Islamabad:

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was told on Tuesday that MNA Sanaullah Mastic Hel, a PAC member, had forgiven the people responsible for removing electricity meters from his and some of his relative housing. However, the case will be raised with the Prime Minister.

PAC met on Tuesday under the presidency of MNA Junaid Akbar to review audit parases of per.

During the meeting, the committee also discussed the issue of removing electricity meters. The energy secretary said that officials responsible for this had offered an apology. He said he had informed the committee on the question, and now it was up to PAC on how it would tackle the question.

In a speech during the committee session, MasticHel said that after his queries, electricity meters were removed from his and relatives.

He claimed that unidentified persons in white vehicles disconnected the power supply and issued threats of demolition of properties belonging to his family.

During the meeting on Tuesday, the committee’s announcement came out that a piece of land that the Pakistan railways had rented to Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital in Sukkur at a speed of RS1 per year. Kvadrat Yard, had been sublet to commercial use. It turned out that a marriage hall and mobile phone towers have also been established on the country intended for welfare purposes, which resulted in a loss of RS450 million to the railways.

The railway secretary said that the ML-1 project, which is part of CPEC, is of a strategic nature. To a question about the speed of trains on ML-1, he said the upgraded design allows for a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.