The largest international Anti-Corruption agency is Transparency International (TI - located at www.Transparency.org ) , and they issue many reports, including the Annual Corruption Perception Index that ranks about 170 countries on how corrupt they are perceived. Iraq and Afghanistan usually are near the very bottom, and they do not have TI offices, but Pakistan does.
When I was in Iraq in 2004-2006, I looked into forming a TI office there, but the process requires the collaboration of several NGO's who fund it, and that was not possible then.
So, the Pakistan TI office says in the articles below that they are being harassed by the Interior Minister for monitoring corruption, and they might close the office. Pakistan is rated in the TI Index as being the world's 34th MOST corrupt nation. The TI office has been there 10 years.
You can see the full TI Corruption Perception Index HERE, and the US is 22nd from the top, where New Zealand, Singapore and Denmark tie for first place out of 178 countries, where AFghanistan is 176th, Iraq is 175, and Pakistan is 143rd on the list.
HERE is the official TI news article about the problems, which was issues from their Berlin HQ yesterday.
HERE is the NY Times article and there are many more.
According to the NY Times, the US foreign aid arm, USAID, signed a recent agreement with Pakistan's TI to provide an anti-fraud reporting hotline, which is probably why Pakistani officials are not complaining about TI.
Below is an article from the UK's Daily Telegraph as published in the Vancouver Sun about the new hotline, and reasons for it.
However, the establishment of an INDEPENDENT hotline is a good sign, and is
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