Shehbaz forms PAC’s 8 sub-committees

Sub-panels reviewing PML-N projects are headed by members from other parties


Khalid Mehmood January 03, 2019
Shehbaz Sharif chairs PAC meeting. PHOTO:EXPRESS

ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Shehbaz Sharif has formed eight sub-committees to evaluate audit reports of the projects started by the previous governments’ of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

Notifications of all the PAC sub-committees have been issued. According to a pact between the government and the opposition, PAC will not audit the projects started by the last PML-N government.

The PAC sub-committees headed by members from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will examine such projects. The first committee is headed by Noor Alam and comprises Khawaja Asif, Shahida Akhtar, Naveed Qamar, Iqbal Ahmed, Ahmed Ali and Shibli Faraz. The sub-committee will review the audit reports of 2016-17 and the audit objections of 2017-18.

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Headed by Naveed Qamar, the second sub-committee will review audits of 2017-16 while the third sub-committee, headed by Fakhar Imam, will review audit reports of 2014-15.

The fourth sub-committee, headed by Shahida Akhtar, will review audit reports of 2013-14. Headed by Ayaz Sadiq, the fifth sub-committee will review audit objections of 2011-12.

The sixth sub-committee which is headed by Rana Tanveer will review the objections sent by central committee. The seventh sub-committee to be headed by Sherry Rehman will review audit reports of 2015-16. All political parties have been given representation in the committees.

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