Zia Imran should continue as managing director of Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) till the appointment of a replacement, says a press release issued by the Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) on Friday.
P@SHA expressed serious concerns over the charges the National Assembly Standing Committee for IT levelled on Imran while saying that the entire scenario was an attempt to reinstate an unqualified past employee of PSEB.
It further said in 2007, an interim acting managing director, without the requisite qualification, was retained at PSEB for more than 27 months severely damaging the cause of the IT industry.
“We are concerned that the committee so far has not given Zia Imran the opportunity to explain his position although ample time has been spent on leveling charges against him,” P@SHA said in the statement.
P@SHA – a representative body of software manufacturers – said that charges levelled against him are from an anonymous complainant, which should not be entertained as per government rules.
In its hearing on January 12, according to the press release, the committee members talked about injustice done to Talib Baloch – a PSEB employee dismissed on disciplinary grounds and due to inadequate qualification for the position of Director Finance, according to P@SHA.
Baloch’s appointment was against the rules, the statement said, adding the Auditor General of Pakistan took serious note of the same by printing this in the Audit Report on the Accounts of Public Sector Enterprises for 2010-11.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 21st, 2012.
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Someone please explain why Pakistan needs a Software Export Board? Other countries that are actually noted for exporting software don't seem to have these Boards?