Pakistan celebrates its first Integrity Idol
In a corrupt country, the public vote for the most upstanding bureaucrat By: This article was originally published by Apolitical. There is no glitter or pop music, but Integrity Idol aims to do much more than choose a hit new boyband. The international competition puts on TV shows to find the most upstanding officials in countries with endemic corruption – Nepal, Pakistan, Liberia and Afghanistan among them – and hold them up as role models to encourage the rest. Run by the NGO Accountability Lab, it began in Nepal (read Apolitical’s interview with the first ever idol here) and has [...]
