Much has been made about Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) Report 2019 that has reduced Pakistan’s score from 33 to 32 and dropped its ranking from 117 to 120 on a year-on-year basis. It is odd that PTI’s ‘spin masters’ have not bothered looking at the data behind the report. TI’s report, therefore, is not representative of the PTI government, rather the PML-N’s final months in power. The table below shows a comparison of the TI’s CPI Reports from 2018 and 2019. The data, which is easily available on TI’s website, does not make mention of which period of review each source is considering.

Source: Pakistan Today January 25, 2020 13:07 UTC