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Last-minute corruption

Letter March 24, 2013
On the last day of the government, permits for up to 70 CNG stations were approved.

RAWALPINDI: Whereas the mainstream political parties led by the PPP were felicitating one another over the completion of their five-year term in the assemblies, the ordinary Pakistani is grateful to the Almighty for this good riddance and wishing it will never return. After all, what is one to make of a news report that on the last day of the government, permits for up to 70 CNG stations were approved and that all of these were given to favourites of the parties that were part of the previous government?

Col Riaz Jafri (Retd)


Published in The Express Tribune, March 25th, 2013.