ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) lawmaker Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday slammed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for reluctance on giving the Public Accounts Committee chairmanship to the opposition.
She slammed the government while addressing the National Assembly and said, “The government can’t make tall claims about accountability while refusing the opposition to head the committee, which, among other tasks, is authorised to examine Auditor General’s reports for ministries, divisions, corporations, etc.”
The former foreign minister also stated that the government has hiked up gas and electricity prices but has claimed that it won’t affect the poor.
Following that Khar asked in the Assembly, “Why doesn’t Finance Minister Asad Umar, who used to criticise tax hikes, did not decrease taxes now?”
Prior to that, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) threatened to withdraw all its members from other committees if it failed to gain chairmanship.
On September 25, a session of the PML-N had decided to name party President Shehbaz Sharif as its candidate for chairman PAC. PTI, meanwhile, has not been in the favour of someone from the opposition holding the chairmanship.
