LAHORE - Pakistan Audit Department (PAD) Action Committee President Tahir Bokhari and Tahir Nazir on Thursday said in a joint statement that the demand of PAD employees for 100 percent audit allowance was quite reasonable and genuine.
They said the Pakistan Audit Department was making recovery of over 60 percent revenue of the income tax, sales tax, custom duties and Federal Excise duty and Depositing the same into government treasury. They recalled that former Public Accounts Committee chairman Chuadhry Nisar Ali Khan, during a PAC meeting, was so happy over the excellent performance of Pakistan Audit Department and Rs 40 billion recovery that he termed its employees heroes of the country. During the same meeting, he promised to make efforts for the grant of 100 percent allowance for them. He also gave a suggestion that all the government organisations and authorities like Pakistan Railways, PIA, Pakistan Steel Mill, Radio Pakistan and others which are not being audited by Pakistan Audit Department should also come under its jurisdiction for the purposes of audit. They contended that Pakistan Railways, PIA and Pakistan Steel Mill have reached the brink of destruction. They said the employees of Pakistan Army, Federal Board of Revenue, Health Department, Motorway, Income Tax, FIA, federal police, ASF, Pakistan Rangers, Civil Aviation Authority and other departments of the federal government are drawing 100 percent allowance. They said that their demand for 100 percent audit allowance be accepted forthwith.
The employees of Pakistan Audit Department have been on strike since June 7 to press for their demand of 100 percent audit allowance.