Category: Corruption
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All are Corrupt? All politicians are Corrupt? Logical Analysis of Sweeping Generalization
This is not a fatwa but pure logic. Please see the detail of this reasoning. All are Corrupt? If X says “all are corrupt” then All = X + X’s immediate family + X’s friends + everyone else in Pakistan. Let’s assume X is truthful: 1. As X knows himself very well, and if we assume…
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Why corrupt are not caught in pakistan
Corruption and corrupt. Who is responsible To a person claiming corruption of politicians: اگر اتنے ہی کرپٹ تھے تو مشرف نے اپنے 9 سالہ ڈکٹیٹر شپ میں اور عمران خان نے اپنی ایک پیج والی ڈکٹیٹرشپ میں ان کی اتنی ساری کرپشن کے بہت سارے ثبوت کیوں نہیں اکٹھے کر کے عدالت میں کیوں پیش…
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Why are Stupids more Dangerous than Bandits and Thieves
Framework for understanding stupidity: Time for self-introspection ????. اپنا بھی فائدہ کرتا ہے اور دوسروں کا بھی فائدہ کرتا ہے vs اپنا بھی نقصان کرتا ہے اور دوسروں کا بھی! نادان دوست سے دانا دشمن بہتر ہے! (حضرت علی) 5 Laws of Stupidity by Carlo Cipolla, 1976 titled “The basic laws of stupidity.” At first…
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Incompetence is the Mother of Corruption
Incompetence is the Mother of Corruption l Dr. Irfan Hyder Typically, the conventional wisdom is that “corruption is the mother of incompetence”. The argument goes like the following: If there was no corruption, no incompetent judges would be hired, no incompetent civil servants would be hired or promoted, there would be no incompetent NAB, there…
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Technology is as good as the people using it: EVM Technology is just a tool. Its user determines the quality of output
Installing cameras for fighting crime and tax evasion, using computer technology for removing corruption, and implementing EVMs for ensuring transparency of election results are all uses of technology to solve problems. However, “technology is as good as the people using it”. Utility of a technology is dependent on the ability and competence of people using…
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Why Leaders Fail to Recognize their Own Incompetence: Bureaucracy and IK
Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence. Incompetence of the “competent authorities” of pakistani government bureaucrats. And belief of PTIans in competence of IK. Dunning Kruger-Effect: Why Unintelligent People Don’t Learn? Many people claim to be experts at something they are simply not good at. Despite this, they can claim to be exceptionally good…
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Economic Hit of Pakistan and Illusion of Monetary Policy’s Independence from Fiscal Policy
Central Banks are required by law everywhere to manage and control monetary policy or value of money. There is nothing “natural” about value of money or forex rates. Monetary policy (always artificially crafted) works in tandem with fiscal policy and international policy to establish value of money. Tools used by fiscal/monetary policy include (1) interest…
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Which is the “competent authority” for investigating a crime such as abduction in Pakistan
“Which is the “competent authority” for investigating a crime such as abduction in Pakistan? “Competent Authorities” for Investigation & Enforcement suffer from conflicts of jurisdiction, duplication, redundancies, multiple chains of commands, and mismatch of authority with responsibility. There is lack of transparency, and accountability. There is a perennial tension between Enforcement vs Investigation induced by…
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Competent Authorities of Pakistan and the Source of their Incompetence
What is “Competent Authority” and how their incompetence breeds mafias:“Competent Authority” is the code word used by bureaucracy itself to hide the name of decision maker. This is often the secretary of Ministry but may denote a committee also or some other decision maker, but the footprint of the secretary must be there in that…
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Oil Price Hike Mafias in Pakistan
Incompetence of the competent authority: Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority, OGRA The relationship between OGRA and Ministry of Energy, Petroleum Division. There is a conflict of responsibilities and authorities which allows these mafias to fester.
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Hoarding and Price Manipulation Mafias
Incompetence of the “competent authorities” responsible for lack of price control under several ministries. Beware of media brigade that wants to protect and cover-up the shenanigans of the “incompetent authorities” by shifting the blame to the poor people. They are trying to absolve themselves of the responsibility of ensuring that the incompetence of these so…
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Constitutional Corruption vs Financial Corruption
Corruption is breaking of law to gain some financial benefits. Law is under the constitution, so constitution is at a higher pedestal than law. Constitutional violations have a greater negative impact than the financial corruption because constitutional violations destroy the institutions and their relationships, thereby leaving scars that may take decades to heal. The impact…
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Why there are Crime Mafias in Pakistan- Multiple Investigation Agencies with Overlapping Functions
کرپشن اور کرائم انوسٹیگیشن: بڑھتا گیا درد جوں جوں دوا کیHow many investigation agencies are there in Pakistan? Which other investigation agencies exist that are not mentioned in the attached lists? I think there are investigating units also in FBR, EOBI, SBCA, SBP etc? I read somewhere many years ago that there are 40+ agencies!How…
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How Mafias Come into Existence in Pakistan: There is no single authority to be held accountable
Mafias are created when different government agencies start playing ping-pong with their responsibility. They are all the time fighting turf wars often with the connivance of the vested interests, who then cling together to form cartels that start playing one government department against the other, one ministry against the other. جہاں جہاں مافیا ہے…
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Aviation Fiasco: Incompetence of CAA, PIA and Aviation Ministry
CAA has recently certified that all the licenses issued by CAA are genuine and are not fake. Please note the count of fake licenses was 262 in the report flashed by the aviation minister in the assembly which was followed by the Prime Minister speaking about that the fake licenses while trying to implicate previous…
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Dictator Godfathers of Pakistani Politicians-Quality of Selectors-Quality of Selectees
Quality of selectors in Pakistan has reflected in the quality of the selectees. Vicious propaganda against politicians of Pakistan should make us reflect that why on ZAB, NS, AZ, AH and Chaudhrys are credited for their alleged treason and corruption. Their godfathers should also be given due credit if we accept that they have such…
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Faulty BISP Beneficiaries Analysis. Use of Proxies in Data Analytics
Faulty assumptions of BISP research led to faulty conclusions: We must need to question the faulty research assumptions of BISP Benazir Support Program Research Study that is being promoted on social media without requisite critical analysis. Over 8lac people have been identified that are being classified as “rich” without the necessary and rigorous research methodology…
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Corruption is a cause or symptom of Government Inefficiency- Challenge for Imran Khan
Asad Umar putting up a great fight against the vested interests in the country, and IK buckling under pressure is a very simplistic explanation of a more fundamental issue plaguing our governance: The fundamental issue at stake is the debunking of the fallacious assumption that “corruption is the primary reason for our economic downslide”. Asad…
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Judicial Murder of Bhutto: Political Engineering and Bench-Fixing of SC and LHC bench
“Bench Fixing” by CJP Anwarul Haq was responsible for the judicial murder of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1979. بھٹو کیوں ذندہ ہے Why Bhutto is alive? Bhutto is alive because of the political engineering and “bench-fixing” that led to the (1) removal of PMs, (2) violation of the constitution and law, and (3) manipulation of…
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Why there are so many intelligence and investigation agencies in Pakistan
Why in Pakistan we have so many investigation agencies and intelligence agencies? These include Police, FIA, NAB, CID, ISI, SIU, IB, CTD, Sp Br, ATF, MI, ISPR, FBR, JIT,… Our history tells us that with each new agency, there has been an increase in corruption and law-breaking. Instead of decreasing corruption, they continually cause of…
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How to Eliminate Corruption in Pakistan: Simplicity and Transparency of Bureaucratic Procedures
Corruption is directly proportional to the complexity of bureaucratic procedures and is inversely proportional to the transparency of bureaucratic procedures. The bureaucratic procedures are being made more complicated (eg. even a pencil purchase requires approval) and censorship is being imposed, which will further decrease transparency and will thus increase corruption. For a perfectly transparent process,…
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How Long Pakistan has been Under the Corrupt Rule when Imran Khan Tookover
Only RAW agents or traitors can claim that IK has inherited 30-70 years of corruption in Pakistan. At most there can only be 10 years (2008-18) of corruption because by 2008 Gen Musharraf through his 9 years of most clean anti-corruption dictatorial rule had eliminated ALL corruption. During this rule, Gen Musharraf had completely obliterated…
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Narratives Designed to Dishonor Popular Choice and Support Neo-Colonialism
[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] There are several narratives that have been fed to the masses to serve the interests of neocolonialism in developing countries. Neocolonialism enables the super-powers to maintain their hegemony on developing countries during the post-colonial world through…
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At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions
Political discourse in Pakistan is punctuated with allegations and counter allegations without a formal study of the economic implications of the various decisions that have been rocking the country from as early as 1950s. The series of posts in this thread of “At What Cost” is attempt to build a framework for researchers to explore…