Auto drivers or faludawalas should not be made to pay for the corruption done by the country’s elite
KARACHI: According to a recent news story, another auto driver found himself in the office of the National Accountability Bureau as his bank account was mysteriously credited with over a million rupees.
Such mysterious flow of money has become a frequent occurrence and seems like there is nothing that the state can do to curb such methods of money laundering than to keep a poor man hostage for hours and interrogate him about the money that was never his.
Sane voices have advised that the banking system should be linked with people’s NICs. In fact, even the Asia/Pacific Group had demanded for linking the financial and banking system with the country’s registration and database authority as part of measures aimed at curbing money laundering and terror financing. But the government has rejected this suggestion.
While reasons given by the government body hold value, as it stated that since NADRA was just a citizenship registration authority and did not fall in the category of agencies linked to the financial system, it is also important that the government look for an alternative solution to the menace without delay.
Auto drivers or faludawalas should not be made to pay for the corruption done by the country’s elite.
Hamza Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, November 4th, 2018.
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