Pakistan has decided to examine the possibility of retaining a large part of the Corruption Country Examination Report (UNCAC), six months after committing to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a complete disclosure of the report.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has formed a committee led by the Minister of Law with a mandate to examine whether the report must be published in its entirety or if only its executive summary is published, said government sources.

The decision was made a few days before the IMF was planned to request the status of implementation on Pakistan’s commitment to fully publish the report.

An IMF examination mission which started interactions on Monday for the second loan section of $ 1 billion would require an update this Friday on the commitments of Pakistan before reaching a staff level agreement.

This time, the IMF meets Pakistan’s state bank separately in Karachi and with federal government officials in Islamabad. During the first day, the tax related data was discussed with the IMF, including the state of implementation on the tax targets for the first half.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif last week was a committee of the cabinet of seven members on the examination report of UNCAC countries. The Committee includes three federal ministers, three secretaries and managing director of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

Pakistan ratified UNCAC in 2007 and its two examination cycles were completed under the Convention. The country has the right to publish a full report or to print only the executive summary.

“We will publish a federal regulation by the end of September 2024 to formalize our intention to publish the complete and complete examination report of the UNCAC immediately after the end of the examination process,” said the memorandum of economic and financial policies that Pakistan signed in the context of the $ 7 billion software package.

In the same agreement, the IMF had sent the diagnostic and corruption assessment mission to Pakistan last month, which met with the Pakistan judge to examine the appointment of judges and other judicial cases.

The corruption assessment mission will also finalize its evaluation and report will be published by July 2025, according to the $ 7 billion agreement.

The sources said that the Ministry of Law reported the case to the federal office last month and that it had asked for the office of the Cabinet on the issue. However, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has instructed his Minister of Azam Nazir Tarar to examine whether he has to publish a complete or partial report.

Among the other members are the Minister of Information, Atta Tarar, Minister of State for Finance and Revenues Ali Perviz Malik, now raised as Federal Minister, Ministry of the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Secretary Finance Division, of the Secretary The Division of Law and Justice and a DG NAB.

Its second most important term is that the Committee “would examine the options available for Pakistan to publish the full report or its executive summary.

Until the filing of history, the Minister of Information did not comment on the question of the need to retain parts of the report while Islamabad had already committed to publish the full report.

The Committee is responsible for submitting its recommendation on the publication of the report or its executive summary for examination of the cabinet by March 13, which coincides with the end of the IMF mission in Pakistan.

A government official said Nigeria and Qatar had carried out an anti-corruption assessment from Pakistan and submitted a voluminous report. Il a déclaré que certaines des recommandations du rapport étaient déjà en cours de mise en œuvre.

These are linked to the overlap of the work of the Federal Inquiry Agency (FIA) and the NAB and the improvement of the operation of various regulatory organizations.

Le rapport a été préparé avec l’aide du Bureau des Nations Unies sur la drogue et la criminalité (UNODC). Expert teams normally prepare the examination report from 80 to 300 pages and a summary of 7 to 12 pages.

The country’s examination report and the executive summary are sent to the focal point for approval. En cas de désaccord, les examinateurs et le point de contact se livrent à un dialogue pour arriver à un rapport final consensuel, qui n’est publié en totalité qu’avec l’accord du pays en cours de revue.

The summary, once finalized during the agreement, is translated into the six official United Nations languages ​​and made available as a document of the implementation examination group.

Le deuxième cycle du rapport d’examen couvre les sujets des mesures préventives et de la récupération des actifs. The Ministry of Law and Justice has already published the examination report of the anti-corruption working group and develops a plan to implement the recommended actions.

The anti-corruption working group had unanimously recommended that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) informs the rules relating to the declaration of assets of civil servants serving on the basic remuneration scale 17-22 and their spouses. The IMF has now asked to make it a law, which is pending for approval.

The working group had also recommended to modify the law on elections in order to impose non -elected advisers and special assistants to the Prime Minister to provide their declaration of assets and liabilities.

He had recommended to make the necessary changes in the NAB law and the FIA ​​law to guarantee a clear definition of the mandate, prepare a joint offense list and establish coordination mechanisms between the two agencies to work harmoniously on the offenses on which the two agencies have jurisdiction.

There has also been a proposal to provide training on the jurisdictional limits to NAB, FIA and provincial anti-corruption departments.

The working group has recommended to repatriate the FIA ​​investigation agents published in airports for the treatment of immigration and the task of said responsibility towards any other force.

To instill a culture of integrity among civil servants and educate the general public on their right to request the disclosure of public information under the law on the right to information and on the regulatory framework in place to appropriately report any corrupt practice to the appropriate forum, a public campaign had been recommended by the Task Force.