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Pakistans religious bodies (generally run by Maulanas), the military and the media respectively have been found as the three least corrupt institutions in the list of 12 organizations by Transparency International (TIP) in its global report to be released in Berlin on Tuesday.
Without sharing the complete details of the report - Global Corruption Barometer 2013 -, a European diplomatic source confided to The News here on Monday that as against the international propaganda mostly targeting Pakistans religious entities and the military have been found as the most clean institutions followed by media in the list of 12 institutions assessed.
The most corrupt are from government and politics but the source did not share their names and suggested to wait for the formal launch of the report.The source indicated that the report might not be very encouraging for Pakistan as the corruption has been on the rise in the country for the last five years and there has been no effort to curb it. The source though expects from the present PML-N government to take stern action against the corrupt, lamented that the regime has yet to take any practical step to show its seriousness.
The upcoming Transparency Internationals Global Corruption Barometer is the largest cross-country survey to collect the general publics views on and experiences of corruption. In its last report 2010, the political parties are identified as the most corrupt institution around the world.
Released during the last PPP government, which was considered as the most corrupt in the history of Pakistan, the report had found that in Pakistan about seven out of 10 respondents judge the anti-corruption actions of its government as ineffective or extremely ineffective.
According to the last governments own Chairman NAB, sacked by the apex court for having been illegally appointed, corruption of more than Rs8 billion takes place daily in Pakistan. It is said that a considerable share of this massive corruption is contributed by the oil mafia, federal tax authorities and others.
The incumbent Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a recent letter had though warned his ministers and members of the bureaucracy to stay away from corruption and favouritism, his regime has yet to identify the areas of corruption, the mafia involved to check the daily plundering of nations Rs8 billion.
Pakistans ranking on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) had gone from being the 42nd most corrupt country in 2011 to 33rd in 2012. The same year Pakistan had also been declared the seventh most corrupt country out of 97 in the Rule of Law Index of 2012.
This serious situation demands of the present regime to take on the corrupt sternly but despite even Supreme Courts observations to this respect, the PML-N government is apparently following a go-slow policy in this regard. So far almost everything that is happening against the corrupt whether these are the NICL and Ogra cases or the EOBI, Ephedrine and Hajj corruption cases, all is pursued by the Supreme Court.
In the case of Swiss corruption cases, it was the caretaker government and not the present regime that had actually approached the Swiss authorities to know the status of the letter written to the Swiss attorney general in line with the SCs decision for re-opening of corruption cases against President Zardari and others.
The response of the Swiss authorities to the caretakers letter, reached Islamabad when Nawaz Sharif government had taken over the reins of power and it was unearthed that a secret letter in complete disregard to the SCs order was written to the Swiss government to get the cases against President Zardari closed forever.
Three Ms least corrupt in Pakistan: Transparency - thenews.com.pk
Without sharing the complete details of the report - Global Corruption Barometer 2013 -, a European diplomatic source confided to The News here on Monday that as against the international propaganda mostly targeting Pakistans religious entities and the military have been found as the most clean institutions followed by media in the list of 12 institutions assessed.
The most corrupt are from government and politics but the source did not share their names and suggested to wait for the formal launch of the report.The source indicated that the report might not be very encouraging for Pakistan as the corruption has been on the rise in the country for the last five years and there has been no effort to curb it. The source though expects from the present PML-N government to take stern action against the corrupt, lamented that the regime has yet to take any practical step to show its seriousness.
The upcoming Transparency Internationals Global Corruption Barometer is the largest cross-country survey to collect the general publics views on and experiences of corruption. In its last report 2010, the political parties are identified as the most corrupt institution around the world.
Released during the last PPP government, which was considered as the most corrupt in the history of Pakistan, the report had found that in Pakistan about seven out of 10 respondents judge the anti-corruption actions of its government as ineffective or extremely ineffective.
According to the last governments own Chairman NAB, sacked by the apex court for having been illegally appointed, corruption of more than Rs8 billion takes place daily in Pakistan. It is said that a considerable share of this massive corruption is contributed by the oil mafia, federal tax authorities and others.
The incumbent Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a recent letter had though warned his ministers and members of the bureaucracy to stay away from corruption and favouritism, his regime has yet to identify the areas of corruption, the mafia involved to check the daily plundering of nations Rs8 billion.
Pakistans ranking on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) had gone from being the 42nd most corrupt country in 2011 to 33rd in 2012. The same year Pakistan had also been declared the seventh most corrupt country out of 97 in the Rule of Law Index of 2012.
This serious situation demands of the present regime to take on the corrupt sternly but despite even Supreme Courts observations to this respect, the PML-N government is apparently following a go-slow policy in this regard. So far almost everything that is happening against the corrupt whether these are the NICL and Ogra cases or the EOBI, Ephedrine and Hajj corruption cases, all is pursued by the Supreme Court.
In the case of Swiss corruption cases, it was the caretaker government and not the present regime that had actually approached the Swiss authorities to know the status of the letter written to the Swiss attorney general in line with the SCs decision for re-opening of corruption cases against President Zardari and others.
The response of the Swiss authorities to the caretakers letter, reached Islamabad when Nawaz Sharif government had taken over the reins of power and it was unearthed that a secret letter in complete disregard to the SCs order was written to the Swiss government to get the cases against President Zardari closed forever.
Three Ms least corrupt in Pakistan: Transparency - thenews.com.pk
