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Corruption in Pak worth staggering Rs 223 billion in 2010: Transparency International | Corruption has evolved as one of the major concerns for
the Pakistan government, with a report of Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) revealing that a whopping 223 billion rupees were expended in various corrupt
practices in 2010. The report titled the National Corruption Perception Survey
2010 showed an enormous rise in corruption from 195 billion rupees in 2009 to
223 billion rupees in 2010. According to the report, police and bureaucracy maintained
their ranking as the two most corrupt public sector institutions in 2010 also.
Land administration institutions were placed third in corrupt practices, The Daily
Times reports. Corruption in the judiciary, education and local government sectors
has also increased as compared to 2009, the report said. TIP Chairman Syed Adil
Gilani said that about 70 percent of people believed that the present Pakistan
People’s Party ( PPP ) led coalition government was more corrupt that the previous
military regime of General Pervez Musharraf. “In terms of bribery, land administration
was the most corrupt sector, where average bribe paid in each incident was 46,
414 rupees,” Gilani said. He stressed that rampant corruption has severely dented
Pakistan ’s international image, and that some drastic measures were needed to
resurrect the problem. “Corruption is the root cause of all problems in the country
and owing to the lack of governance in Pakistan , the credibility of the country
has fell internationally. This can be observed from the fact that the Friends
of Pakistan Trust Fund, being managed by the World Bank, has not issued any funds
to the country in the last two years,” Gilani said. “The government of Pakistan
needs to address corruption, as the judiciary did by announcing a judicial policy
with a zero tolerance for corruption and the Pakistan Army did by removing its
senior officers from civilian postings,” he added. |
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