Tag: Irregularities

Irregularities and illegal tax adjustments in the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has eaten away over Rs18 billion during the current fiscal year. Official...

The Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Bank has not only sustained a huge loss of around Rs1.5 billion as it failed to recover loans...

The federal audit authorities have found financial irregularities, losses and misappropriation of funds worth Rs 12 billion in Capital Development Authority (CDA). The audit...

In the midst of a great financial crunch, when a number of poverty- and unemployment-stricken Pakistanis are committing suicide and the government has set...

Two opposition MPs on Tuesday filed to question the Kuwaiti premier in parliament over allegations of squandering public funds and financial and administrative irregularities....

Under the cover of the presidential ordinance of 2009 on the reinstatement of sacked employees, the PPP government secretly and illegally appointed 242 persons...

LAHORE - Trampling Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's top manifesto to ensure transparency in all development works, the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) high-ups have started development works at cricket grounds without opening tenders costing Rs 2.8 million. The LDA defied the rules despite the fact that the CM's inspection team is at the final stage of preparing a fact-finding report to nip the mafia involved in violation of tenders. "The show of disobedience indicates that

KARACHI - PPP Census Monitoring Committee

KARACHI - Setting aside the concerns by industrialists over massive irregularities in audit reports, the Sindh Industrial Trading Estates (SITE) Limited is continuously approving the erroneous financial reports from a firm.
Reliable sources told Pakistan Today that despite the SITE General Body private members terming the accountancy firm's performance as unsatisfactory; the SITE senior management was insisting to carry out auditing from the same firm to cover up its financial

ISLAMABAD - A special audit has identified irregularities worth Rs 51,504,835 by the ex-managing committee in connivance with the developer in the development expenditure and purchase of land of the Senate (Sectt) Employees Cooperative Housing Society Islamabad. According to the audit report, a copy of which is available with Pakistan Today, the development contractor M/s Raja Ishtiaq Associates was found involved in the financial irregularities worth of Rs 50,732,217. According to

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been asked to investigate irregularities in the affairs of National Institute of Electronic Employees Cooperative Housing Society (NIEECHS) as its management has sold 33 kanals of land worth Rs 250 million without the consent of members and allottees of the society.
A source told Pakistan Today that the employees of National Institute of Electronics (NIE) had initiated a housing society NIEECHS with the approval of

KARACHI - The corruption that prevails in the Pakistan Railways (PR) could be gauged from the fact that 1,786 cases of irregularities, both in the ticketing and freight activities, have been detected in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas in only 10 days of last month.
According to sources, almost Rs 0.12 million were recovered during a fresh campaign of PR's divisional administration in Karachi, - an eye-opener for the railway high-ups.
The divisional administration also recovered a

ISLAMABAD: Army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani on Tuesday ordered a high-level inquiry into alleged irregularities in the National Logistic Cell (NLC).
"A serving corps commander has been nominated to head the inquiry along with two major generals as members. Appropriate action will be taken on the completion of the inquiry, per relevant army rules and regulations," an ISPR statement said.
In a recently held meeting, the Public Accounts Committee pointed out massive embezzlement

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has taken serious notice of below par arrangements made by the Directorate of Haj for Pakistani pilgrims in Saudi Arabia and ordered an immediate inquiry into the matter.
"The prime minister has also recalled the haj director general to Pakistan," an official statement issued on Saturday said. Gilani said the shifting of responsibility and blame game was unacceptable and ordered that the Foreign Ministry should coordinate all

ISLAMABAD: The PML-N's Punjab government blatantly violated rules and regulations to accommodate its favourites and party workers by doling out tractors under the Green Tractor Scheme, incurring a loss of Rs 2 billion resultantly.
According to the Auditor General of Pakistan Revenue (AGPR) report on the accounts of the Punjab government for the year 2009-10, the Agriculture Department initiated the project during financial year 2008-9 to provide tractors to the farming community