The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has started an audit of the valuable gifts that former Prime Minister Imran Khan (PM) received in the last four years.
Sources told ProPakistani that the AGP office has asked the Federal Audit Directorate to look into the gifts that the former PM and his cabinet received while travelling abroad.
The Public Accounts Committee told the AGP to start this audit, which it did (PAC). It’s important to remember that Noor Alam Khan, the head of the PAC, told AGP to do an audit of Toshakhana on August 18, 2022.
Chairman PAC asked the members what they thought about looking into the details of gifts given and received from Toshakhana over the last four years.
At the meeting, everyone who was there agreed with this and told the AGP to do an audit of the Toshakhana over the past four years and report back to the PAC.
The PAC also told the secretary cabinet division not to replace Toshakana’s original gifts with cheap ones in the future.
In recent days, there has been a lot of talk about the Toshakhana case. PM Shehbaz Sharif recently put together a group to work on a new Toshakhana policy.
The rules say that a gift from a leader of another country given to a government official must be put in the treasury.
The gifts that aren’t kept are either put in the treasury or sold at an auction, with the money from the sale going to the public exchequer.
Those who want to keep the gift can do so by paying a certain percentage of its value. At the time the former PM kept the gifts, that percentage was 20%.
Before December 2018, the rules said that you had to pay 50% of the value of these gifts to keep them.
