Pakistan has agreed to reform its asset declaration framework in response to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) criticism of gaps in the country’s anti-corruption mechanisms, according to a report by Dawn.

The IMF’s Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment questioned the effectiveness of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), calling it a “political compromise” and urging greater transparency to curb high-level corruption.

As part of the short-term action plan, Pakistan will begin publishing asset declarations of senior federal civil servants from 2026. The government and the IMF are also considering the creation of a centralized authority to collect, digitize, and publish such disclosures, along with introducing risk-based verification to strengthen integrity across insti

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