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Speech competition on the theme “The Decline of Corruption Nation” was organized at IUB Bahawalnagar Campus

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PRO No.511 /23, dated 30.11.2023 Directorate of Public Relations, Islamia University Bahawalpur Bahawalpur (P) The Islamia University of Bahawalpur in collaboration with the Directorate of Student Affairs and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) awareness activities are going on in connection with anti-corruption week. In this regard, under the supervision of Director Campus Dr. Raffaqat Ali, a speech competition was organized on the theme of "The Decline of Corruption Nation" organized by Directorate of Student Affairs at the Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar Campus. Students belonging to different departments participated in this competition. President Urdu Department Dr. Ubaidullah Sukhira and Assistant Professor Pakistan Studies Dr. Khula Cheema performed the duties of the judges. In the end, prizes were given to the students who won positions in the competition. A large number of teachers and students including Deputy Director Students Affairs Aurangzeb Watto, Deputy Director Students Affairs Dr. Misbah Akhtar participated in this competition.

پی آر او نمبر 511 /23 مورخہ 30.11.2023 ڈائریکٹورٹ آف پبلک ریلیشنز، اسلامیہ یونیورسٹی بہاول پور بہاول پور (پ) اسلامیہ یونیورسٹی بہاول پور میں ڈائریکٹوریٹ آف سٹوڈنٹس افیئرز اور نیشنل اکاؤنٹبیلٹی بیورو (نیب) کے اشتراک سے ہفتہ انسداد بدعنوانی کی مناسبت سے آگاہی سرگرمیاں جاری ہیں۔ اس سلسلے میں ڈائریکٹر کیمپس ڈاکٹر رفاقت علی کی زیر نگرانی اسلامیہ یونیورسٹی بہاولپور بہاولنگر کیمپس میں ڈائریکٹوریٹ آف اسٹوڈنٹس افیئرز کے زیر اہتمام ''بدعنوانی قوم کا زوال'' کے موضوع پر تقریری مقابلے کا انعقاد کیا گیا۔ اس مقابلے میں مختلف شعبہ جات سے تعلق رکھنے والے طلباء و طالبات نے حصہ لیا۔ صدر شعبہ اردو ڈاکٹر عبیداللہ سکھیرا اور اسسٹنٹ پروفیسر مطالعہ پاکستان ڈاکٹر خولہ چیمہ نے ججز کے فرائض انجام دیے۔ آخر میں مقابلے میں پوزیشنز حاصل کرنے والے طالبعلموں کو انعامات دیے گئے۔ اس مقابلے میں ڈپٹی ڈائریکٹر اسٹوڈنٹس افیئرز اورنگزیب وٹو، ڈپٹی ڈائریکٹر اسٹوڈنٹس افیئرز ڈاکٹر مصباح اختر سمیت اساتذہ اور طلباء کی کثیر تعداد نے شرکت کی۔

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Imran Khan’s speech in full

Complete transcript of the victory speech by PTI chairman and election frontrunner as he addresses nation from capital.

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When I came into politics, I wanted Pakistan to become the kind of country that our leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah wanted.

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This election is a historic election in Pakistan. In this election, people have sacrificed a lot. 

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There was terrorism in this election. I want to especially praise the people of Balochistan, the kind of difficulties that they had to face. The way they came out to vote, I want to thank all those people.

I saw the scenes on TV, the way the elderly and disabled came out in the heat to vote, the way overseas Pakistanis came out to vote … I want to praise them because they strengthened our democracy.

In the run-up to the elections, Ikram Gandapur [candidate] was killed by a suicide bomber. Haroon Bilour [another candidate] was killed in a suicide attack. Despite all that, this election process was completed.

I want to thank the security forces … my party members, where we had suicide attacks in 10 locations, I want to commend all of them…

…Thank god we have been successful and got a mandate.

Briefly, I want to describe the kind of Pakistan I want to see … look, my inspiration is the Prophet Muhammad, the city of Medina that he founded, how it was based on humanity. For the first time, the state was formed based on humanitarianism.

That is my inspiration, that Pakistan should have that kind of humanitarian state, where we take responsibility for our weaker classes. 

The weak are dying of hunger. I will try my best – all of my policies will be made to raise our weaker classes, for our labourers … for our poor farmers, who work all year and get no money … 45 percent of children have stunted growth, they don’t reach the right height, or their brains don’t develop.

There are countries with less than 25 million people, and we have that many children out of school.

My effort will be that we try our best to raise these people up, that all of our policies be focused on human development. I want the whole country to think like this.

No country can prosper when there is a small island of rich people, and a sea of poor.

I want all of Pakistan to unite. I want to make it clear that anyone who was against us, who voted against us, I think the kind of personal attacks that I have seen, no one has seen those, but I have forgotten all of those, they are behind me. … my cause is far bigger than me.

We will not do any kind of political victimising. We will establish supremacy of the law … whoever violates the law, we will act against them.

Our state institutions will be so strong that they will stop corruption. Accountability will start with me, then my ministers, and then it will go from there.

We will set an example of how the law is the same for everyone. If the West is ahead of us today, it is because their laws are not discriminatory …. this will be our biggest guiding principle.

The biggest challenge we are facing is the economic crisis … we have never had such a huge fiscal deficit. All of this is because our economy is going down because of dysfunctional institutions. 

PTI chief Imran Khan: "We will uplift the poor people, we will uplift the labourers" #ElectionPakistan2018 pic.twitter.com/Js8HneBcvd — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) July 26, 2018

We need to make an atmosphere for doing business.

I think our greatest asset is our overseas Pakistanis … we will fix governance and invite them to invest here.

Our second problem is unemployment. We have the second youngest population in the world … they need jobs.

Where Pakistan is standing right now, I am telling you that we will run Pakistan like it has never been run before … and we will start with ourselves.

All rulers who have come so far, they spend money on themselves …. the way our ruling elite spends money, how will anyone pay tax?

People don’t pay taxes, because they see how our ruling elite spends that money [on themselves].

I promise that I will protect the people’s tax money. We will cut all of our expenses. I am telling you here that the PM House, this huge mansion … in a country where there are so many poor people, I would be embarrassed to live there.

We will use as an educational institute … all governor houses will be used for the public. We might convert some of them into hotels, as we did in Nathia Gali.

My point is that what we have seen in Pakistan so far, the way the ruling elite has lived off the country’s taxes, I will end this.

We have to escape this economic crisis. No one is coming to save us.

We will strengthen the anti-corruption institutions … and hopefully, our farmers, the whole government will work to make sure the farmers make money somehow.

We will help small businesses. We will bring in new things to bring in employment for young people.

The next thing I want to talk about is that we face a very big foreign policy challenge … if any country needs peace right now, then it is Pakistan.

Our economic crisis is such that we want to have good relations with all our neighbours … China gives us a huge opportunity through CPEC, to use it and drive investment into Pakistan.

We want to learn from China how they brought 700 million people out of poverty … The other thing we can learn from China is … the measures they have taken against corruption, how they have arrested more than 400 ministers there.

Then there is Afghanistan, a country that has suffered the most in the war on terror. Afghanistan’s people need peace. We want peace there. If there is peace in Afghanistan, there will be peace in Pakistan. We will make every effort to achieve peace there.

We want to have open borders with Afghanistan one day

With the US, we want to have a mutually beneficial relationship … up until now, that has been one way, the US thinks it gives us aid to fight their war … we want both countries to benefit, we want a balanced relationship.

We want to improve ties with Iran. Saudi Arabia is a friend who has always stood by us in difficult times. Our aim will be that whatever we can do for conciliation in the Middle East, we want to play that role. Those tensions, that fight, between neighbours, we will try to bring them together.

On India: I was saddened in the last few days, how the media in India portrayed me as a Bollywood film villain. It seemed like India feared everything bad would happen if Imran Khan came into power. I am the Pakistani who has the most familiarity with India, I have been all over that country.

I think it will be very good for all of us if we have good relations with India. We need to have trade ties, and the more we will trade, both countries will benefit. The unfortunate truth is that Kashmir is a core issue, and the situation in Kashmir, and what the people of Kashmir have seen in the last 30 years …. they have really suffered.

Pakistan and India’s leadership should sit at a table and try to fix this problem. It’s not going anywhere.

We are at square one right now [with India]. If India’s leadership is ready, we are ready to improve ties with India. If you step forward one step, we will take two steps forward.

I say this with conviction, this will be the most important thing for the subcontinent, for both countries to have friendship.

To end, I pledge to my Pakistani nation that I will prove that we can fix our governance system in this country, we can also bring a governance system that can make the people’s lives easier.

I pledge this to you today, it will be my foremost aim to remain as simple as possible … in this poor country, these huge symbols, these mansions and protocols, on public’s money, I pledge that there will be a different kind of governance in Pakistan. 

I am saying to you today, that for the first time, Pakistan’s policies won’t be for the few rich people, it will be for the poor, for our women, for our minorities, whose rights are not respected. My whole aim will be to protect our lower classes and to bring them up.

Finally, on rigging. Today political parties claim there was rigging. The first thing I will say is that this election commission was formed by the two main political parties, the PPP and PML-N. This was not a PTI election commission. I say to you today, if you say there was rigging in any one constituency, we will stand with you and aid in its investigation.

Today I say, in any constituency you want to investigate, we are ready to stand with you and investigate it. This is the cleanest election in Pakistan’s history.

5 steps to curtail corruption in Pakistan

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“What kind of Pakistan do we want for our children?”, a civil society activist asked recently. “It has to be an inclusive state which is fair, honest and open to everyone.” The promise of this future lies in an entire generation standing-up for accountability and holding those in power responsible for their actions. This is not easy, of course, but it is essential- and it can be done in Pakistan as it can in other countries in South Asia and beyond.

At the Accountability Lab we’re learning a lot about how to do it - here are some ideas.

First, young people must lead change. The median age in Pakistan is now 22 years old, with 63% of the population under the age of 25 . Young Pakistanis are globalized, energized and full of ideas. They are less entrenched in patronage networks, more willing to question existing realities and better connected than ever before. But this doesn’t mean that suddenly everything is going to be different. They need support over time to sustain the change they want to see. Their creativity tends to exist in pockets and despite some recent mobilization politically, is largely delinked from policymaking. We need to build an ecosystem to support these young change-makers - mentorship, opportunities, collaborative spaces and communities - and to jointly maximize their efforts. Organizations like Seed Ventures and incubators like Plan 9 are doing it for entrepreneurs; we are doing the same for “accountapreneurs”.

Second, this is about more than creating organizations and enforcing rules. At the national level, Pakistan now has around half a dozen anti-corruption bodies, 10 different ombudsmen and a plethora of other agencies tasked in one way or another with accountability. But organizations set up to fight graft will not work if they are not aligned with the relationships, cultural norms and incentives that shape behaviours. If a dynamic of corruption is entrenched, it is too difficult - and arguably illogical - for brave individuals to stand-up alone and try and change the system. They need peers everywhere who will support them. This means Pakistan must think now about a long-term process to shift mindsets through investing heavily in civic education, leadership programs and values-based networks. Organizations like the Atlantic Council and the British Council are doing a great job, but there is much more to do.

Third, creativity is essential to fighting corruption because many stakeholders in the existing system are resistant to change. For too long - driven by an aid system that measures successes based on numbers of outputs and dollars spent - the response to corruption and patronage has been training and seminars. But all-day workshops with free lunches are not a substitute for real change. If we want to bring young people into this process effectively, we have to meet them where they are, not where we want them to be. This means using tools and platforms they enjoy - like the arts, media, film and technology - and deploying them in interactive ways. From creative visual arts with organizations like Morango Films , to ICT collaboratives like the Technology for the People Initiative , the potential intersections of innovation and integrity in Pakistan are easy to find.

Fourth, bring in the private sector as a key driver of change. Despite significant challenges, Pakistan’s business community is world class, with some incredible, values-based leaders who operate at the highest levels of global commerce. They lead companies that are thinking well beyond the bottom-line and draw on Pakistan’s rich culture of generous philanthropy. They know that integrity is good for business - ethical companies have higher valuations, lower costs and less risk. This energy can be harnessed to create a level playing field for economic development and collaborative efforts to shift accountability dynamics. Businesses came together to play a key role in the passage of the important Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) Bill of 2012 for example - which cleaned up the pharmaceutical industry. Businesses are driving the Open Government Partnership efforts in Pakistan and collaboratives like Open Lahore and CIPE are working to improve standards of transparency. We must support them further.

Finally, accountability requires a positive narrative that Pakistanis can buy in to and mobilize behind. Pointing fingers and shouting loudly at law-breakers is an easy way to vent some frustration - and there is no doubt that these people should be penalized. But when justice is not served the perception of helplessness is reinforced and momentum in the process of accountability building is lost. Instead, let’s make sure we celebrate the heroes, build on areas where success is clear and work to support those who are doing the right things - “naming and faming” is a useful substitute for “naming and shaming”. Last year, for example, we at the Accountability Lab organized a television and social media campaign around the world called Integrity Idol - which rewarded honesty in government and galvanized national conversations about what it means to be an accountable civil servant. This year we’ll run the competition in Pakistan too.

Building accountability is not about overcoming weaknesses - it is about a strengths-based approach that draws upon human, institutional, cultural and economic assets. Short-term fixes and anti-corruption tools might prove effective in battling graft in isolated ways. But if Pakistan - and other countries - are to truly create fair and open societies for everyone, it is going to take a much larger, generational process to build accountability. The time to start is now.

The report, Partnering Against Corruption Initiative - Infrastructure & Urban Development, is available here . Have you read? Corruption isn't just a developing world issue, and it’s time Western leaders did more This could save governments millions of dollars and tackle corruption

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Editor’s note, April 10: Sunday, Imran Khan received a vote of no confidence from the Pakistani parliament, losing his position as prime minister. A vote on a new prime minister is expected as soon as Monday.

One of Pakistan’s twin crises was resolved this week. The other one, not so much.

On Thursday, the country’s supreme court delivered a historic ruling that resolved a constitutional crisis that took shape last week. The court rebuked Prime Minister Imran Khan, a self-fashioned populist leader and former cricket star who is more celebrity than statesman. Khan, the court ruled, had acted unconstitutionally when he dissolved Pakistan’s Parliament last week in order to avoid losing power through a no-confidence vote.

It was a surprising and reassuring decision, experts in the country’s politics said, given the supreme court’s checkered record as a sometime political ally of Khan. On Thursday, the court sided with the rule of law.

But the underlying political crisis that led to the court’s landmark order endures.

Khan outlandishly blamed the opposition parties’ efforts to oust him on a US-driven foreign conspiracy. Now, the Parliament has been restored and will continue with its no-confidence vote against Khan’s premiership Saturday, likely leading to his ouster and extraordinary elections later this year. Khan, for his part, said that he would “ fight ” back.

The broader political crisis, however, can be traced to the 2018 election that brought Khan to power. Traditionally, the military is the most significant institution in Pakistan, and it has often intervened to overthrow elected leaders that got in its way. Khan’s rise is inextricable from military influence over politics , and the incumbent prime minister accused the military of a soft coup for manipulating the election in Khan’s favor.

It was a “very controversial election,” says Asfandyar Mir, a researcher at the United States Institute of Peace. “There was a major question over the legitimacy of that electoral exercise and the government that Khan formed could just never escape the shadow of the controversy surrounding that election,” Mir explained.

More recently, the relationship between the military and Khan has worsened, and that gave the political opposition an opening to act against him. Though it’s not known what role the military played in the supreme court’s ruling, experts note that the harshness of the court’s order suggests the military’s buy-in. “This is part of a larger history of instability in Pakistan in which prime ministers are ousted from power, because they lose the support of Pakistan’s military,” Madiha Afzal, foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, told Vox.

But “even if the court was influenced by the military, it took the right decision,” she says.

Khan’s position weakened domestically

The political and economic situation set the stage for a challenge to Khan.

After running on a campaign that promised less corruption and more economic opportunity for the poor, Khan has failed to deliver. Inflation is climbing , unemployment is soaring , and a billion-dollar program from the International Monetary Fund has not helped stabilize matters. An international investigation into offshore money from last year, known as the Pandora Papers , showed that Khan’s inner circle had moved money abroad to avoid taxes, in contradiction with Khan’s populist rhetoric.

Khan presided over an anti-corruption witch hunt targeting opposition parties. Indeed, the opposition parties, many of them composed of dynastic leadership and families with old money, are corrupt , and their attempt to oust Khan can be seen as a move to evade further scrutiny, Mir said.

Still, that anti-corruption effort brought the government bureaucracy to a halt. And it’s part of Khan’s broader strongman-style approach to governing that has been ineffective .

Since his start in politics, Khan has depended on the courts. Yasser Kureshi, a researcher in constitutional law at the University of Oxford, says Khan has built his political standing on backing the judiciary. “Imran Khan’s political platform has been built around an anti-corruption populism, where he charges the political class for being corrupt, and in the last 15 years the supreme court has been on a spree of jurisprudence targeting the political corruption of Pakistan's traditional parties,” he explains. “Khan has been the biggest supporter of this jurisprudence as it has validated and legitimized his politics.”

Now, the court appears to have turned against him at a time when the military has also lost faith in Khan. “With Imran Khan, I think that the problem for him is that right now, he has no institutional solutions that he can really turn to,” says Kureshi.

Khan’s relationship with the US has also cooled

Pakistan is a nuclear-armed country with a population of 220 million; it has built the sixth-largest military in the world, and has clout as a leader in the Islamic world. A longtime participant in the US war on terrorism, Pakistan has also been a conflicted partner, criticized for at times abetting the Taliban .

Khan was elected in 2018, and Mir says that, two years in, the military’s relationship to him began to cool. Khan feuded with the army chief over foreign policy issues, and the military saw Khan’s poor governance as a liability. Last year, Khan’s delays in signing off on a new intelligence chief prompted speculation of more divides between the two.

President Joe Biden did not phone Khan in his initial days in office, though he did call the leader of India , Pakistan’s chief rival. “The Biden administration’s cold shoulder to Imran Khan rubbed him the wrong way,” said Afzal. “Pakistan has just fallen off a little bit of the radar in terms of high-level engagement.”

Khan’s public messaging as a strongman has partially been responsible for agitating the relationship with the US — and by extension, his relationship with the Pakistani military, which wants to be closer to the US.

Most recently, that chill was expressed by Khan’s decision to stay neutral in Russia’s war on Ukraine; Khan visited Moscow just in advance of Russia’s invasion.

And, now, he’s turned to accusations of conspiracy: that the opposition’s stand against him is manufactured by the US. The origins of Khan’s incendiary claims appear to be a diplomatic cable that Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington sent home last month after a meeting with senior State Department official Donald Lu. Whatever criticisms Lu may have conveyed about Pakistan’s foreign policy, Khan’s interpretation of the memo has clearly been blown out of proportion. “When it comes to those allegations, there is no truth to them,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said last week.

It’s an open question whether his argument will resonate among a Pakistani populace who is suspicious of the United States. One group it’s likely not resonating with: Pakistan’s powerful military.

Khan is “critical of the United States to a point that makes the military uncomfortable,” said Shamila Chaudhary, an expert at the New America think tank. “The way he’s talking about the United States is preventing the US relationship with Pakistan from being repaired, and it needs to be repaired.”

Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s focus in Asia has been on great-power competition with China and two national security crises (the Afghanistan withdrawal and Russia’s Ukraine invasion). The sloppy withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan furthered the disconnect between Washington and Islamabad, according to Chaudhary, and further upset Pakistan’s government.

Robin Raphel, a former ambassador who served as a senior South Asia official in the State Department from 1993 to 1997, described Biden’s outlook to Pakistan as a “non-approach approach.”

“I’m a diplomat, and, I believe you get more with honey than vinegar,” she said. “It would have been more than worth it for the president to take five minutes to call Imran Khan.”

The US did send its top State Department official for human rights, Uzra Zeya, to the Organization of Islamic Countries summit in Pakistan last month. Zeya also met with the country’s foreign minister and senior officials, as the two countries celebrated the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations.

But there hasn’t been more than that in terms of a positive message for the US-Pakistan relationship in light of the recent political and constitutional crises in the country. Price’s recent comments on the situation were brief: “We support Pakistan’s constitutional process and the rule of law.”

What happens next

Once the Parliament completes its no-confidence vote, which may happen as soon as today, it will dissolve the government. The country’s electoral commission will then oversee a caretaker government that will likely be headed by the leader of the opposition, Shehbaz Sharif . (Sharif is the brother of Nawaz Sharif , a former prime minister himself, who is currently living in exile in the UK as he faces accusations of corruption.) And, in that forthcoming vote, Khan will most probably lose .

But even the specifics of those elections are contentious. Khan had asked the electoral commission to set a date within the next 90 days; opposition politicians told NPR that reforms are needed before the next vote, otherwise they say the military will “rig” the next elections.

Long-term, things are even less clear. Among civil society leaders in Pakistan, there is agreement that the supreme court’s ruling is good for constitutionalism. But it may also be a vehicle for further expansion of the judiciary’s ability to intervene in politics.

Kureshi, an expert on the courts of Pakistan and how they have increasingly become the arbiter of politics in the country, says the bigger takeaways won’t be fully understood until the court releases the full text of its ruling in the next month or so. That detailed order may set other legal precedents and even cast the opposition in a bad light.

After the immediate euphoria of keeping Khan’s audacious unconstitutional maneuver in check, that judgment may say a lot about how the court sees itself, especially its supervisory role over the parliament and prime minister.

“The elected institutions are deeply constrained by the tutelage of overly empowered unelected institutions, whether it is the military, historically, or the judiciary more recently,” said Kureshi. “Judgments like this give them an opportunity to further affirm and expand that role.”

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Speech on Corruption

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Corruption is a problem that has hampered the growth of our country in not one but many ways. It is also one of the most common English speech topics for students . The idea behind giving this as a topic in a speech is to enlighten students on our country’s problems and how we can resolve them. Here, in this blog, we give you a sample speech on corruption, which will come in handy for you in the future.

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Introduction to corruption, examples of corruption, causes of corruption, how to fight corruption .

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Speaking Task: Speech on Corruption (5 minutes)

Good morning to one and all present here. It is rightly said that your speech only becomes well if your tongue says what your heart feels. So, here I am to talk about the current and worldwide ongoing issue and enlighten all of you with a speech on Corruption! 

In one aspect or the other, we all have come across the word ‘Corruption.’ According to political ideology’s definition, ‘Corruption is a form of dishonesty or criminal offence undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, to acquire illicit benefit or abuse power for one’s private gain.’ Seems lengthy and confusing, right? Most simply, corruption is dishonest behaviour practised by authorities such as managers or government officials. This is how people with power rule the world, thereby violating certain people’s rights and privileges. 

It is said that time changes everything.  But here it is, this dishonest act and the unsatisfying term haven’t changed for years on end. It is still prevalent. The main reason for corruption in India is the link between bureaucrats, politicians, and criminals.

Gone are the days when bribes were given when things are wrong. Presently, bribes receive to hide the right stuff. May it be a minor issue or a life-threatening one, a younger child or an adult man, a school-going boy to a working person everyone has seen and has fallen prey to corruption. These days, even if a person isn’t qualified enough for a public sector job, he can quickly get it by spending money and giving bribes to higher officials. 

Well, what is a speech on corruption without some examples? So here are some things which you must have experienced at some point in your life. Have you ever applied for your or your child’s admission to a big reputed college? You can observe in a few of those colleges that if you aren’t eligible for admission, then a bribe is the door opener. Sounds pathetic right? But this is the sad truth these days. From getting admission to reputed colleges to being elected with numerous votes, everything unless more minor or more ways is induced with corruption.

But the most significant and worst type of corruption is Political Corruption. In legal terms, Political corruption or Mal Politics uses powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain. This type is the most concerning one as it erodes the fundamental value of the law that governs and regulates society creating a massive mess in the country as a whole.

Now you all might be thinking that this happens only in well-established and sophisticated cities, but that’s not the case. It occurs throughout India. Metropolitan cities, towns, and villages are all part of this evil game, and it is the common man who gets unnecessarily trapped in the dishonest strategies of this game. The heights of corruption have reached such an extent that strict law can also reduce but not abolish this corrupt mindset. 

Any speech on corruption can never be complete without looking at the causes of corruption. We often hear people saying, ‘Everything happens for a reason. This states that Everything happening around us is driven by a strong desire or motivation behind it. In the same way, corruption also has some hidden causes behind it. Enlisted are the causes of corruption:

• Greed of money
• Lack of values and ethics
• Lack of education
• High level of bureaucracy and inefficient administrative structure 
• Political instability
• Gender Inequality 

Now, when we have raked up this sensitive topic in my speech on corruption, I must bring to your notice certain measures to reduce this problem. “Every problem has a solution……But it depends whether you want to solve it or not”. It depends on us if we have to stand against this evil act or in support of it. People usually stay silent in such situations, but one must remember that mere silence leads to acceptance. We must unite together and try to reduce corruption. Enlisted are the various ways in which we can reduce corruption to a greater extent.

• People should start reporting cases of corruption without any delay.
• All the government, non-government, public, private, and educational should unite together and stand against corruption.
• The media and advertising sector should educate people against corruption regularly.
• We should provide students with additional courses to build better citizens for tomorrow.

To conclude, corruption is making life worse for the commoner. But, he is the only one who can raise his voice and bring change. We should start from ourselves and change our thinking of ‘Make a Change to that of ‘Be a change. So, let’s come together and stand in favour of the commoner and not corruption. Let’s decide to be loyal and valuable citizens of our country.

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It’s really great.

Really very helpful and motivating and I understood this concept very clearly and I can now tell a speech anywhere on this topic ….thank you so much…

Happy to help, Jack!

Very nice work am really motivated to write myself.

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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. A bit more than a half decade ago, Pakistan staged national elections in a cloud of controversy. The eventual winner was boosted by the tacit support of the South Asian republic’s long-meddling military , which put its thumb on the scales in favor of its chosen candidate. The opposition saw its chief leaders sidelined on criminal charges that their supporters claimed were trumped up. They decried the result as “rigged.”

Fast forward to this week, as Pakistan holds its latest general election on Thursday. A similar dynamic prevails, though the cast of characters has been flipped. Former prime minister Imran Khan, who surged to victory in 2018 , languishes in prison on a slew of charges that make him ineligible to contest the election himself. Meanwhile, three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif stands a strong chance of winning a fourth mandate. The corruption cases that kept him out of the running in 2018 — and sent him into self-imposed exile the following year — have been waved away by military authorities now more amenable to his return.

The reversal of fortunes is part of the sad seesaw of Pakistani democracy, forever tilting through crises and interruptions. The current election is supposed to punctuate a prolonged period of political limbo that followed the collapse of Khan’s government in 2022. It’s believed Khan’s ouster came after a falling-out with the army top brass, which had first nurtured the charismatic populist before turning against him amid mounting criticism of Khan’s perceived poor governance.

In the months since, Khan and allies in his party, the Movement for Justice, known by its Urdu acronym PTI, have been subdued by an onslaught of lawfare. Some prominent PTI officials have left the party to avoid the dragnet of the deep state. Others are locked away in jail like Khan, who has now been convicted four times by authorities on charges ranging from corruption to the “illegal” nature of his marriage to his current wife, who supposedly didn’t wait long enough after her previous divorce to marry Khan.

Most states have armies. In Pakistan, the army has a state.

To many, the end goal is obvious: the total evisceration of Khan’s political career and the hollowing out of the political movement he began. “It sends a very clear message,” Hasan Askari Rizvi, a political analyst, told my colleagues. “The PTI won’t be allowed to come into power again.”

Yet Khan remains remarkably popular — a former cricket national team captain beloved by the masses who is seen as standing against a class of entrenched, feckless elites. And his party, despite myriad legal hurdles obstructing its full participation in the election, is desperately fighting to secure what votes it can.

“The PTI is deploying a two-pronged campaign strategy of secretive campaigning, often led by female teacher volunteers, and generative AI technology,” explained Reuters . “The party has used generative AI to create footage of Khan, its founder, reading speeches he conveyed to lawyers from his prison cell, urging supporters to turn out on election day.”

The military’s apparent crackdown on Khan and PTI appears to have possibly increased his support. “While his popularity had plummeted as the economy declined in his last months in office, he now has a cultlike following,” noted the New York Times . “Supporters see him — and by extension themselves — as wronged by the military leaders who they believe orchestrated his ouster.”

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The public mood in Pakistan is not optimistic. According to a new Gallup survey , 7 in 10 Pakistanis “lack confidence in the honesty of their elections.” It also found that a similar proportion of Pakistanis believe economic conditions are worsening where they live and close to 90 percent of Pakistanis see corruption as rife in their government.

A caretaker administration has struggled to cope with the country’s economic dysfunction, as public debt and inflation bite. It’s also grappling with a spiraling security crisis, as an ethnic insurgency rages in Pakistan’s vast Baluchistan province and the Pakistani Taliban continue to launch terrorist attacks across the country.

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In this context, it’s hard to see how much of a difference Sharif, a stalwart of the political scene, may be able to make should he come to power. It’s also possible that he may once more find himself sidelined by the real powers-that-be — Pakistan’s longest-serving prime minister has never been able to complete any of his three stints in office. “Given that Nawaz’s three terms in power ended with a fall out with the military, we can expect the same will happen this time around,” Madiha Afzal, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, told Time magazine .

But Sharif is part and parcel of a political system strung around Pakistan’s military, a sprawling entity that maintains significant economic interests and exerts influence across Pakistani society.

“Politicians are incentivized to side with the generals to attain power,” wrote Muneeb Yousuf and Mohammad Usman Bhatti in Foreign Policy . “This dynamic has weakened the constitution, compromised the judiciary, and undermined democratic elections. The military no longer intervenes in politics via coup, but its leaders have invested in the political system. Pakistan has developed into a hybrid regime where elements of electoral democracy and military influence mingle.”

The country’s main political parties don’t offer a pathway to break this status quo. They “lack the strong links to or mandate from the masses to challenge elites and make fundamental changes in our elite-dominated political and economic order,” wrote political economist Niaz Murtaza in Pakistani newspaper Dawn. “So, we may go from one weak and rigged hybrid regime to another that adds to our mounting problems and kicks the can further into the future.”

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Police believed to be pakistan’s most corrupt sector: ti survey.

According to an annual survey, the police are perceived to be the most corrupt sector at the national level followed by tendering and contracting, judiciary and education as the second, third and fourth, respectively.

Transparency International (TI) Pakistan on Friday released the results of the National Corruption Perception Survey 2022 (NCPS) — the seventh in a series for the past 21 years — as the world marks International Anti-Corruption Day.

The police ranked the highest in the previous year’s survey as well.

The provincial breakdown of the three “most corrupt” sectors revealed that education in Sindh was believed to be the most corrupt sector; the police came in at second, while tendering and contracting was the third.

In Punjab, police again came in first, while tendering and contracting came in second followed by the judiciary.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the judiciary was perceived to be the most corrupt sector, followed by tendering and contracting and the police at second and third, respectively.

In Balochistan, tendering and contracting took the lead followed by the police and judiciary at the second and third spot, respectively.

TI Pakistan Chairman Justice (retd) Zia Pervez said that the 2022 survey had been entrusted to its partner organisations with the objective to enhance the credibility of the NCPS and to develop knowledge of partner organisations on public survey mechanisms.

He hoped that the results of the survey would be utilised by various government departments to implement reforms.

“This will help in reducing corruption and making the lives of the public a little better,” he said.

‘45pc consider anti-graft institutions ineffective’

At the national level, 45pc of the survey-takers considered the role of anti-graft institutions as “ineffective” in curbing corruption in the country.

In Sindh, only 35pc of Pakistanis considered the role of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) effective in combating corruption. In KP, 61pc considered the role of “none of the anti-corruption institutions” to be effective in curbing corruption, followed by Balochistan (58pc) and Punjab (31pc).

Pakistanis at the national level continued to believe that corruption in public service delivery was high. According to the survey, the three most corrupt public services were contracts of roads (40pc), access to uninterrupted electricity (28pc) and access to clean drinking water (17pc).

In Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan, maintenance of roads topped the list of public service delivery perceived by the citizens to be most corrupt. While in KP, majority of the citizens (47pc) considered access to uninterrupted electricity to be the most corrupt public service delivery.

Separately, the survey also found that the three most important causes of corruption at the national level were: “delayed decisions” in corruption cases (31pc), use of state institutions by governments for their personal gain (26pc) and government incompetence (19pc).

The citizens of Sindh and Punjab considered the “use of state institutions by governments for their personal gain” as the most potent reason for corruption in Pakistan, at 43pc and 29pc respectively.

In KP and Balochistan, the people considered a “delay in decisions of corruption cases” as the main reason for corruption in the country, at 43pc and 32pc respectively.

Moreover, 33pc of Pakistanis at the national level believe that as a measure to prevent corruption, the crime should be punishable by life imprisonment, according to the survey.

Further, 28pc think that all government officials, politicians, military officers and judges should disclose their assets to the public, while another 25pc say that corruption cases should be heard by anti-corruption courts, NAB and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on a daily basis and decided within six months.

In Sindh, 39pc of citizens believe that in order to curb corruption, cases should be heard in NAB, FIA and anti-corruption courts on a daily basis and decided in six months.

Citizens in Punjab (32pc) and KP (38pc) feel that corruption should be punishable by lifetime imprisonment.

While in Balochistan, 33pc said that in order to control corruption, the government should immediately make it mandatory for all officials, politicians, military officers judges to disclose their assets to the public.

Local NGOs thought to be effective during flood response

The NCPS also shed a light on the devastating floods during the monsoon season this year by emphasising the need for transparency and accountability in the utilisation of funds for the floods.

At a national level, about 62pc of Pakistanis considered the role of local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as effective and better during the recent floods.

The percentage of people in each province who thought that the local NGOs had worked well during the flood response was as follows: 52pc in Balochistan, 54pc in Punjab, 62pc in Sindh and 79pc in KP.

Additionally, a vast majority of Pakistanis at the national level — 70pc — believed that the funds were not distributed transparently. The provincial breakdown showed 62pc of citizens in Punjab, 67pc in Sindh, 68pc in Punjab, and 82pc in KP were of this opinion.

A whopping 60pc of the survey-takers at a national level thought that the flood donations and relief efforts made by NGOs should be made more transparent. The province breakdown came to 64pc in Sindh, 60pc in Punjab, 75pc in KP and 40pc in Balochistan.

Further, 88pc of the population at a national level believed that details of the donations and expenditures of all NGOs should be publicly available on their websites. The provincial breakdown came in as 86pc in Sindh, 93pc in Punjab, 92pc in KP and 90pc in Balochistan.

Lack of transparency, information

A significant amount of the population, 77pc, at a national level found it difficult to obtain public information from public bodies under right to information laws.

The provincial breakdown came in at 87pc in Sindh, 83pc in Punjab, 71pc in KP and 68pc in Balochistan.

This coincided with 66pc, at a national level, who said that the government did not take any corrective action to redress their complaints. At the provincial level, in 57pc in Sindh, 70pc in Punjab, 70pc in KP and 67pc in Balochistan were unsatisfied with the government’s actions to address their complaints.

A majority of Pakistanis at a national level, 64pc, believed that the country had not benefitted from the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

In Sindh, 58pc thought Pakistan had benefitted from the agreement. But 70pc in Punjab, 67pc in KP and 76 in Balochistan thought otherwise.

Further, 54pc of Pakistanis at a national level believed that the reporting of news channels was biased. The survey, however, showed that 61pc in KP and 53pc in Balochistan thought the opposite.

In Sindh and Punjab, 72pc and 59pc, respectively, considered the reporting of news channels to be biased.

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