PTI govt rejects corruption report, terms it `biased`
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan on Friday rejected the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2019 report released a day earlier by the Transparency International (TI). Pakistan was ranked 120 out of 180 countries on the report by TI, an international non-governmental organization based in Berlin. Talking to the media in Islamabad on Friday afternoon, Awan said that the report was “biased” and `not free and fair`, alleging that there had been more corruption in Pakistan during the government of former premier Nawaz Sharif. `There is a long history of corruption in Sindh. The government of former premier Nawaz Sharif gave...