Does Pakistani Society Accept Corruption as a Changed Value with Reference to Religious Perspective?

The major objective of this research was to assess the impact of corruption upon the prevalent religious values in Peshawar. The conceptual framework comprise of perception of religious values as independent variable, and corruption perception as dependent variable. The objectives were to find out people’s perception, causes and institutional role regarding corruption and social values, and suggest remedies. A sample size of 150 respondents i.e. 98 from universities, 27 from anti corruption agencies (NAB) and 25 from religious institutions, was selected to ascertain their attitude towards phenomena at hand through Likert scale as measurement tool. Proportionate random sampling technique was used for choosing the respondents. Association test (Chi Square test) was used to determine the association between dependent and independent at bi-variate level. Gamma () statistics was further used for determining the strength and direction of relationship. the study found that most independent variables are significantly associated with corruption perception, which included knowledge of religion (P<0.000), Ijtehad in controlling corruption (P=0.000), bill boarding of religious values (P=0.000), educational support to highlighting religious values (P=0.000), involving the religious leaders (P=0.000), religion stresses to intact social values (P=0.000), religious institution for stressing over moral training (P=0.000). Moreover, practicing religion (P=0.000), regular religious awareness to guide masses (P=0.000), imposition of religious punishments (P=0.000). The study made it clear that against the ideal orientation to values, the individual’s sense of value is under change because of changes in real orientations to values, caused due to changes in social circumstances. It is concluded that the social values are deteriorating, being replaced by corruption which is getting the rank of a rising social value and is largely in practice amongst members of society, especially in various economic aspects of social life. Nevertheless, people still believed that prevalent social order is strong enough to combat this shifting dynamics, by generating a morality based environment. Index Term-Corruption, Social dimensions, Religious values.