Corruption has Witnessed a “Drastic Increase” in Pakistan: TI

According to the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2021 (CPI 2021) stated that corruption has witnessed a “drastic increase” in Pakistan as compared to the previous year.

As per details, The Transparency International’s report showed, In CPI 2021 that Pakistan scored 28 out of 100, Pakistan’s rank has fallen 16 places to 140 from 124 out of 180 countries,.

Transparency International said that “The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of zero to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean,”

Transparency International’s Pakistan Vice-Chair Justice (retd) Nasira Iqbal while Responding to the development said that “The absence of Rule of Law and State Capture has resulted in substantial low CPI 2021 score of Pakistan compared to CPI 2020, from 31/100 to 28/100 and rank from 124/180 to 140/180.”

Justice (retd) Nasira Iqbal noted that there is no change in CPI 2021 Scores of India and Bangladesh from CPI 2020.

It must be noted that the report comes hours after Prime Minister Imran Khan’s adviser on accountability and interior, Shahzad Akbar, stepped down from office .

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— Transparency International (@anticorruption) January 25, 2022