Bureaucrats will also have to declare their assets
In line with a demand by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the federal cabinet has given its nod to a proposed amendment in the Civil Servants Act 1973 that will bind government officials (BPS 17 to 22) to share details of their assets along with those owned by their family members. The cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday approved all decisions of its legislative committee that also included the proposed legislation to the civil services law. According to a source, under the proposed amendments in Section 15 of the Civil Servants Act 1973, government servants will have to provide details of their and their family member’s assets owned in other countries. Similarly, government officials will have to declare the assets they own in other parts of the world.