PTI MNA Junaid Akbar Khan was elected president of the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly on Friday, the NA Secretariat confirmed in a press release.
The PAC is among the most powerful parliamentary bodies, with the authority to summon virtually any individual or registration of government departments in financial matters. The post has remained vacant since the general elections of February 2024.
Previously, the PTI had nominated Fire Brand Sher Afzal Marwat as a candidate for the presidency of the PAC, but then replaced his name with the current SHEIKH Waqas Akram spokesman.
On December 20, the president of Na, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, gave the government and the opposition a week to nominate the candidates to fill the position of the President of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
According to the press release of the NA Secretariat issued today, Akbar was elected president “unanimously” of the PAC.
“Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, the opposition leader Omar Ayub Khan, Senator Shibli Faraz and others proposed the name of Junaid Akbar Khan,” said the statement, and added that he received the support of MNA, including Riaz Fatiana, Malik Aamir Dogar, Wazhiya Qamar and Sardar Muhammad Yousaf Zaman.
Thanks the committee members for their support, Akbar said: “I will advance with the members of this committee.”
During the meeting itself, Dr. Chaudhry said: “The Government made the decision to grant the presidency of the PAC to the opposition. They asked for five names and sent three cards. “
He added that the main whip sent the names of Omar Ayub, Junaid Akbar, Aamir Dogar, Khawaja Shiraz and Adil Bazai.
Meanwhile, Chief Whip Amir Dogar attributed the delay in the president’s elections to the government. “In the past, we don’t ask the opposition for any panel and we said [Prime Minister] Shehbaz Sharif that he can nominate whoever wants, ”he said.
“This government has created a tradition of asking for a panel.”
In response, Chaudhry said that Shehbaz was elected president of PAC because he was the opposition leader at that time.
