Land And Corruption Needs Just Actions.

Land is encroached by, and calls for punishment against, some of the biggest land lords in Pakistan. Others are small frys, many directly or indirectly under their cover. Until these corrupt and criminals are punished, the small and big land owners will have a free hand to grab more land.This keeps people and their entire families enslaved, along with bonded labor for more inhuman as well as dehumanizing activities.

These criminal activities have not stopped. But these activities can be stopped. It simply needs true Pakistanis to end any and all evils and reinstate goodness in and for fellow human beings. Issues of land and corruption are intricately linked. Over the recent times, increasing demand for land has made the sector more vulnerable to corrupt abuse by those in a position to own or control land. The stakes have been raised over land not only in relation to large-scale land acquisitions, but also for who gets to register their title and secure their rural or urban land in the first place.

The social and environmental fall-out has been significant, with millions of people turfed off land that they have traditionally lived on or farmed, and forests and eco-systems flattened through the industrialisation of land use. Tackling land grabbing effectively requires addressing the corruption that pervades the allocation and governance of land. The trouble is that too often experts working on land grabbing and corruption do so in siloes. The framing and terminology used by these two groups differ greatly, and both pursue different national and international processes. That gap stands in need to be bridged. Corruption enables land grabbing in a number of ways.

It can be simply transactional - when government officials accept bribes from a company to gain accessto land, orto look the other way ifthey're behaving badly. When it gets trickier is when corruption is endemic, and institutionalised within government. This can mean policies and central state functions are skewed so that leaders can enrich themselves at the expense of the public good.

In situations like that government decisions about land use aren't based on recognition of rights, on sustainable development or long-term economic growth - land is handed to whoever has the best connections or is willing to pay the highest price. Perversely, this then feeds further corruption. Judges often require bribes to make the 'right' decision when victims try using the courts to get their land...