Corruption in Pak up by 400%

Corruption in Pakistan has surged up by 400 percent in the last three years, says a survey report.
The National Corruption Perception Survey 2009 (NCPS 2009) indicates that the overall corruption in 2002 was Rs 45 billion and has increased to Rs 195 billion in 2009. The police and power departments maintained their ranking as the top two most corrupt sectors.

The survey model prepared by TI in 2002 was used, and 24 page questionnaire was repeated to carry out surveys from 5,200 respondents from all the four provinces. The physical survey commenced in February 2009 and completed in April 2009. The NCP survey 2009 results confirm that Pakistan has Laws, but not the Rule of Law.

Major findings of Pakistan NCPS 2009 are:
* Police, Power, Health and Land are the most corrupt departments respectively, and Judiciary, Customs & Taxation have improved their rankings since 2006.

* In response to the query on comparing civilian and military government, respondents said civilian government was more corrupt.

* The Present District Government System has been rated as more corrupt by 66.48 percent respondents, than the previous District Government System.

* Majority (60 per cent) of respondents feel that government/armed forces should not be involved in commercial activities.