Magnitude of corruption in Pakistan

The latest Transparency International Report reveals that Pakistan today ranks 142TId out of 163 countries in the domain of corruption. Seven years ago it ranked 87th This shows that corruption is rising like a whirlwind which is gathering force and speed to become a tornado without any sign of abatement. It is more prevalent in our elitist political system, which is dominated by politicians from the feudal and affluent business classes. Having admitted this stark reality, the analysts of the problem have lot of brilliant suggestions for combating corruption. While the number of such suggestion multiplies, the corruption too manages to get manifold. It s so because all such suggestions are academic in nature and have no practical worth. Even then if they have to be implemented, who has the authority and power to do so? Obviously the anti-corruption agencies were appointed from time to time. But we have also observed that these watch dogs could only bark and not bite. They either themselves fell to the lure of corruption or joined the pack of thieves whom they were set to catch or just went out of business due to incompetence.