PAC for abolishing toll waiver for VIPs

PAC Chairman says toll to be collected from all officers or staff in private vehicles

ISLAMABAD:

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has recommended abolishing the toll tax exemption for VIPs on motorways and highways.

PAC Chairman Noor Alam Khan directed that only officials of the Pakistan army and police travelling in uniform should be exempted and toll tax should be collected from all officers or staff in private vehicles.

At the PAC meeting, members came up with a barrage of complaints against the motorways police.

The PAC chairman said that the motorway inspector-general should tell why the motorway was closed from one side on Tuesday. The committee chairman directed to do away with the VVIP culture on motorways and highways. “No one is above the law. If someone travels on the motorway on the way back, the whole motorway should not be blocked,” He said without naming former prime minister Imran Khan for whose motorcade, one side of the motorway had been blocked.

The committee expressed displeasure over the absence of the FWO director-general from the meeting and deferred the agenda item related to the FWO.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 1^st, 2023.