Chairman of Senate Standing Committee on Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistic and Privatization Senator Saleem H Mandviwala on Thursday said that the committee would recommend the Law Committee to restructure rules and regulations for the registration of NGOs to discourage the illegal activities of non-government organisations (NGOs) in the country.
Briefing the committee, Secretary Economic Affairs Division Tariq Bajwa said that currently 26 International NGOs were registered in Pakistan.
Bajwa said that provinces were responsible for the registration of the INGOs.
Senator Mushahidullah Khan said that there were thousands of un-registered INGOs working in the country and most of them were involved in illegal activities.
The committee also considered the Resolution moved by Senator Sassui Palijo on February 29, recommending the government to ensure representation of Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA in the Board of Functional Members and Governing Council of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics in order to hold an equitable and transparent population census-2016.
Sassui Palijo said that during the recruitment of board of functional members, no rules and regulations were considered.
Chief Statistician Asif Bajwa was of the view that there was no violation of rules and regulations while recruiting the members.
The committee also discussed the procedure of evolving inflation and growth rates.
Saleem Mandviwala asked that why there was difference between the growth rate figures of PBS and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB).
Asif Bajwa said the PBS collects data very carefully and there was a minimum margin of errors in the data.