Political History of Pakistan: An Outlook of Corruption Mantra 2008-2013
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CPEC, Pakistan Politics, China Politics, East India Company, SuperpowerAbstract
This article tries to make a synoptic view of the mishandling of the financial resources and corrupt practices in the Landscape of the Federal Government from 2008-2013. There are many studies that have been made on the corruption crises in Pakistan but this specific period from 2008 to 2013 is overlooked by the political historians. This paper attempts to fill up the research gap in the literature of the political History of Pakistan. Since its independence in 1947, the virus of financial corruption in the governmental affairs is troubling the political and economic development of the country. The Period of 2008-2013 is highly debatable and crucial, the remains of dictatorship were still active and political forces were struggling to make their way in the operates of rule. Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and its allies were the ruling alliance. There was a general opinion that top officials of government were gaining in abundance the personal motives and were making money by corrupt means. Therefore, the underlying hypothesis of this study is: Was the government (Ruling Federal Party) was involved in money making, corrupt practises and financial manipulations? Consequently, parliamentary opposition and the national press (Print & Electronic) were exposing them for their wrongdoing. The study is an effort to explore the nature of the federal government’s corruption scandals, their history, the Parliamentary debates and the judicial cases following the above-mentioned corruption mantra in the period of PPP rule from 2008-13.
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