India ranked 'less corrupt' than Pakistan in Corruption Perceptions Index 2013

India has been reportedly ranked lower in corruption than neighbouring Pakistan in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2013.

The Index scores 177 countries and territories on a scale from 0 -highly corrupt to 100-very clean based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be.

India has been ranked 94, while Pakistan, improving on its last year's status by 12 places has been scored 127 on the 2013 index.

The index indicated that two-thirds of countries score below 50 with countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia at the bottom of the list, while the toppers having least corruption remain Denmark, New Zealand, Finland and Sweden.

Transparency International's Chairman Huguette Labelle said that the legal loopholes and lack of political will in government facilitate both domestic and cross-border corruption, and call for intensified efforts to combat the impunity of the corrupt.