Pakistan, April 18 -- Fighting corruption must be the priority in our country if we want to bring this nation back on the right path. The dismal state of our economy, the difficulties that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) faces, the deteriorated state of the institutions including the judiciary are, among other reasons, due to corruption that over the decades has been seeping into the structure with the dismal results that we are facing today.

Corruption has to be fought top-down so that the corrupt sitting at the top of the political power hierarchy would have to go first so as to be unable to disturb and interrupt the process any more. One of the most visible success stories is the dethroning of former PM Nawaz Sharif in the process. The ...