ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatisation has convened a meeting to discuss and investigate the National Bank of Pakistan’s (NBP) claim of 600,000 ghost pensioners, which has been rejected by the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP).
According to a statement issued by the office of Pakistan People’s Party Senator Saleem Mandviwalla, the parliamentary committee’s chairman.
The committee’s meeting on September 3 will be attended by officials from federal, provincial and other departments dealing with pension matters, as well as officials from the Accountant General Pakistan Revenues, the Controller General of Accounts, the State Bank of Pakistan and the Ministry of Finance.
In order to conduct a thorough investigation, the Senate body shall have a briefing on the pension structure in the country, the number of pensioners in the past 15 years, their departments and the monthly pension being drawn.
