Tuesday, January 25, 2022
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ٹرانسپیرنسی رپورٹ، بھارت بھی پاکستان سے بہتر نکلا - وزیراعظم عمران خان کی حکومت کے کرپشن ختم کرنے کے دعوے دھرے کے دھرے رہ گئے۔
ٹرانسپیرنسی انٹرنیشنل کی کرپشن پر سیپشن انڈکس میں بھارت بھی پاکستان سے بہتر نکلا۔
وزیراعظم عمران خان کی حکومت کے کرپشن ختم کرنے کے دعوے دھرے کے دھرے رہ گئے۔
پی ٹی آئی حکومت نے کرپشن کے معاملے آصف زرداری اور نواز شریف دورِ حکومت کو بھی مات دے دی ہے۔
ٹرانسپیرنسی انٹرنیشنل کی رپورٹ کے مطابق 180 ممالک کی فہرست میں پاکستان کا پہلے 124واں نمبر تھا جو اب ترقی کرتے ہوئے 140ویں نمبر پر آگیا ہے۔
ٹرانسپیرنسی کی رپورٹ میں بھارت بھی پاکستان سے بہتر نکلا ہے، جو فہرست میں 85ویں نمبر پر ہے۔
ٹرانسپرنسی انٹرنیشنل کے مطابق ایسا صرف میڈیا آؤٹ لیٹس، این جی اوز کو بند کرنا اور انسانی حقوق کے کارکنوں کا قتل سبب ہوا ہے۔
رپورٹ کے مطابق صحافیوں اور سیاستدانوں کی جاسوسی کرنا پاکستان کی کرپشن پرسیپشن انڈکس 2021ء کو بہتر نہیں بناسکتا، حکومتیں اس کے برعکس کام کرنے کی کوشش کریں۔
https://jang.com.pk/news/1041856
#Pakistan - #PTI govt broke all records of corruption - Pakistan slides 16 spots, ranks 140th on CPI
In TI's Corruption Perceptions Index 2021, Pakistan scores 28 out of 100
The absence of a central agency to coordinate action against corruption was a core factor in driving Pakistan to its lowest in recent years on a global perceived corruption index in 2020, watchdog Transparency International said on Tuesday.
The group’s annual report on business leaders’ perceptions of corruption — which gave Pakistan a score of 28 out of 100, down from 31 in 2020 — also cited the “failure” of the state to uphold rights and consult citizens.
That put Pakistan, at 140, behind India in 85th place, while Bangladesh stood at 147 with a Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) of 26.
The 2021 index ranks 180 countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. The index assigns scores of between one and 100, one being highly corrupt and 100 clean.
The score is derived from a range of 13 sources measuring corruption perceived by experts and business executives. It measures the use of public office for private gain, nepotism, bribery, the diversion of public money and state capture.
The score is also a reflection of the strength of integrity and anti-corruption systems, including “the existence of adequate laws on financial disclosure, conflict of interest prevention and access to information”.
Transparency trumpets the CPI as “the most widely used indicator of corruption worldwide”. But the high-profile and widely reported index has amassed its fair share of critics over the last two decades.
A Guardian report attacked the CPI’s reliance on the opinions of a small group of experts and business people. “This embeds a powerful and misleading elite bias in popular perceptions of corruption and can lead to inappropriate policy responses,” it said.
Pakistan is among two-thirds of nations across the world that are either stagnating or showing signs of deterioration in their anti-corruption efforts.
Under the government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), which came to power on an anti-corruption platform, Pakistan’s ranking has gradually slid. In 2019, it was 120 out of 180 nations, 124 in the following year, and in 2021, it slipped further to 140.
In contrast, in 2018, the last year of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government, the rating stood at 117 out of 180 governments.
Commenting on the report, the vice chairperson of the Berlin-based agency’s Pakistan chapter, retired Justice Nasira Javed Iqbal, observed there was no change in CPI scores of India and Bangladesh from 2020.
The top performers in the Asia Pacific are New Zealand (88), Singapore (85) and Hong Kong (76).
However, most countries sit firmly below the global average of 43. This includes three countries — Cambodia (23), Afghanistan (16) and North Korea (16) — with some of the lowest scores in the world.
“While countries in the Asia Pacific have made great strides in controlling bribery for public services, an average score of 45 out of 100 on the 2021 CPI shows much more needs to be done to solve the region’s corruption problems,” a Transparency report said.
The government is also battling to improve the regulations to avert being blacklisted by the global financial body, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), in what could be a bitter blow to an economy already beset by a weakening currency, rising inflation and slower growth.
Many have urged the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to push banks to improve anti-money laundering systems and information sharing across the sector.
RESIGNATION OF GOVT SOUGHT
Commenting on the contents of the report, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif declared Transparency International testified for the second time the PTI government “has broken all records of corruption in the last 20 years”.
In a statement, Sharif, who is facing a plethora of corruption cases, claimed corruption had “decreased” during his party’s government as a result of “transparency, good governance and legal reforms”.
Under deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s “transparency [and] good governance”, corruption had declined as legal reforms of PML-N improved the ranking of Pakistan in the corruption index by 23 points and the country’s image improved in the world.
https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2022/01/25/pakistan-ranks-140-out-of-180-on-global-corruption-index/
#Pakistan - There are difficulties in regularizing the population of Gujjar Nala, but there is no obstacle in the regularization of Bani Gala – Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that he will save the Katchi Abadis across Sindh, and will give property rights to the residents there. He added that PPP has never opposed giving plots to any judge, bureaucrat, or anyone else, hopefully, no one will object to the poor getting their due share either.
Addressing an initial leasing ceremony for 150 people under a scheme to give property rights to residents of more than 8,000 houses in 19 mahallas of Larkana, Chairman PPP said that the first thing the incumbent Prime Minister had done after being elected was to regularize his Bani Gala home for a small fee. We hoped that when the Prime Minister was regularizing his house, the same policy would be applied to the slums across the country.
“Instead, one slum after another was demolished,” said Chairman PPP. “And it seemed as if all the forces of the country were united in snatching away roofs from atop the heads of the poor.”
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari further said that it is tragic that we face difficulties in regularizing the population of Gujjar Nala, but there is no obstacle in the regularization of Bani Gala.
“There are difficulties in regularizing the slums of Orangi Town, but Bahria Town is regularized,” said Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
Chairman PPP said that he was proud of the people of Larkana who had formed organizations to save their homes and started a movement. Today, that movement has been successful. He said that a new journey begins today. Ownership rights will be given to slum dwellers across Sindh, where they have been living for forty years. He further said that the task of rescuing the slums will be intensified from February. We will do our best to give the poor people their rights.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that this is the difference of perception and opinion as to what kind of Pakistan you want to see. A Pakistan where a common man, a job seeker, a middle-class man, invests the savings of his whole life in projects like Nasla Tower. There are many other such oppressive examples. Or a Pakistan that is the Pakistan of Quaid-e-Awam and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, where every man from every class gets his due share.
“If the people support us, we will create a Pakistan where everyone is provided with the rights they deserve,” said Chairman PPP. “The journey that has started today from the slums of Larkana will start in the whole of Sindh, including Karachi.” He said that after the next general election, we will give property rights to the citizens living in slums all over Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari handed over lease certificates to 150 people in the first phase of the project to give property rights to the slum dwellers of Larkana.
Present on the occasion were Special Assistant to Chief Minister Sindh Liaquat Ali Askani, Members of Assembly and other leaders.