Malpractices in AGPR cause Rs175bn annual loss to exchequer: minister
(WorldNews Pakistan)

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz on Saturday acknowledged that mismanagement and malpractices in office of the Accountant General Pakistan Revenue (AGPR) were causing a loss of up to Rs175 billion per annum to the exchequer. “The estimated purchases made by the federal government were around Rs1 trillion every year but Rs150bn to Rs175bn was paid at above the market rates in these purchases,” he revealed at a press conference addressed also by Prime Minister`s Inspection Commission chairman Ahmed Yar Hiraj. The information minister reiterated that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government was introducing a number of reforms in all national...