Pakistan Prepares 15-Point Strategy for IMF Talks

Islamabad – (Web Desk) – Ahead of the upcoming review by the International Monetary Fund, the Government of Pakistan has prepared a 15-point action plan based on its Governance and Diagnostic Assessment. One of the key steps includes identifying the 10 federal departments most at risk of corruption and those posing serious economic threats.

The plan also focuses on clearing the growing backlog of economic and commercial cases. In the first year, authorities will create and publish a system to measure the performance of courts and judges. By the second year, the government aims to release its first detailed report evaluating administrative tribunals and special courts handling economic disputes.

According to the 240-page reform document, the government will introduce a comprehensive framework to strengthen judicial performance and governance. This will include promoting Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) systems and using modern analytical tools to improve case management and reduce delays.

In addition, a joint working group will review the Anti-Money Laundering law to remove legal confusion. The review will clarify whether a prior conviction for a related crime is necessary before prosecuting money laundering cases, ensuring stronger enforcement and clearer accountability.

The Joint Working Group (JWG) will also review AMLA, 2010 to identify other amendments, e.g. in the areas of definitional clarity, clarification of processes and procedure, and investigative powers, etc, needed to strengthen ML investigations and prosecutions under AMLA, 2010. The amendments in AMLA 2010 will be placed before parliament and subsequently notified and disseminated for implementation by June 2027.

The NAB will draft a national risk assessment on corruption, and to achieve multiagency inputs, bring it to the National Anti-Corruption Task Force (chaired by AMLA and including NAB, FIA, AGP, ACEs, SECP, FBR, CGA, PBS, and others coopted by the task force as technical contributors).

Pakistan has finalized a 15-point action plan to address governance weaknesses and corruption risks, including the identification of 10 high-risk federal agencies, ahead of the

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The task force will be established under the umbrella of AML/CFT Authority, as the overarching coordinating body for all “competent authorities”, (as per Section 6 (1) of National AML/CFT Authority in Pakistan Act 2023), eg NAB, FIA and all anticorruption establishments ACEs and other relevant agencies, to finalise a centralised Corruption Risk Assessment Framework for assessing the corruption vulnerabilities in various organisations.

Based on the Corruption Risk Assessment Framework, the National Anti-Corruption Task Force will identify the top 10 high-risk federal agencies with corruption vulnerabilities and macro-critical exposures.

The National Anti-Corruption Task Force will develop a risk reduction action plan with clear KPIs and defined roles for each ministry and agency to address corruption risks in the 10 highest-risk agencies. The plan will include systemic actions applicable to all agencies and agency-specific measures, and will align its risk assessment methodology with Pakistan’s National Risk Assessment (NRA) for ML/TF.

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The Financial Monitoring Unit (FMU) will devise and issue corruption-specific reporting guidelines, including red flags for enhancing the reporting quality of the corruption-related Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs). The government will bring the Pakistan Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (PVARA) under the reporting framework.