No longer dormant?: PAC likely to start functioning next week
Inclusion process of Leader of Opposition expected within the next 48 hours.
Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah. PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD:
There were high hopes that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) would start examining the accounts of the last government, but even after another deadline ended the task.
The PAC had hit the headlines for helping recover around Rs115 billion during the last regime. The committee was supposed to start functioning in the first week of December but that did not happen. There is a likelihood that the PAC will start functioning in the next 48 hours, it has been learnt.
Sources in the National Assembly told The Express Tribune on Saturday that the committee would complete the process regarding inclusion of the Leader of the Opposition Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the next 48 hours and would formally hold its meeting afterwards.
A senior official in the PAC wing said the PPP had nominated Shah as head of the committee, but on the government’s insistence the committee could not begin its work as Shah was not member of the committee. Shah would be the second opposition leader after Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who would chair the committee.
Evasive deadlines
A senior official told The Express Tribune that the deadline given to the heads of government departments will also expire in the next 48 hours.
“All ministries, divisions and departments who have not sent compliance reports have been requested to kindly furnish para-wise and year-wise pending compliance reports to PAC wing as well as to the Auditor General Office/concerned Director Generals for Audit within seven working days,” said the third reminder by the PAC wing.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 8th, 2013.
There were high hopes that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) would start examining the accounts of the last government, but even after another deadline ended the task.
The PAC had hit the headlines for helping recover around Rs115 billion during the last regime. The committee was supposed to start functioning in the first week of December but that did not happen. There is a likelihood that the PAC will start functioning in the next 48 hours, it has been learnt.
Sources in the National Assembly told The Express Tribune on Saturday that the committee would complete the process regarding inclusion of the Leader of the Opposition Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the next 48 hours and would formally hold its meeting afterwards.
A senior official in the PAC wing said the PPP had nominated Shah as head of the committee, but on the government’s insistence the committee could not begin its work as Shah was not member of the committee. Shah would be the second opposition leader after Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who would chair the committee.
Evasive deadlines
A senior official told The Express Tribune that the deadline given to the heads of government departments will also expire in the next 48 hours.
“All ministries, divisions and departments who have not sent compliance reports have been requested to kindly furnish para-wise and year-wise pending compliance reports to PAC wing as well as to the Auditor General Office/concerned Director Generals for Audit within seven working days,” said the third reminder by the PAC wing.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 8th, 2013.