Lets ACT AGAINST CORRUPTION. Well, the POsition of Pakistan has improved by one point. We can say something is better than nothing :D Here is a detailed Report on it. ISLAMABAD: In an encouraging news from Berlin for Pakistan, the Transparency International (TI) in its global report on corruption for 2014, found the country having done the best ever in 20 years of TI’s yearly assessment of Corruption Perception Index (CPI). However, as against the last year’s TI global report, Pakistan has improved by only one point, which demands the government should wage a full-fledged war against corruption. The Transparency International global report, shared by the TIP on condition that it must not be aired on TV on Tuesday but could be published in Wednesday’s newspaper, shows Pakistan having scored 29 out of 100 in the CPI, ranked 126 out of 175 countries. Although the report shows Pakistan having reduced corruption, it is still the 50th most corrupt country out of the 175 states assessed by Transparency International. As against Pakistan, India did exceptionally well and was rated 86 out of 175, which means India is 40 positions above Pakistan. Last year – 2013 – the TI report showed corruption having considerably declined here but the 2014 year report is the best for Pakistan in 20 years of TI’s CPI. During the mid-nineties, Pakistan was once rated as the second most corrupt country in the world. Last year, Pakistan’s rank was 127th and this year, it is 126th which means it has improved by one number. In 2012, Pakistan was the 138th most corrupt country. Apparently, this improvement in the TI’s report is because of the absence of mega corruption cases at the highest levels in the government. However, the corruption at lower levels in government departments and public offices continues to be rampant and for the same reasons, Pakistan is still the 50th most corrupt country and even lacks behind India by 40 positions. It is believed that if the government makes the institutions like NAB, FIA and provincial anti-corruption departments empowered, independent and neutral, corruption in Pakistan could be effectively checked. However, to this effect, the government has not moved an inch as yet. According to the TI’s press release, “Though in CPI 2014, score of 29 out of 100, and ranking of 126/175 are the best Pakistan has ever achieved since the first CPI was issued in 1995, Sohail Muzaffar, chairman TI Pakistan said that he hopes the government will now work with new vigour to combat against corruption.” The release added, “More than two-thirds of the 175 countries in the 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index score below 50, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean). Denmark comes out on top in 2014 with a score of 92 while North Korea and Somalia share last place, scoring just eight. The scores of several countries rose or fell by four points or more. The biggest falls were in Turkey (-5), Angola, China, Malawi and Rwanda (all -4). The biggest improvers were Côte d´Ivoire, Egypt, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (+5), Afghanistan, Jordan, Mali and Swaziland (+4).” The press release said that corruption was a problem for all economies, requiring leading financial centres in the European Union and the US to act together with fast-growing economies to stop the corrupt from getting away with it, anti-corruption group Transparency International said on Tuesday. It added, “In the 20th edition of the Corruption Perceptions Index, scores for China (with a score of 36 out of 100), Turkey (45) and Angola (19) were among the biggest fallers with a drop of 4 or 5 points, despite average economic growth of more than 4 percent over the last four years. “The 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that economic growth is undermined and efforts to stop corruption fade when leaders and high level officials abuse power to appropriate public funds for personal gain,” said José Ugaz, the chair of Transparency International. “Corrupt officials smuggle ill-gotten assets into safe havens through offshore companies with absolute impunity,” Ugaz added. “Countries at the bottom need to adopt radical anti-corruption measures in favour of their people. Countries at the top of the index should make sure they don’t export corrupt practices to underdeveloped countries.” The Corruption Perceptions Index is based on expert opinions of public sector corruption. Countries scores can be helped by open government where the public can hold leaders to account, while a poor score is a sign of prevalent bribery, lack of punishment for corruption and public institutions that don’t respond to citizens’ needs. Transparency International called on countries at the top of the index where public sector corruption is limited to stop encouraging it elsewhere by doing more to prevent money laundering and to stop secret companies from masking corruption.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:54:52 +0000
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