ISLAMABAD: A report detailing irregularities in issuing medicines and medical allowances to lawmakers was not tabled at a meeting of a parliamentary panel yesterday in order to “hide corruption evidence”, an official who had worked on the report said on Friday.
Minister for Capital Administration and Development Division (CAAD) Usman Ibrahim and CAAD Secretary Hamid Ali Khan presented the audit report (2009-2013) before the committee.
National Assembly Standing Committee on Cabinet Division Chairman Rana Hayat Khan “hushed up” the matter and did not table the report, the official said.
He said that the report looked into corruption in the medical quota reserved for lawmakers. Massive irregularities by some members of the National Assembly, the personal staff, the parliament’s staff, doctors and paramedic staff were highlighted in the report.
Last month, the committee announced that it would discuss a five-year report on medicines issued to MNAs on doctors’ prescriptions.
Several lawmakers at the meeting said that they suspected something was up. Some lawmakers, parliamentary staff members and some CAAD officials said that the report had not been presented because it named several MNAs who were involved in claiming money by submitting fake receipts.
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