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ISLAMABAD - Expressing concern over the slow speed with which corruption cases were being disposed of by accountability courts, the monitoring and implementation committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday to take the help of the attorney general to speed up the process.
The committee passed the orders when NAB Additional Director Abdul Hafeez informed it that NAB had moved a reference of Rs 1.7 billion against

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The NAB official told the committee that NAB was unable to take any action against the culprits because the case was pending since 2002 in the accountability court in Karachi. The committee's convener Yasmeen Rehman told Defence Production Ministry Secretary Israr Ghumman to make arrangements for a quicker trial of the case in the accountability court, but the secretary said the ministry had no legal right. "As NAB moved the case in 2002, its prosecutor

ISLAMABAD - The special committee of the Public Accounts Committee on Monday directed senior officials of the Federal Board of Revenue to lodge criminal FIRs against corrupt officials and present a report before the committee within 15 days.
The committee, which met with Riaz Hussain Pirzada in the chair, reviewed audit objections of the ministries of Defence, Defence Production, Science and Technology and the FBR.
While settling an audit objection of the Ministry of

ISLAMABAD - Expressing serious concerns over non-production of record by Frontier Works Organization (FWO) before federal audit authorities, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)'s special team on Thursday said all the public sector entities must be audited under the government's rules of business.
Zahid Hamid chaired the committee meeting. The audit accounts of the Ministry of Defence and Defence Productions for the year 1992-93 and 2001-02 were reviewed. The auditor general of

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday issued notices to the chairmen of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and National Assembly's Public Account Committee (PAC) besides Secretary Finance on a petition filed by a former president of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Bank.
Tahir Abbasi through his lawyer pleaded before a division bench, headed by Chief Justice IHC Iqbal Hameed-ur-Rehman, that the NAB had registered a reference against him in 2002, charging him of

LAHORE - Public Accounts Committee-II (PAC II) Chairman in Punjab Assembly Qadir Gilani is likely to submit his resignation next week after President Asif Ali Zardari expressed dissatisfaction over his performance, Pakistan Today learnt on Thursday.
PPP sources said that poor performance in the Punjab Assembly, coupled with alleged involvement of Abdul Qadir Gilani in the Haj scam, has forced President Zardari to ask for the PM's son resignation.
They said that the expected

ISLAMABAD - The special committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Friday criticised the government for reversing the decision to allow the import of three to five year old used vehicles in the country.
The special committee meeting, chaired by Khawaja Muhammad Asif, called the decision anti-consumers, adding that automobile manufacturers in the country were selling low quality vehicles at exorbitant prices. Zafar Mehmood, secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, told the

ISLAMABAD - Secretary Defence Lt General (retd) Syed Athar Ali Khan on Thursday failed to tell the status of DHA City Lahore to the Public Accounts Committee.
During PAC meeting, when Riaz Fitana asked the secretary defence to clear the position of DHA City Lahore, secretary defence said, "Either DHA City Lahore is the part of Defence Housing Authority or it is a private entity and if it has been launched by a private company then why is the name 'DHA' being used?"
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ISLAMABAD - The Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday observed that if the Federal Board of Revenue removed lacunae in the existing tax collection system, there would be no need to impose Reformed General Sales Tax. The PAC members made this observation when they found that a test check conducted by the auditor general of Pakistan had revealed that the FBR had failed to recover adjudged government dues worth Rs 9.4 billion.
Citing the audit report 2008-09 pertaining to the

ISLAMABAD - The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday directed the Finance Ministry to present the record of Rs 30 million spent by the Military Intelligence in Dera Bugti for transformers' installation.
According to the Auditor General of Pakistan's Audit Report 2008-09, the Finance Division gave Water and Power Development Authority's Rs 30 million to the Military Intelligence as a reimbursement of the amount already spent on the installation of transformers and provision

ISLAMABAD - Expressing displeasure over the sluggish attitude of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), the Public Accounts Committee on Monday decided to write a letter to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for an early evacuation of CDA's lands under illegal occupation.
The PAC, which met with Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan in the chair, expressed dissatisfaction over the role of CDA in getting its land evacuated from illegal occupants and decided to send recommendations to the prime

ISLAMABAD - FATA Secretariat Additional Chief Secretary Habibullah Khan on Saturday said a major revision of the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) had been completed and a final announcement in this regard had to be made by the president of Pakistan.
Talking to reporters after attending the meeting of the special committee of the Public Accounts Committee, he said the federal government was focusing on developing and equipping the Levies Force to replace the Khasadar Force.