Military involvement as the
backer of a caretaker government in 2007 and 2008
Bangladesh in 2007 and 2008 was widely viewed as
relatively benign, and the country returned to
elected civilian rule in 2009. Neither country has
been particularly democratic, transparent, or free
from corruption. In fact, in its 2009 Corruption Perceptions
Index, Transparency International has
given an equally poor ranking—a tie at number
139 out of 180 countries ranked—to Pakistan and