Pakistan, May 5 -- Nothing wakes up the dead. So is the case with a living people with a dead conscience. A dead conscience can only be woken up if one accepts faults and shortcomings with a realization to correct those. However, being the 117th out of 180 countries on Transparency International's 2017 Corruption Perception Index, we have become used to deceit, lies and corruption which has become the wool and thread of our societal fabric. Thus, anybody who tries to indicate these culpabilities is grilled, insulted, and shooed away. Readers might relate my statement to the recent incident where a religious preacher had to say sorry on mainstream media for exposing our national character but I made above statement to indicate the state of...