew the democratically elected government in 1956. That's where the corruption started. When he was obliged to leave the reins of the country, instead of doing it the way he, as the head of the state, should have done, just dumped all the responsibilities to another General, Yahya Khan (who was as alien to political and administrative state of affairs as his predecessor) as if it were just a military command that he was handing over and everybody knows what followed. Corruption has never stopped growing since, with successive corrupt governments and equally corrupt generals with their military coups. Even after 61 years of (literally failed) existence, feudalism is still perfectly in place thanks to the dirty tricks of these so called politicians and generals most of whom come from these feudal high up families and just because of them, even today, majority of country population is still illiterate. Today, Pakistan's most powerful and influential commercial and industrial entity is owned by the Pakistan armed forces which has all sorts of commercial and industrial units some of which are 'Fauji Sugar Mills, Fauji Fertilisers, National Logistics' and so on without taking into account the defence based industries. Apart from that, the retired generals, admirals and air marshals have held and still hold key positions in some of the most important public sector industrial, commercial and financial institutions of the country. One wonders what, for God's sake is a professional army doing controlling commercial businesses? The strange thing about it is that these companies are not accountable to any kind of controls as any other private commercial and industrial entity would be liable to. These are just a few examples of a never ending list of cheaters and corrupts that this country has faced like the Jatoi, the Khar, the Pirzada, the Pagara and more recently, the Bhuttos, the Sharif brothers and the Chaudhry brothers. So I don't think Zardari is the worst of the corrupts to be ruling this country. The question that arises here is that if we, the Pakistani Mass had a choice of replacing Zardari, who would we replace him with? I am a Pakistani and proud to be but sometimes I do ask myself ‘why did Quaid –e- Azam go into such pains to create this country which was supposed to be the land of the pure’.