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Adil Gillani, an advisor for TI Pakistan, observed in 2012 that if Pakistan checked the menace of corruption and ensured good governance, it would not require a single penny from the outside world. The 2008–2013 PPP-led coalition government was criticised as being the most corrupt in the country's history. [ 24 ]
Benazir Bhutto, accompanied by her husband Zardari and son Bilawal, US visit in 1989, during Bhutto's government. After the dismissal of Benazir Bhutto's first government on 6 August 1990 by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan on grounds of corruption, the government of Pakistan issued directives to its intelligence agencies to investigate the allegations.
In the past, this has contributed to a sense of immunity on the part of members of the ruling party, and to a public perception of rampant corruption among leading politicians – in 1997, Pakistan received the second-worst score in the world on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index.
Media outlets around the world denounced the election as "fraudulent" [8] with western media characterizing the election as already decided in favor of the military's preferred candidate Nawaz Sharif. [9] Vote rigging and irregularities were allegedly to have occurred through the Election Commission of Pakistan’s Form 45s and Form 47s.
Pakistan's leading economists and financial scholars are uncertain to the causes of stagflation, and many attribute this period to several factors including the state's role in war on terror, corruption, tough monetary policies and several other factors.
After the exposure of the first scandal by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in 1989, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan eventually used his constitutional reserve powers that dismissed the first administration of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, charging the Benazir's administration of nepotism, political corruption, poor economic growth, law and order, and foreign affairs, in 1990.: 441 [5]
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has claimed the courts are the country’s only protection from the “law of the jungle” after he was ordered freed from custody in a corruption case.
According to Transparency International, Pakistan is considered one of the most corrupt countries in the world. [2] For the year 2009 it was ranked 139th out of 180 and had a score of 2.4 on the Corruption Perceptions Index. [5]