UN team on missing persons came with govt’s permission, PAC told
ISLAMABAD - The acting Secretary Foreign Affairs Alamgir Babar has said that the UN mission on missing persons has come with the government’s permission but it has no authority to probe.Giving statement before Public Accounts Committee, which met at the Parliament House here on Tuesday, the Foreign Office official said that the tour of UN mission is a routine matter as they visit different countries of the world. The visiting mission would submit its report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs too at the conclusion of its visit. He said that the all stakeholders including Ministry of Interior have been taken on board regarding the visit. The members of Public Accounts Committee termed the visit of UN team as intervention in national affairs. They demanded the govt to prevent it and ask it to go to Indian Held Kashmir for probing the matter of missing persons. The Committee showed its resentment over the visit by stating that it is the part of broad based conspiracy against the country. PAC reviewed the matter of allotment of plots and instructed government to allot one plot to the deserving government servants on retirement especially to the Auditor General of Pakistan, Secretary National Assembly and Secretary Senate. The audit authorities told the Committee that the Ministry of Housing and Works has put ban on the allotment of plot to government servants on retirement. The Chairman PAC Nadeem Afzal Gondal issued directives to Secretary Housing Kamran Lashari to make recoveries from pay and pension of those government servants who did not clear their dues. Kamran Lashari told the Committee that Ministry has no powers to allot plots to anybody. The Committee may write to Establishment Secretary to look into the matter of Secretary National Assembly and Secretary Senate.aa