LONDON: Shehbaz Sharif, Leader of the Opposition and President Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has expressed shock on the Transparency International’s report about Pakistan’s descend in corruption index, termed the incumbent government and Prime Minister Imran Khan as the worst.
Talking to media here, he said that according to the new global report, corruption has soared in the country whereas things were moving towards progress in former premier Nawaz Sharif’s rule.
PML-N president expressed that the previous government was better in terms of transparency as corruption had a low rate despite billions of trillions of projects. He asserted how the current rulers will respond to this revelation now.
Shehbaz Sharif went on to say that after failing on every front, the bread was snatched from the people. He emphasized on tracing the culprits and getting rid of the current rulers as soon as possible.
Despite of ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) claims of taking measures for accountability and reducing corruption from the country, Pakistan’s ranking has dropped to 120 out of 180 countries with a worse score of 32 out of 100, according to the annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2019 released by the Transparency International.
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