Now Sialkot would be known for two Muhammad Iqbals – one who saw a dream, and the other who lived it – at least for some time.
One single ADC(R) of Sialkot – a bureaucrat – has done corruption worth millions of rupees. There were alleged foreign tours. Commercial and other properties. Land Cruiser. Rolex, unlike James Bond. Millions in cash.
He’s been taken. On trial now. Let’s see how innocent he comes out of the judicial brothel.
Now that’s just one bastard in the hierarchy.
Imagine all of them. In provincial and federal offices. Count each and every one among all their ‘superior’ groups in the entirety of the hierarchy of bastards. And you may be able to count how much they rake in through corruption.
Pakistan can get rid of all the foreign loans if they can take back from what the bureaucracy takes out from the system. We don’t even need to talk about Swiss accounts or offshore companies or some pizzas.
Remember: they are nurtured by the state. Like a mother nurturing her child from an extramarital… oh! Please, let me write straight…
They get free cars, homes, electricity, servants, petrol, etc. Then they get more from the department they’re posted in. Then they have subsidized education for their kids and free one for themselves – usually Masters in Public Policy from international universities – another waste of millions – because it brings nothing home, and doesn’t even count as corruption.
After all this, they get salaries. Which is basically the pocket money as everything else is already paid for by the state. Comparing their salary with someone, even a CEO of some company, is a gross miscalculation and injustice.
Let me give you an example. A Deputy Secretary I know of. Did CSS. Entered PAS. Now in a provincial department as a DS. Can’t wake up early. Comes to office after 1 PM – right at lunchtime, catered by another wing of the Department. After that he sits and roams and meets friends. Signs a couple of files upwards or downwards. Send 2-4 messages on WhatsApp in a week. Hasn’t opened his laptop for work in the last year. Rarely attends a meeting. And managed to have a couple of foreign tours already. Sexy.
For doing all this service, he gets all that is mentioned above. If you calculate all that is spent on him by the state in a month, it would be over Rs.2 million. And what does he give back? Middle-finger!
Mind you, we haven’t counted under the table deals here. Not even a mango crate’s worth. Otherwise, even after everything they get from the state for passing a test, they’ve got pig bellies, and they want more. So, they take whatever comes their way. They don’t even leave orphans and widows.
Other than all this, if you get to know how they exploit women sexually based on their official powers and seat, you will get to know a lot of them are manipulative predators. Not all. But definitely a lot. Because the seat they put their arse on, can do some wonders. Not them. The seat.
Anyway, that one arrest in Sialkot is the tip of the iceberg. It will be covered. And cooled down. Because these incompetents are still running the show. They will let the system keep on moving like that as they have been doing since the British Raj.
A month back, the Prime Minister Office published an advertisement to hire Federal Secretaries from private sector. Even the worst form of the government is tired of these bureaucrats – because they don’t know a damn thing. They keep on misguiding the governments to run on outdated ideas and processes. That advertisement jolted the bureaucrats, and they resisted – panicked, even.
Anyway, even Federal Secretaries from private sector cannot do miracles. Because there will be a complete hierarchy of bureaucrats below them who will not let them win.
And that is why no single man / woman can take this country out of the mess – until both civil and uncivil establishments are taken by balls. One needs to be removed, the other, to be screwed.
