By IANS,
Islamabad : Corruption is like cancer that has to be cut out from the society, a Pakistani daily said Friday after the Supreme Court stated that corrupt officials should be sacked.
The apex court said the corrupt should be axed – “cut out in the same way that a tumour is cut out”. It was hearing a case of illegal allotment of housing.
It wasn’t a single case of inappropriate out-of-turn allotment, but “6,294 tiny tumours that have together formed a vast corrupt growth”, the News International said in an editorial.
“Given the number of allocations it is clear that this is not something that has happened overnight, or even over a single year – but over a long period of time,” it said.
It said: “Clearly, those ‘influentials’ are not going to be giving up their privileged housing easily or willingly and will fight tooth and nail to keep it. Those who now seek to right wrongs will face pressure, and probably intimidation, in their search for social justice.”
“Cancer is pernicious, it hangs on, clings to its own evil life. Cutting it out is the challenge we all face,” it added.