Govt to Publicly Reveal Assets of Bureaucrats and Officers Soon For IMF

The federal government has fulfilled yet another condition of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by recommending 13 ground-breaking anti-corruption amendments including strict monitoring and publicizing assets of civil servants and government officers, hiring expert lawyers to fight corruption cases, and removing FIA officers from immigration duty at airports. ProPakistani is privy to the report titled “Anti-Corruption Task Force on Review of Institutional Framework of Anti-Corruption in Pakistan”, where it learned that the underlined instructions are in line with IMF recommendations for making the anti-corruption framework in Pakistan more functional. The task force after conducting a thorough review of the in-vogue anti-corruption framework, and obtaining feedback from the executing agencies, practitioners, judges, and stakeholders from the Civil Society unanimously recommended the following: The task force was cognizant of the fact that establishment of an efficient anti-corruption regime and addressing the above-mentioned issues for a country the size of Pakistan in not going to be a short-term process and would require continuous efforts in reviewing structures and the processes involved. This Division remains resolved for the long haul involved and would simultaneously be working along with the newly elected government in overhauling the legal framework in vogue where deemed necessary and the findings of this task force would function as a beacon for lighting our way forward in terms of addressing the issues within our Anti-Corruption framework.