The Punjab Higher Education Department on Friday ordered the creation of two committees to probe the death of a 20-year-old university student whose body was found in a hostel in Rawalpindi's Government Post-Graduate College for Girls on Friday...
The source claimed that Fatima had died to the negligence of the college administration...
ISLAMABAD: A sub-committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has directed the managing director of Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) to register FIRs against the declared holders of fake degrees...
The PAC met here on Monday under the chairmanship of Sardar Aashiq Hussain Gopang...
ISLAMABAD: A member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has said that the audit report on the release of Rs480 billion to power producers should be placed before the committee...
Shafqat Mehmood in a letter to PAC Chairman Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah said that Rs480bn were given to independent power producers (IPPs) by the federal government soon after it came to power in June 2013... ...
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly was informed on Tuesday that the National Logistics Cell (NLC) had not got its accounts audited since 2009...
NLC Director General Maj Gen Mushtaq Ahmed Faisal told the PAC that the organisation was in the process of ‘upgrading’ the accounting system and it might take a few months to update its internal auditing mechanism...
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly seems to be helpless in conducting an open scrutiny of financial affairs of the defence ministry as its sub-committee has decided to debate the audit objections to the ministry’s accounts in camera...
A PAC member said the committee could not reject the ministry’s request because it had been made ‘in the name of national interest’...
ISLAMABAD: Despite opposition from a PML-N lawmaker, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday hastily settled a para regarding an unauthorised weapons deal between Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP)...
The committee had taken up NHMP’s audit report for the year 2013-2014, and the fact that the ISI was in the business of selling arms surprised several members of the PAC...
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday grilled Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) officials on irregularities in the construction of the new Islamabad International Airport and five grounded aircraft belonging to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)...
PAC Chairman Khursheed Shah asked how PIA was obtaining aircraft on lease while five of its existing planes remained grounded...
ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission on Wednesday informed the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the federal government had allocated Rs866 billion for 1,018 development schemes of different ministries...
The Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms while giving a presentation to the PAC stated that in addition to the uplift schemes, there were 1,022 special projects being undertaken by the federal government, of them 582 were...
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was surprised to note on Tuesday that the national flag carrier is obtaining new planes while five of its aircraft were recently grounded...
PAC chairman Syed Khursheed Shah asked how the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was leasing aircraft while its existing planes were grounded...
During a session of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) held on Wednesday, an audit report provided by the Interior Ministry revealed that Rs695mn spent during the 2014 Islamabad sit-in by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) had not been recorded in the government's cash book...
The PAC formed a subcommittee comprising Alvi and Ghulam Mustafa Shah and demanded a report on the matter within 15 days... ...
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday sought a complete record of payments in excess of Rs102 million made by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources to the Sindh and Punjab Rangers for security of Sui northern and southern gas installations...
A PAC meeting chaired by PPP leader Khursheed Shah was reviewing a 2016 audit of the ministry...
ISLAMABAD: Commander Royal Jordanian Air Force Major General Mansour Salim Al-Jobour visited Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) Kamra and Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Academy Risalpur on Tuesday...
On his arrival at PAC Kamra, he was received by Air Marshal Javaid Ahmed, Chairman Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Board, Kamra...
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday ordered blacklisting of a Karachi-based firm for its poor performance in up-gradation of the Multan International Airport (MIA)...
Take a look: PM Nawaz inaugurates international terminal at Multan airportWhen the PAC chairman Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah took up the audit para regarding up-gradation of MIA, Mohammad Ali Gardezi, Secretary of the Aviation Division, briefed him...
PAC chairman Khurshid Shah had on May 13 stopped transfer of properties to Etisalat and sought a presentation from the Privatisation Commission on the agreement...
“Aren’t these properties being transferred to Etisalat?” the PAC chairman asked...
Of the seven PAC members, only chairman Sardar Saleem Ahmad Jalbani of the Pakistan Peoples Party and Nand Kumar of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional turned up to attend the meeting, which was scheduled for 11am...
Later addressing a press conference in his chamber, Mr Kumar said the PAC was an important forum to ensure accountability of public money and end to corruption in government departments, but it was being run as a wing...