Islamabad: President Pervez Musharraf's regime in Pakistan is more corrupt than the previous governments of Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, according to a survey by a corruption watchdog.
In the survey conducted by Transparency International's Pakistan chapter, a whopping 67 per cent respondents said the government formed by Musharraf after the 2002 elections was
corrupt.
The figure was 33 per cent for the military government headed by Musharraf between 1999-2002.
Only 10 per cent of those questioned said that the first term headed by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif government between 1990-93 was corrupt, but 34 per cent thought his second term between 1996-99 was corrupt, the results of the survey published in the Daily Times said.
Similarly only eight per cent of the people thought that first term of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto government between 1988-90 was corrupt but 48 per cent said her second term in office between 1993-96 was corrupt.
Questioned about corruption in government departments, the respondents were of the opinion that in per capital terms, citizens had to pay higher bribes to customs, followed by the land department, judiciary, taxation, banking, power, education, health, police and railways.
The watchdog's 2006 report was based on a sample of 4000 urban and semi-urban citizens in all four provinces of the country.
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