countries, the proposed measures have been successfully applied. 

Recipes for curing corruption have been good enough for the consultants to have a presentation and publish them in fancy papers, and then leave them to the mercy of those who themselves are involved from feet-to-mouth in corruption. In fact, these reports then further enable them to have their corrupt tactics changed in the wake of new curbing mechanisms!

While going through a recent article on ‘Afghanistan’s decrepit reality’ by Matt Guttmann, one can find, among others, two breathtaking points; vis-à-vis the military gains made by Afghans in the past and the current corruption phenomenon in the country. On the triumphant side, he refers to the major military conquests of the Afghan nation such as by ejecting history’s greatest superpowers, from the Mongols to Queen Victoria’s Tommies to the Soviets. On the corruption side, unfortunately, this victorious nation seems to be defeated. He further goes on and talks about one US contractor who complained that the bribery is insufficient in Afghanistan, and that at least in the former Soviet Republics, a single well-placed bribe will get you through the whole process.

From the above revelation, one can fairly judge the extent and depth of the pervasive corruption that exist in this country and which has no matching example in the rest of the world. Being fed up with this deep-rooted bog, Afghans and foreigners working in Afghanistan are reluctantly seemed to have been looking for single well-placed bribe source in order to avoid time consumption in approaching different players in this unjustified and frustrated practice. In the last five years old history, for the first time the bribe took an official and written shape where a high-level official issued a receipt on paper against a kickback deal that had been struck between a construction company and the government officials in relation to awarding construction contract to the former.