Letter to secretary: NADRA chief trashes Minister’s allegations
Defends charges against holding press briefings, foreign travel, education, pay.
NADRA chief trashes Minister’s allegations. PHOTO: ZAFAR ASLAM
ISLAMABAD:
National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) Chairman Tariq Malik in a letter to the Federal Interior Secretary rejected allegations levelled against him by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar.
Malik said the issue of his sacking was being heard in the Islamabad High Court, but the interior minister chose to level “baseless allegations” at a press conference.
He wrote that all the press briefings and statements issued as Nadra chairman were cleared by spokesman of interior ministry and senior joint secretary which can be verified by attached documents.
Regarding Nisar’s remarks about his education, Tariq Malik said his qualifications meet the requirements laid down in the Nadra Ordinance. He refuted interior minister’s claims that the technical certificates and executive management programme can be acquired on payment of admission fee.
Certificates of Management Programme of Stanford University, and Management and Profession Development Programme of Harvard University cannot be acquired on mere payment of admission fee, Malik said.
Foreign trips
Malik said all of his foreign trips as chairman of Nadra were misreported by adding both exit and entry.
He said all his foreign trips as Nadra chairman were cleared by competent authority and helped in generating business for the authority that translated into over $17.6 million profit.
Excess pay
He said increments and bonuses in past five years were commensurate with any head of a commercial organisation. Malik said in one instance, excess amount was credited to his account in May 2013 that was recovered in June 2013.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 28th, 2013.
National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) Chairman Tariq Malik in a letter to the Federal Interior Secretary rejected allegations levelled against him by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar.
Malik said the issue of his sacking was being heard in the Islamabad High Court, but the interior minister chose to level “baseless allegations” at a press conference.
He wrote that all the press briefings and statements issued as Nadra chairman were cleared by spokesman of interior ministry and senior joint secretary which can be verified by attached documents.
Regarding Nisar’s remarks about his education, Tariq Malik said his qualifications meet the requirements laid down in the Nadra Ordinance. He refuted interior minister’s claims that the technical certificates and executive management programme can be acquired on payment of admission fee.
Certificates of Management Programme of Stanford University, and Management and Profession Development Programme of Harvard University cannot be acquired on mere payment of admission fee, Malik said.
Foreign trips
Malik said all of his foreign trips as chairman of Nadra were misreported by adding both exit and entry.
He said all his foreign trips as Nadra chairman were cleared by competent authority and helped in generating business for the authority that translated into over $17.6 million profit.
Excess pay
He said increments and bonuses in past five years were commensurate with any head of a commercial organisation. Malik said in one instance, excess amount was credited to his account in May 2013 that was recovered in June 2013.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 28th, 2013.