PAC assails National Telecommunication Corporation for unauthorised expenditures

The Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday declared that the National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) had violated the Constitution by failing to deposit its surplus profits into the Federal Consolidated Fund and by incurring unauthorised expenditures worth billions of rupees. Members of the committee also criticised the corporation for providing poor services and operating parallel administrative systems that undermined official procedures. “Being a strategic organisation does not give NTC the licence to disregard rules, no matter what hybrid system is introduced in the country,” remarked MNA Naveed Qamar. Lawmakers expressed further frustration upon learning that the NTC had not prepared its financial statements for three consecutive years, from 2021–22 to 2023–24.