by MARVI SIRMED
Mian Nawaz Sharif, Quaid of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) finally announced the expulsion of Pakistan Peoples Party Ministers from Punjab Cabinet while talking to newsmen on Friday February 25. As quoted by The Express Tribune, he gave the reason for his party’s decision as government’s failure to ‘…end corruption and improve economy’ and passing of his forty-five days deadline he gave to do so.
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As for the corruption, his favorite Transparency International’s rankings show that in 1997 (under the Premiership of Mian sahib), Pakistan was 5th most corrupt country among the fifty-two surveyed countries. This ranking rose to level 11 in the year 1998 under him, from among eighty-five surveyed countries (source: Transparency International). In 2007, the last year of military dictator Gen (Rtd) Pervez Musharraf, Transparency International ranked Pakistan as 41st most corrupt country from among 179 surveyed countries (the average scoring remains almost the same for all these years). In 2008 under the current government, Pakistan came to be perceived 45th most corrupt country among 180 surveyed countries, while in 2009 we were at 40th among 180 countries and in 2010 at 37th most corrupt country from among 178 countries that were surveyed. In past three years although, as the detailed results show, the institutions perceived to be most corrupt have been judiciary and customs.
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