Pakistan Slides on Corruption Perception Index for Second Consecutive Year
Pakistan Slides on Corruption Perception Index for Second Consecutive Year
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Opposition slams incumbent government’s claims of tackling corruption as score drops one point below last year’s ranking
Transparency International on Thursday released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index 2020, with Pakistan’s ranking dropping to 124 out of 180 countries with a score of 31 out of 100—a single point worse than its 2019 score of 32.
The opposition, already at loggerheads with the incumbent Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led government, was quick to seize on the opportunity to declare as lies Prime Minister Imran Khan’s claims of tackling corruption as a central plank of his governance. “The Transparency International report is a slap on the face of Imran Khan’s lies and falsehoods,” claimed Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)’s Mariyum Aurangzeb. “The ‘selected’ government has failed in every aspect of governance and has merely succeeded in looting, lying and deceiving,” she added.