The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly will initiate a five-day meeting here from Tuesday to look into the audit reports of the Ministry of Defence and the Central Board of Revenue (CBR) for fiscal year 2000-01. It is for the first time that the current PAC will take into account the 'objectionable' audit paras of defence ministry and the CBR after it came into existence almost a year and a half ago.
Also, the media, both electronic and print, will be allowed to cover the proceedings of the meeting for the first time. Earlier, the PAC was set to meet from March 24-29, but the meeting was rescheduled owing to the ongoing National Assembly session prorogued on Thursday last.
The committee would also have a briefing from the Secretary Railways on a deal of locomotive purchase from China.
The meeting would review the AGP report about the deal struck some three years back when Lieutenant General Javed Ashraf Qazi (Retd) was holding the railways minister portfolio, a source in PAC told Business Recorder here.
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