ISLAMABAD: In a recent survey conducted by Transparency International, has shown that citizens in Pakistan felt least empowered with only a third agreeing that people can make a difference (33 percent). This was substantially lower than in any other country that was surveyed.
Service users who paid a bribe by institutions in Pakistan include 75% to police, 68% to courts, 11% to public clinic or hospitals and 9% to public schools.
People in Thailand and Pakistan were particularly likely to think that the police were highly corrupt, with over three quarters saying most or all police officers in their country were corrupt (78 per cent and 76 per cent).
40 percent bribery rate was recorded in Pakistan. The poor are hit hardest by corruption with 38 percent of respondents saying they had to pay a bribe, the highest in any income category.
Yet while poorer people were more likely to be targeted in countries like Thailand, India and Pakistan, the reverse trend was found in places like Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia.
Governments must do more to deliver on their anti-corruption commitments,” Jose Ugaz, the chair of Transparency International, said in a press release.
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