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PAKISTAN receives an overall "Weak" rating in the 2006 Global Integrity Index. The Index assesses national anti-corruption policies and practices in countries around the world. For a printer-friendly .PDF version of this report click here.
This peer-reviewed country report includes:
Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for all 290 Integrity Indicators.
Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.
Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.
Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.
Global Integrity country reports are generated by an in-country team comprising a lead journalist (who prepares the Reporter's Notebook), a lead researcher (who initially scores the Integrity Indicators), and three to five peer reviewers. Global Integrity staff in Washington coordinate the input from all team members and are responsible for final content. For a full description of our methodology and research process please click here.
Reporter's Notebook
The sight of the elderly woman trudging out of the nursery ward at a major public hospital sent shivers down my spine. She was carrying a baby in her arms followed by another young woman, who self-consciously kept adjusting her shawl, trying to conceal her budding womanhood from onlookers.
I overheard them whimpering as they sat on a bench to wrap the baby in a piece of white cloth. "We kept imploring [the doctors] for hours, but nobody bothered to attend to my child," the young mother moaned as tears rolled down her pale cheeks. "It makes no [difference] to them whether you die or survive."
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