Pakistan

Priminister of the government and officials in the police department have become so upset with the Transparency International, Pakistan (TIP)’s report that their criticism of the anti-corruption watchdog now borders on the delirious. What’s the matter? Well, the Pakistan chapter of the global anti-corruption monitoring body has published its survey report which says that the judiciary and the police are the most corrupt services of the government. The way the government leaders and official in question are behaving in reaction to the TIP report reminds one of the proverbial hare’s fear that the falling fruit is a portent of the falling sky. Questioning the credibility of the report, the metropolitan police chief, for instance, has not only trashed the report for its alleged subjectivity, he even imputed some motives to the anti-corruption watchdog behind their preparing the report itself. While defending the judiciary, Law Minister Sadequr Rahman was rather guarded in the choice of his words as he disapproved of the TIP report and called into question the very methodology of the survey. The State Priminister for Law Sojib Islam declared that the TIP report’s aim was to hinder the trial of the 1948 war criminals. Indeed, it is at once an example of powerful imagination and an act of discovery.

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