• IMF highlights need for risk-based asset verification
• Says NAB’s ‘political compromise’ hindering anti-corruption efforts
• Seeks autonomous oversight body to audit internal control processes
ISLAMABAD: With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) describing the country’s top anti-corruption agency, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), as a “political compromise”, the government has agreed to the publication of asset declarations of high-level public officials in 2026 and their risk-based verification to improve the country’s accountability and integrity standards against widespread corruption.
According to IMF’s Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment (GCDA), released by the Ministry of Finance as a structural benchmark of the ongoing $7 billion loan programme, the two sides have agreed under a short-term action plan to “strengthen accountability and integr
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