While President Zardari and other high government officials are abroad for getting billions of dollars in aid from the US and other allies, Transparency International (TI) Pakistan released a report pointing to the boundless corruption in Pakistan. Reacting to the report, Information Secretary of Pakistan people’s Party Fauzia Wahab has rejected the TI report and called it a product of bad intentions.

Fauzia Wahab was addressing a press conference in Karachi on Thursday, September 24, 2009. She questioned the integrity and credibility of Transparency International, rejecting their report of corruption that claimed a U-turn in the anti-corruption efforts in the country after General Musharrfa’s National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) was announced in October 2007. She said that anticorruption departments were working efficiently in the country and so were accountability bodies.

She also criticized media, naming a few channels in particular, for being engaged in flinging baseless charges of corruption against the current democratically elected government. Calling these propaganda charges as part of a conspiracy against the democratic government, Ms Wahab reminded all that nobody will be allowed to harm the country.