Overview
- The UN’s 2025 theme, “Uniting with Youth Against Corruption: Shaping Tomorrow’s Integrity,” aligns with Pakistan’s demographics, with roughly 64% of citizens under 30.
- The Whistleblower Protection and Vigilance Commission Bill 2025 would create an independent national body to ensure anonymity, deter retaliation, and handle disclosures more effectively.
- Existing frameworks remain weak, with limited safeguards under the 2017 federal law and a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa system that never fully operated due to a missing vigilance commission.
- Analysts call for structural youth inclusion through advisory councils in ministries, governance reform teams, and innovation labs focused on transparency.
- Proposals highlight AI-assisted audits, blockchain-based contracting, real-time monitoring of public spending, and stronger private-sector compliance across the 78% of the workforce outside government.