The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday issued a white paper on the Sindh government’s performance based the auditor general of Pakistan’s (AGP) report for the period between 2017-18.
In the said report, several financial irregularities worth trillions of rupees in multiple government departments of both federal and provincial governments in the period between 2017-18 were pointed out.
In this regard, the ruling party’s MPAs in the Sindh Assembly, Khurram Sher Zaman, Halim Adil Sheikh, Dr Seema Zia and others, held a press conference on Wednesday to brief the media about the findings of the white paper that highlighted financial irregularities of the provincial government.
“Financial irregularities of up to Rs11 billion in Sindh’s health department and Rs11.5bn in the finance department have clearly been pointed out whereas, irregularities of billions of rupees were also revealed in other departments including the Works and Services Department in the AGP’s report,” said Khurram Sher Zaman.
“Bhutto’s city [is facing] an outbreak of AIDS, because of [the family’s] theft,” he alleged.
Zaman further alleged that Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla “opened numerous alcohol bars” and said that the PPP MPA will have to answer for the corruption of billions of rupees, adding that more than Rs35bn were missing from the Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department.
It was announced that the white paper will be submitted to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the Anti-Corruption Unit as “evidence of corruption”.
Zaman complained that AGP’s reports are never highlighted and added that PTI has urged the provincial assembly’s speaker to hold a debate on it as per the rules. “Every MPA is prepared. We will tell the House how the public’s money was looted,” he said.
Furthermore, he called for a review of the 18th Amendment. “Who will answer for the misuse of funds given by the federal government?” he asked.
“The government does not provide financial records to the AGP despite multiple reminders,” he claimed.
