Reports published in the media suggest appointment on contract of a retired bureaucrat as head of NEPRA, under whose tenure as Chairman FBR the highest tax evasion in Pakistan was recorded. The man also had an alleged role in halting investigations into the 70,000 missing containers scam.
As if this was not enough, the ministry for water and power is being handed over to the minister for defence, under whose watch, PIA’s losses escalated by over 200 percent, CAA came under the scrutiny of EU, PIA was grossly over-staffed and jobs were sold to the highest bidder and who has just concluded the signing of a controversial deal for induction of 5 more B777s in violation of PPRA rules, while the airlines Trans-Atlantic and European operations have been slashed.
IRFAN BUTT
Karachi
