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| India-Pakistan |
| Pakistan #147 on corruption list |
| 2006-11-07 |
| A Transparency International survey of 163 countries based on perceived levels of corruption saw Pakistan slip down two places compared to its ranking of 145 last year, suggesting a rise in corruption. According to the survey, Haiti, Myanmar and Iraq were perceived as the most corrupt countries in the world while Finland was seen as the cleanest. Transparency International (TI) said in its annual Corruption Perceptions Index that some of the world’s poorest nations were also the most sleaze-ridden, undermining international development efforts. Pakistan’s neighbours India, Iran and China were ranked as 74, 106 and 71 on the list of 163 countries. The Berlin-based corruption watchdog ranked the countries based on perceived levels of corruption among public officials and politicians in its 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). The index score ranges between zero, for highly corrupt, and 10, which is very clean. TI said that corruption was “shockingly” rampant worldwide with almost three-quarters of the countries in the report scoring below five, including all low-income countries and all but two African states. Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, was ranked last, just below Iraq, Myanmar and Guinea, reflecting what TI said was a high correlation between violence, poverty and corruption. |
| Posted by:Fred |