Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) has published for the first time plans to tackle the threat of “endemic corruption” in 29 priority countries, including Pakistan, Somalia and Nepal.
The anti-corruption plan for Pakistan, which is due to receive £971m between 2012-15, will involve support for Pakistan’s public accounts committee and its election commission. “This will include calling more frequently for corruption to be tackled in regular direct dialogue with government, including discussions at federal, provincial and individual programme level,” reported Guardian newspaper.
Four-fifths of Pakistanis view government corruption as widespread. Transparency International ranked Pakistan 139 out of 176 countries in its corruption perception index. This month, Pakistan’s supreme court ordered the arrest of the prime minister, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, on corruption charges.
In an example of a DfID-backed initiative in Pakistan, every citizen who contacts Punjab province’s local government, tax, police, health or education services will receive free automated calls or text messages where they can report if they were forced to pay a bribe or experienced bad customer service. During a three-year pilot, several corrupt officials were suspended or sacked.
DfID also plans to improve public financial management and support citizen initiatives in all partner countries, including Nepal, which will receive £4m from DfID for anti-corruption measures, channelled through the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.
"During a three-year pilot, several corrupt officials were suspended or sacked."
Oh, so it is an ongoing project….funny thing is, corruption has MULTIPLIED in the last three years (and "several" is a funny word…doubt "many" — if any — were "suspended or sacked")
First thing DFID and UK govt should do is to stop giving political asylum and visa to corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, and generals and stop selling properties to them
they let me enter their country as a bargaining chip so that they use them later . or maybe in install them again as a leader to a corrupt country so that can loot more more while remaining loyal to them ..
how about investigating How altaf run his office in UK ? …
It is far too spread in the society like cancer. Death is the only resolution.
Its better to sale pakistan to british or americans because we dont have a single admin dept who can tackle the black sheeps..and although UK is a safe heaven for corrupts and golbal terrorist for e.g alaf hussain , raja pervaiz ashraf
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