So rampant is the corruption in this country that not a day goes by with out a new story of corruption at the top not making the headlines in press. The Transparency International's report and the list of NRO beneficiaries are the latest in the sordid tales of graft in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. It is time for the Apex court to borrow a leaf from Quran and implement the injunctions contained in Verse 33 of Sura-e-Maeda. The crimes mentioned in the Verse are: (a)Waging a war against Allah and His Messenger (b) Striving to make mischief in the land (fasad-fil-arz) Commensurate to gravity of these crimes, the Islamic punishments could be: (a) To be killed painfully (b) To be crucified (c) Hands and feet to be cut off (d) To be exiled from the land Since misappropriation of people's money has assumed such colossal proportions, the first two options must be availed in curbing the menace. The matter needs to be taken up seriously and the religious scholars need to deliberate the issue before they convince the Apex court that the matter truly falls within the ambit of the above quoted verse. And if this is not done, then all concerned beware that Verse 44 of the same Sura, which declares that those who do not judge with what Allah has revealed are disbelievers, applies to them all. -MOHAMMAD AKRAM BHAUR, Lahore, December 2.