The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly will open a three-day meeting here on Tuesday to examine accounts and audit reports of the interior ministry for 2000-01.
PAC Chairman MNA Malik Allah Yar Khan will preside over the meeting to look into how much corruption and financial irregularities were committed by whom in the Capital Development Authority (CDA). CDA Chairman Kamran Lashari will lead the team of his financial aides to explain how things went wrong in the past and what measures are now being taken to minimise the chances of embezzlement in the future.
The CDA is a civic Organization responsible for the development of the federal capital. It works under the interior ministry and considered to be one of the most corrupt bodies of the country.
BACKLOG: Ironically, the PAC of the current National Assembly is still examining five-year-old audit reports with only a little over a month remaining in the parliament's tenure. It, in ideal circumstances, should have been probing latest accounts of various ministries and divisions so the persons who cause losses to the national exchequer could be punished.
But with half a decade backlog, it happens in most of cases that those who plundered public money either die or retired by the time the parliamentary corruption watchdog takes up matters. This will probably be either the last but one meeting of the current PAC. It means the coming committee will have to take the burden of examining audit reports from 2000 onward.
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