The National Assembly’s Secretariat has notified the name of opposition leader Khursheed Shah as member of the Public Accounts Committee.
He is to be elected Chairman of the all powerful National Assembly body, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at a meeting of the members of the committee in the coming few days.
Sources said a consensus was developed between the government and opposition over his name for the slot after which his named was included in the place of PPP lawmaker Ghulam Mustafa Shah as PAC member.
PAC is a powerful body which examines the spending of the national exchequer to ensure transparency and accountability.