By Tipu Salman Makhdoom 
Pakistan is locally called, quite proudly, سلطنت خداداد پاکستان-Pakistan the Empire of God.
In this empire of God, drinking moderate level of alcohol in private is considered a sin of the highest degree, while looting of public exchequer is.......... rather enviable.
Why? Well. Actually I have no idea.
I tried to think about it. Comparing a person who privately takes alcohol of his own hard earned money with one who steals collective money of society which is supposed to be everyone's social security; ensuring free medical facility, free education, cheap electricity, etcetera etcetera. How can society banish the first and glorify the other? Banish a sinner who disobeys God but does not hurt society while glorifying the one who disobeys God and also hurts the society?
It's not that society has a taste for bribe and not for liquor. To be honest I find drinking common in every class of our society; it's just not admitted openly because of theocratic laws imposed by a dictator to serve a super power's proxy war ambitions a quarter of a century ago.
It does not justify drinking. Only that how can a society be that sensitive to a sin which is not hurting it while envying another sin which is hurting it badly?
Are we less of a society and more like a group of bandits? A group of characterless, weak and coward bandits who cannot admit of our true evil values, yet secretly admiring the robbers (corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, etc) wishing we too can rob the weak and helpless in society sometime.
Am I such a lowly person too?
What about you?
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