Over 600 million dollars siphoned away because of corruption and incompetence in just one year! Surprisingly this was during Musharrafs time when there wasn’t any politician in power.
The NEWS
** Army audit reports tabled in NA**
Five audit reports of Pakistan Army containing details of “financial and administrative irregularities to tune of Rs 40 billion” in defence budget in 2001-2002, were tabled in National Assembly here Monday.
*The Auditor General of Pakistan in his five reports has identified many "common lapses and negligence" on the part of Army, such as "prevalent practice of violation of rules, procedures, regulations, weak internal financial control over spending."
According to the AGP, these irregularities cover only the accounts of defence services, controllers military accounts, special audit report of GE (Army services), special audit of DW&CE (Air and DW&CE(Army) and cantonment boards.
Many other audit reports of the federal ministries were also tabled in the House but their financial impact is less than that of the audit containing the details of irregularities in the military.*
Let's give the Auditor General of Pakistan some credit for uncovering and publishing this info. The press should now follow up and make sure that the story doesn't just die.