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The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) sought the General Headquarters’ (GHQ) probe report into the National Logistics Cell (NLC) scam by June 30, and also...

The Public Accounts Committee was informed on Thursday that the office of the Auditor General of Pakistan was not being given access to financial...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday asked the government to collect revenue from NATO containers supplying oil to Afghanistan by taxing them.The PAC...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday directed the defence secretary to ask army chief General Ashfaq Kayani to present the GHQ’s inquiry report...

Public Accounts Committee (PAC-1), while terming the performance of Punjab Health Foundation (PHF) as unsatisfactory, said the foundation had not initiated a single project...

Expressing dissatisfaction over the Ministry of Labor and Manpower’s Worker Welfare Fund, the Public Accounts Committee has asked for a detailed report within eight...

A probe conducted by the enquiry committee headed by FBR member (Taxpayer Audit) reveals that the fraud of removal of 265 containers from Qasim...

ISLAMABAD - The Public Accounts Committee was informed on Wednesday that Karachi Port Trust (KPT) sold its precious land at the throwaway price of 10 paisa per square yard to the cooperative housing society in 1980s. The committee, which met here with Yasmeen Rehman in the chair to review audit reports of the ministry of ports and shipping, was informed by the audit authorities that KPT in 1980s sold 400 acres of its precious land in Karachi at the throwaway price of 10 paisa per

KARACHI - Expressing displeasure over the Population Department secretary's statement that show-cause notices were issued to 13 officers suspected of embezzling Rs 4.587 million from the department funds, the Sindh Assembly's Public Accounts Committee on Tuesday recommended that the provincial government should at least suspend these officers. The financial irregularities were noticed during the audit of Population Department accounts for the year 2007-8.
It was observed that

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) central leader Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada on Sunday said that instead of establishing proposed national accountability commission, the incumbent Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly should be converted into Public Accounts and Accountability Committee to uproot the menace of corruption from the country.
"As the parliament is supreme, the creation of the Public Accounts and Accountability Committee (PAAC) would not only

ISLAMABAD - The Defence Ministry assured the Special Committee of the Public Account Committee (PAC) on Monday that corrupt military officials involved in the National Logistic Cell (NLC) scandal would be punished. The Special Committee III, which met with Riaz Hussain Peerzada in the chair, was told that all those involved in the NLC scam would be punished per law. An Defence Ministry official told the committee that the army chief was serious in taking action against corrupt

LAHORE - The officers of Punjab Health Department admitted in front of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC-1) that all drug inspectors were corrupt, while the committee expressed its dissatisfaction over the performance of Punjab Health Foundation (PHF) and Pharmacy Council Punjab (PCP). The PAC-1 meeting under the chairmanship of Chaudhary Zaheer-ud-Din reviewed the audit paras of concerning PHF and PCP on Monday.
The members of the committee including Maj (r) Rana Abdul Rehman,

ISLAMABAD - The government, the 18th Amendment Implementation Commission and the Inter-Provincial Coordination Ministry have so far failed to devise a mechanism to settle previous years' audit objections of the devolved ministries and their attached departments.
Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) fear that legal and technical hitches in the process may cause a loss of billions to the national exchequer unless the mechanism is devised in time. Like many other

ISLAMABAD - The monitoring and implementation committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday directed the government to stop allocating money to secret funds of various ministries and Pakistani missions abroad.
The committee, which met here with Yasmeen Rehman in the chair expressed annoyance over the secret funds of various government departments and foreign missions abroad. The audit officials told the committee that a British parliament member, George Galloway,

KARACHI - The Sindh Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has sought explanation from the provincial government on the buildings being used by the Pakistan Rangers Sindh, besides unpaid utility bills.
With PAC Chairman Jam Tamachi Unnar in chair, a meeting was held to discuss the formal audit reports of the Law, Industries, Commerce and Labour departments. Unnar has written to the Sindh government, seeking explanation on the buildings being used by Rangers, and the utility bills that

ISLAMABAD - The monitoring and implementation committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to revisit terms and rent of its land leased out to nurseries. The committee, chaired by Yasmeen Rehman, was told each nursery owner had been allotted one acre on yearly rent of Rs 11,000 only. The committee expressed reservations over the value of the rent. Yasmeen said the rent was less than even Rs 1,000 per month for an acre of

ISLAMABAD - The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was informed on Saturday that the inquiry conducted by the General Headquarters (GHQ) into mega financial scam of the National Logistic Cell (NLC) would be provided to it soon. Opposition leader Nisar Ali Khan, who chaired the meeting, praised the Ministry of Defence and the GHQ for their cooperation with the PAC in probing the NLC scam. "I also received a message from a very senior official in the GHQ that the inquiry into the financial