Routing Corruption
through the ‘Healing Process’
By Dr. Ghayur Ayub
London, UK
Talking about NRO, General Musharaf’s mouthpiece,
Mohammad Ali Durrani gregariously intoned that
this was a 'healing process' and the one that
'we hope will change the political culture of
Pakistan '.
Indeed, General Musharaf who took a principled
stand to abolish corruption when he took over
the reign in October 1999 has found a unique way
of routing it by legalizing it and calling it
a ‘healing process’. I am trying desperately
to find an assuaging word for this act of generosity
and constantly come up with a term I am too embarrassed
to utter. I guess for me a principled stand bears
no gray area; either it is black or white.
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