- TI-Pakistan held a meeting of its Education Committee to discuss eradicating corruption from the education sector. Committees were formed to identify corruption prone areas at different education levels. - TI-Pakistan's Anti-Fraud Hotline has received over 10,000 calls reporting fraud of USAID funded projects in Pakistan. The hotline allows citizens to anonymously report corruption through various means. - TI-Pakistan's Advocacy and Legal Advice Center continues to provide legal assistance to citizens facing corruption. In the recent quarter, it received over 500 complaints, mostly regarding public procurement, education, police and property rights.

1. Reporting
Corruption Made
Easier02
Eradication
of corruption
from Education
The quarterly newsletter of Transaprency International-Pakistan
Students document
Truth on Camera
0503ASSISTANT EDITOR: SABEELA SIDDIKI LAYOUT: ASIF SHAKEELEDITOR: ASIF SHAKEEL
CORRUPTIONis like a
ball of snow, once it’s set
a rolling it must increase.
CharlesCalebColton
It is said that worst democracy is better than best dictatorship but
it is also true that democracy without accountability is a useless
entity. It makes people rethink about the democratic system. This
is actually what is happening in India these days. The campaign for
the establishment of an independent Ombudsman’s office initiated
by the known social worker Anna Hazare gradually took the form
of a mass movement with people from all walks of life supporting it.
Supreme Court of Pakistan has recently begun hearing on the
turbulent law and order
situation in Karachi. This is
a welcome initiative which
deserves appreciation as
continuation of the same
situation would, God forbid,
have been disastrous. Any
positive outcome of this
hearing will be another
feather in the Apex Court’s
cap. It will be proof that an
independent judiciary is a
must for a true democracy
which is meant for the
welfare of the people and
not for minting money in
the name of democracy.
Though there are disappointments from people
whom we expect to run the country with integrity but
there are obvious signs of improvement. This can be seen
in the form of a vibrant media, judicial activism and
courageous civil society. The only thing we need to do is to
support those who wish for a better and beautiful Pakistan.
-Editor
JULY-SEPTEMBER 2011
VOLUME: XIX
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2. 2
TI-PEDUCATIONCOMMITTEE
Transparency International-
Pakistan’s Education Committee
meeting took place in Karachi on
September 24, 2011. Chairman
of the Committee and Ex-Chief
Justice, Federal Shariat Court,
Justice (R) Haziq ul Khairi presided
over the meeting while Advisor,
Transparency International-
Pakistan Syed Adil Gilani also
graced the occassion.
The meeting began with recitation of Holy
Qur’an. Prof. Dr. Kafeel Ahmed told the
participants that the meeting had been
called as follow up to the earlier meetings
on the same issue. Two committees, for
school, college and university level were
also formed during the meeting. Each
committee comprises of three educationists.
These committees will work to identify the
corruption prone areas at their respective
levels.
Syed Adil Gilani told the participants that
according to a recent report, there are 30,000
ghost schools in Pakistan on which millions
are spent every year. Justice (R) Haziq ul
Khairi said that we need to emphasize more
on deteriorating situation of government
schools as poor send their children to these
schools where they should be provided with
quality education.
Participants while expressing their
viewpoint said that businessmen and
industrialists should also be made a part of
theseeffortsasthiswillhelpinstrengthening
the outreach of the committee. Similarly
educational institutions of all kind
especially religious seminaries should also
be given representation in the committee.
A resolution was passed in the meeting
against illegal hike in private school fees.
Participants said that private schools in the
province of Sindh are charging 30 to 40%
higher fees this year as compared to last
year. This is in clear violation of the law and
the government should take appropriate
legal action against them. It was decided
with mutual consensus that a seminar
in this connection may be organized next
month.
TI-P Calls for Eradication of Corruption in Education Sector
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3. 3
ANTI-FRAUDHOTLINE
Anti-Fraud Hotline
REPORTING CORRUPTION MADE EASIER
Transparency International
Pakistan’s Anti-Fraud Hotline
is monitoring USAID funded
projects in Pakistan. The
response to the hotline has
been immense.
TI Pakistan is in-charge of receiving,
evaluating and transferring complaints to the
USAID Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
Investigation and resolution of complaints
is primarily the responsibility of the OIG in
Washington.
The project’s impact has been immediately
felt. Citizens and beneficiaries of USAID
assistance can now report cases of fraud
through a variety of mediums;via phone,
email, website, post or in person. Critical
to the programme’s success has been its
penetrative and extensive media campaign;
the ads, which mention the project
purpose and the toll free hotline number,
have featured in the following media:
TV, Newspapers, Radio and Billboards.
Additionally, word of mouth has also been
effective.
TI Pakistan and the USAID Anti-Fraud
Hotline have been able to form a strategic
partnership with various media corporations
for the benefit of the public good.
Billboards have been placed at various sites
all over of Pakistan. At present, USAID AFH
billboards can be seen in various parts of
Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi AJK, Thatta,
Hyderabad, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta,
Mansehra, Swat, Balakot, Kohat, Gilgit, and
Turkham.
The response from the media campaign has
been tremendous. More than 10,000 calls
have been registered with theAnti-Fraud
Hotline since its inception in January
2011,allofwhichconstitutesaspecialized
fraud prevention and detection program
to support development efforts in
Pakistan.
A large volume of complaints are
related to service delivery issues
which are followed by many requests
for humanitarian aid. The hotline
welcomes not only requests and
complaints related to USAID but
has also been receiving complaints
from organizations that are not US
funded. These complaints/requests
are put into a proper database
and forwarded to the concerned
organizations.
Procurement frauds have been another
point of focus at the Office of Inspector
General at USAID as a number of
important complaints have been
received by the hotline regarding major
projects in Pakistan. These complaints
have reported many violations of the
Pakistan Public Procurement Rules
2004 by Government of Pakistan’s
agencies.
TI-Pakistan’s Anti Fraud Hotline has
simultaneously incorporated a grass roots
program in addition to its top-down, trickle
down approach.
The Anti Fraud Hotline is an important
tool for the Pakistani people to
provide feedback to USAID so that
it can counter fraud and corruption
of different forms in its projects in
Pakistan and make development work
more transparent.
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4. 4
ADVOCACY&LEGALADVICECENTRE(ALAC)
Advocacy and Legal Advice
Center (ALAC) of TI-Pakistan
continue to serve the people of
Pakistan who face corruption in
getting their work done through
legal means.
In the 2nd Quarter of Year 4,ALAC received
587 complaints, out of which 103 complaints
have been converted into cases. 81%
complaints were reported by male, while
women reported only 6% of the complaints.
In this quarter, 68% of the complaints
generated from urban areas, 12% from
semi urban and 5% from rural areas. Public
Procurement, Property Rights, Education
and Police are the areas in which most of
the complaints generated. 5 cases have been
successful and 19 cases have been partially
successful, while rest of the opened cases is
still in process.
ALAC has also started its advocacy
campaign “Say No to Corruption” by
Liaison with Police Department” in 3
Tehsil of Toba Tek Singh-Punjab. ALAC
is specifically working on the complaint
procedure of police department, i.e. lodging
First Information Report (FIR). Citizen will
be informed about, nature of crimes, when
to lodge an FIR, how to lodge it, what are
the necessary information a complainant
must have at the time of lodging it, and
if the FIR is not lodged due to corruption,
what are the alternative methods or
procedures for lodging it. The campaign
has been started with the help of our TNN-
Punjab coordinator, Rural Development
Organization (RDO)
(Basedondatafrom1stJulyto20thSeptember2011)
ALAC Joins hands with Police department
Anti-Corruption campaign launched in Toba Tek Singh
The debriefing seminar for FK Norway
South-South exchange program was held
in Bangkok on 2nd and 3rd July 2011.
All TI South Asian sub-regional chapters
participating in the program attended the
seminar. TI Pakistan was represented
by Director Projects, Dr N.I. Khowaja.
The first day
was filled
with idea-
s h a r i n g ,
speeches and brainstorming sessions. The
welcome speech was given by Mr. Jan
Olav Baarøy, Deputy Director General
Programmes, FK Norway. His speech
was followed by presentations from Lead
Partners of Forum Asia, INEB, FTG,
Transparency International and HelpAge
International. Lead Partner for TI
Exchange Project, TI Nepal’s presentation
was made by its Executive Director Mr.
Ashish Thapa. He discussed the exchange
from various aspects and expressed his
satisfaction on the progress till date. While
the day concluded with an activity based
session where partners and participants
made timeline charts to elaborate
challenges they faced and benefits that
were gained from exchange program.
The second day began with partner
presentations. Partner representatives
and participants
from TI
Pakistan, TI
B a n g l a d e s h ,
TI Nepal, TI Sri Lanka, TI India and TI
Maldives made their presentations which
stressed on the need to learn from current
experiences so that future exchange fellows
can be facilitated in the best possible way.
The seminar culminated when FK
Norway, for the first time, gave
certificates to the exchange fellows
who had successfully completed their
programs. The certificates were given by
Ms Grete Thingelstad, Deputy Director
General Administration, FK Norway.
Partnership for development:
FK Exchange enters third year
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5. 5
MISCELLANEOUS
The Screening & Award Ceremony
of first ever ‘Anti –Corruption
Documentary Film Competition’
under Transparency International-
Pakistan took place in the month
of July at Institute of Business
Management, Karachi.
The competition began in May with
documentary films from throughout the
country and culminated with screening
of the 6 shortlisted documentaries out
of a total of sixteen. The Screening was
attended by the participating teams,
faculty members of different institutions,
NAB representative, Media personnel,
etc.
Addressing on the event, Mr. Adil Gilani,
Advisor, Transparency International
Pakistan said that everybody is
well acquainted with the menace of
corruption, but seldom agrees that it
starts from one’s own home. He said
that the future rests in the hands of
the youth and that is the reason why
TI-Pakistan has different awareness
campaigns at different levels of
educational institutions, which in turn
is helping TI-P to achieve its aim to
make Pakistan a less corrupt country.
Mr. Gilani added that the root cause of
allproblemsiscorruption,whiletheonly
way out is the correct implementation
of the rule of law.
Chief guest Dr. Javed Ansari, Dean,
Institute of Business Management
said that people usually consider
corruption as dishonesty, immorality
Girls from Lahore clinched the title
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and wickedness but in actual it is more
than that. He was of the opinion that the
reports prepared define corruption in an
extensive manner i.e. violation of rule
of law. He said that the anti-corruption
strategies should be such that the will
to attempt corruption, violate law and
prefer dishonesty is eliminated.
The top-6 documentaries were then
screened for the audience. After the
screening, the judges were invited
to express their views about the
documentaries and the event. “It was
very heartening to see the youth being
so involved and sending out thought-
provoking messages through the
documentaries”, said Ms. Seher Usman
of Indus Valley School. Syed Hassaan
Mahmood, Documentary Cell Head
from AAJ News said that we need to
realize that corruption begins at home
and we should try to eliminate this
menace ourselves instead of waiting for
someone else to do it for us. “Awareness
campaigns like these will create waves
in the society. We are happy to have
enlightened students working for this
cause,” said Mr. Abdul Hafeez Sidiki,
Additional Director, NAB.
The winners of the first, second and
third positions were Lahore College
for Women University, Islamia
University Bahawalpur and Institute of
Management Sciences, Peshawar while
the ‘Best Use of Theme’ was won by
Institute of Business Administration,
Karachi. The Runner-Up teams were
Bahauddin Zakaria University, Multan
and Hyderabad Institute ofArts, Science
and Technology.
“We should try
to eliminate
this menace
o u r s e l v e s
instead of
waiting for
someone else
to do it for us.
”
MISCELLANEOUS
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7. The 12th Youth in Governance
workshop was held at The University
of Azad Jammu and Kashmir,
Muzaffarabad on 13th & 14th
September 2011. Students from 21
universities from all over Pakistan
attended the workshop.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Khalil A.
Qureshi H.I;S.I, Director, School of Science
& Engineering, LUMS, said that corruption
can be prevented in procurement through
only better decisionmaking.
Mr. Shakel Ahmed, former Addl. Secretary,
Govt. of Pakistan said that leaders are
elected by us thus we are equally responsible
for their wrongdoings.
Prof. Dr. Raja Nasim Akhtar, Dean, Faculty
of Arts, The University of Azad Jammu and
Kashmir was of the opinion that interference
of political parties in our educational system is
badly affecting the already destroyed system.
Mr. Rauf Khalid, President, National Institute
of Cultural Studies, in his presentation
said that we should select a leader from the
masses.
Dr. Parvez Tahir, Former member, Planning
Commission of Pakistan said that misuse of
authority eventually leads to failure of entire
system.
At the end of the session, another group
activity was conducted on “Accountability
Mechanisms”. The judge of this activity
session was Mr. Shakel Ahmed.
Participants were asked to write nature
of corruption that exists in the selected
sectors and what made it impossible to curb
corruption, participants were also asked to
suggest an accountability mechanism. The
winning groups were given prizes.
This time around, the Youth in
Governance (YinG) project reaches
the capital of Azad Kashmir with the
message of anti-corruption
YOUTHINGOVERNANCE
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Justice (R)
Nasira Javid
Iqbal has served
asJudgeLahore
High Court and
has had the
honor of being
the Member of Human Rights
Commission, Geneva, Supreme
Court Bar Association, Law and
Justice Commission of Pakistan.
A N N O U N C E M E N T
TI-P Board of Trustee has expanded to nine trustees with the inclusion of Justice
(R) Nasira Javed Iqbal, Ms. Ayesha Siddiqa and Muhammad Hidayatullah. TI-P
hopes that this addition would help in strengthening the war against corruption.
Ms. Ayesha
Siddiqa is an
independent
S e c u r i t y ,
S t r a t e g i c
Affairs Expert
and a known
author She started her career
as a Civil Servant and is also a
VisitingScholaratJohnHopkins
University.
Twelfth Youth in GovernanceWorkshop
M r .
Hidayatullah
has been in
theaccounting
and financial
a d v i s o r y
profession for
over 32 years. His experience
isspreadoverawidespectrum
of industries covering fields of
statutory audits.

8. TI-PACTIVITIES
Address: Transparency International-Pakistan
5-C, 3rd floor, Khayaban e Ittehad,
Phase VII, D.H.A., Karachi.
Ph: +92213 539 040 8/9
Fax: +92213 539 041 0
E-mail: tip.newsletter@gmail.com
Web: transparency.org.pk
Facebook: Transparency International-Pakistan (TI-P)
July
Mr. Saad Rashid, Executive Director TI-P, attended the Transparency
International’s Asia Pacific Regional Meeting held in Kuala Lumpur.
TI-P’s nine employees attended the Training program on the subject of Report
Writing Skills, conducted by Messrs, Civil Society Resource Center of Aga Khan
Foundation.
Thescreening&awardDistributionCeremonyfortheAllPakistanInterUniversity
Anti-Corruption Documentary Film Competition was held at Institute of Business
Management Karachi.
August
USAID team visited the office of Transparency International Pakistan where
they met TI-P’s chairman Mr. Syed Adil Gilani and Executive Director Mr. Saad
Rashid.
September
Aga Khan Foundation CSRC team visited TI-Pakistan’s office.
The 12th Youth in Governance Workshop took place at The University of Azad
Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad.
TI-P representative met with the EDO (Community Development) Layyah to
discuss ‘One Against Corruption’ Monitoring project.
A follow-up meeting of TI-P Education Committee was held at Pearl Continental,
Karachi.
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