In very recent times, just a little more than a decade back, Shaukat Aziz, the-then Prime Minister of Pakistan used to talk fervently about the ‘trickle-down effect’ of the wealth. According to this fondly endeared philosophy of his, the wealthier the rich of the country grow, their riches is likely to ‘trickle down’ more and more to the poor and the deprived classes of the country. Precisely why there was a lot of talk in the Shaukat Aziz years, of the stock-market index. The buying and selling of the stocks was monumental.
The same is true in the era of Mian Nawaz Sharif/ Ishaque Dar. The rulers of today talk even more proudly about the dizzying heights, our stock market often touches. Meaning thereby that the wealth of the rich and the super-rich is unlikely not to trickle down to the classes that toil hard and desperately for survival.
In between was the Zardari era which transformed ‘money-making’ into a religion.
Political power became a tool of making big money.
Zardari was known to have amassed millions of millions in the years his wife had been in power in Pakistan. And when he occupied Pakistan’s Presidency in 2008, he was facing an ugly situation created by the alleged presence of 60 million dollars in his name in the Swiss banks. This was widely regarded as ‘a tip of the iceberg’ as it was believed that Zardari was presiding over treasures abroad that were bigger than the one that had made a poor fisherman named Edmond Dantes, the inimitable Cunt of Monte Cristo. How many times this unfathomable fortune was multiplied in the years Zardari Sahib was calling the shots from the Presidency cannot be accurately assessed. As cannot be assessed the topless towers of massive riches the Sharif family has raised in the decades it has been in power. But one truth can be asserted with undeniable certainty.
It is not wealth that trickles down. It is Corruption. The more corrupt the man at the top will be, the more corrupt will be the clerk who moves files from one desk to another. The society today stinks with corruption because the palaces built by the Wealthy Rulers of this nation stink with PLUNDER in Capital Letters.
This outburst from my heart has been triggered by the sermon that Zardari Sahib has delivered on Pakistan Day—a sermon in which he has made a laughable attempt to portray himself as a PROTECTOR –ANGEL OF GOODNESS.
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