Pakistan among top Asia Pacific countries with highest bribery rate: report
BANGKOK: Pakistan has the fourth highest bribery rate among the 16 Asia Pacific countries surveyed by Transparency International. Contrast this with the least corrupt country - Japan, where only 0.2% of the respondents reported paying a bribe.
The report by Berlin-based TI surveyed more than 20,000 people in 16 countries in 2016 spanning the Asia Pacific region from Pakistan to Australia.
More than a quarter of people living in Asia had to pay a bribe while trying to access a public service in the past year, a watchdog…