ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), headed by PPP leader Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah, seems reluctant to take up special audit reports related to the objections in multi-billion rupees projects of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) launched during the previous PPP government.

On Tuesday, the scrutiny of these special audit reports was part of the PAC agenda. However, the committee deferred deliberations on the reports and examined other ‘minor’ issues.

The audit reports were for the year 2010 and 2011 about the Zero Point Interchange (ZPI), Faisal Avenue Interchange and toll facilities, which were laid before the PAC in May last year.

Currently, the PAC is examining the audit paras raised by the audit office on the CDA’s spending in 2012 and 2013. These are mostly related to minor financial irregularities.

It may be mentioned that during 2010-11, the affairs of the CDA were allegedly managed by a local businessman who was close to the leadership of the PPP.

A senior audit official told Dawn that “since these ‘irregularities’ had been committed during the PPP government and some influential people were behind them, the PAC seemed reluctant to take them up.” He claimed that since May 2014, the reports had been tabled before the PAC for seven times but the committee deferred their scrutiny.

A CDA official said though during the PPP government the affairs of the civic agency were managed by the businessman, there was no evidence against him as he allegedly carried out the wrongdoings through the CDA officials.