ISLAMABAD: The National Account­ability Bureau (NAB) has asked the Pakistan International Airlines, the National Database and Registration Authority and Immigration / Passport Department to join its awareness campaign against corruption.

A NAB spokesman said on Thursday that the bureau’s chairman had written to heads of PIA, Nadra and the passport department seeking their cooperation in the campaign.

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He said the NAB chief had urged the PIA chairman to ensure announcement of the slogan ‘Say No To Corruption’ in all domestic and international flights of the national flag carrier.

Nadra and the passport department had also been asked to issue computerised national identity cards and passports inscribed with the same slogan, he said.

The Pakistan Cricket Board, Pakistan Hockey Federation, Islamabad Electric Supply Company, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and local and foreign mobile phone companies have already joined the NAB campaign.

The spokesman said after the World Cup, the Pakistani team would play a match during which cricketers would doff the uniform with the slogan ‘Say No To Corruption’.

“Cricket stars will also record their messages against corruption and it will be televised on all TV channels,” he said.

He said provincial governments had agreed to incorporate chapters on demerits of corruption in curriculums.

NAB has established about 4,000 character-building societies comprising university students who spread awareness about corruption in their institutions and visit different government departments for the purpose.

The societies also arrange seminars and painting and speech contests with different themes against corruption.

The spokesman said the NAB would involve civil society, NGOs, cable operators, mobile phone companies in the campaign.

He said owners of cinema houses had been requested to run anti-corruption slogans before the start of movies. “Cinema houses across the country will show a one-minute film on corruption.”

He said the Pakistan Post had issued a stamp with the slogan ‘Say No To Corruption’ on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day on Dec 9.

The spokesman said NAB had received encouraging response from people after its slogan was broadcast by all private and state-run TV channels, Radio Pakistan, cable TV networks and cinema houses.

The bureau, he said, had signed a memorandum of understanding with Higher Education Commission to help create awareness against ill-effects of corruption in society.

Published in Dawn, February 6th, 2015

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