The National Assembly’s (NA) Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesdaysummoned former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice (r) Saqib Nisar.
Committee Chairman MNA Noor Alam Khan remarked that the ex-CJP was acontroversial figure. “Rs14 billion were spent on advertisements on the‘Dam Fund’, while only Rs9 billion could be collected,” he said.
MNA Birjees Tahir said the PAC link wanted toknow as to why the money collected for the Fund had not been spent for theavowed purpose. “We are not threatening judges after all,” he remarked.
The PAC link summoned the Supreme Court (SC)registrar for briefing on the Fund.
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PAC link chairman said that whenevergovernment officials were summoned, they went to the court against thesummons link.
