ISLAMABAD: Amid the opposition’s severe criticism of the ruling PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the wake of Transparency International’s report onCorruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2019, the global anti-corruptionwatchdog on Sunday clarified the report doesn’t imply that corruptionincreased in Pakistan in the year 2019.
The report had ranked Pakistan 117 out of 180 countries on the CPI 2019 asthe country slipped three spots from the previous year’s place.
Head of the watchdog’s Pakistan chapter Sohail Muzaffar said the CPI 2019doesn’t say corruption increased in Pakistan in 2019.
He said the report is based mainly on data collected in the previous PML-Nterm from 2017 onwards.
Muzaffar said at least eight sources were utilised for compiling thereport, adding Pakistan’s falling one point below the 2018 score doesn’tpoint to increase or decrease in corruption in the year 2019.
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Politicos and media misinterpreted the report as some politicians and TVchannels went ahead to tarnish the country’s image, he said, lauding theincumbent government’s steps to cleanse the Augean stables.
Sohail Muzaffar lauding the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) effortsto combat white-collar crime.
Earlier, on Jan 24, Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) onInformation Firdous Ashiq Awan had rejected as biased and planted the ITreport on Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2019.
