Islamabad: The Public Accounts Committee has ordered an audit of the budget, seeking details of salaries and allowances of the judges of the higher judiciary.
According to the report, a meeting was held under the chairmanship of Noor Alam Khan, the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament. Audit objections for the year 2021-22 related to the Revenue Division were reviewed in the meeting.
The chairman committee said that the committee had directed to provide a list of officers who have been posted in a district or province for more than three years. Has the list of these officers reached you?
The audit officials said that the list did not come to us, Chairman PAC said that FBR should ask every employee how much income tax they pay, how did they build the house, how did they buy the plaza?
Chairman FBR said that we have not received the data from CDA yet. On which Chairman PAC said that if someone is buying a shop worth three to four crores, you should check their records.
The committee took notice of the blocking of roads in Islamabad and expressed its anger. Noor Alam Khan said that Srinagar highway was blocked on Sunday when he was coming from Peshawar, you cannot block the road, you did not block the roads. Do it, we have written a letter to the Home Secretary that this illegal thing should not be done, the VIP culture is not being eradicated.
Noor Alam Khan said that the audit will not only be about money, everything will be audited, the auditors can do sampling as they wish, how and where is the money of the people of the government being spent? There should be a performance audit in every institution, who got how many plots. Yes, the details should be told to the committee, the committee directed the audit authorities to audit the Supreme Court.
Member Customs FBR said that there is no fence in Makkah Chagai, smuggling takes place from there, buses are also being seized, containers are also being seized. Nizhat Pathan said that the buses of pilgrims coming from Iran are carrying illegal goods, I don’t know how customs clear them and take them out.
Public Accounts Committee Chairman Noor Alam Khan said that we work for Pakistan, smuggling takes place through green channel, collectors are involved, check it.
Chairman FBR said that our presence at the borders is only at notified check posts, Bajis Tahir said that dollars are crossing the border of Afghanistan through trucks, Noor Alam Khan said that you don’t have a team at Torkham border? I don’t understand why we are behind only one institution.
Member Customs FBR clarified that the institution has seized currency equivalent to 4.5 million dollars in a year.
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