A fresh audit of the Pakistan Post Department has uncovered financial irregularities exceeding Rs63 billion during the 2024-25 fiscal year, raising concerns over financial management and internal controls within the postal sector. Read More: ‘Pakistan’s Got Talent’ announces judges for Season 1 According to Audit Report 2025-26, the irregularities were identified in accounts managed under the […]
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Audit uncovers massive financial irregularities across federal institutions
The Auditor General of Pakistan has highlighted widespread financial irregularities, weak oversight and governance failures across several federal institutions in its 2025-26 audit of civil accounts. The detailed 399-page report identifies billions of rupees in questionable expenditures, unrecovered public funds and administrative lapses, raising serious concerns about financial accountability and transparency within government departments. Among […]
Audit uncovers irregular payments in Benazir Income Support Programme
An audit report of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) for the 2024-25 fiscal year has revealed financial irregularities exceeding Rs25 billion, highlighting weaknesses in beneficiary profiling and system controls that allegedly allowed payments to ineligible individuals. According to the audit report for 2025-26, more than 600,000 questionable cases were identified due to deficiencies in […]
Pakistan’s Auditor General flags major budget irregularities
Pakistan’s Auditor General has identified significant financial irregularities in the federal government’s accounts for the 2024-25 fiscal year, raising concerns about budget management, parliamentary oversight, and the effectiveness of internal financial controls. According to audit reports covering federal accounts for the 2024-25 fiscal year, a total of Rs3.454 trillion in supplementary grants was obtained by […]
Major housing scam uncovered in Islamabad
Investigators probing the Islamabad Cooperative Housing Society (ICHS) scandal have uncovered what is being described as one of Pakistan’s largest alleged housing scam cases, involving thousands of plot files issued without sufficient land availability. Read More: NAB restores trust, returns Rs 1.2bn to victims after two decades According to officials familiar with the inquiry, the […]
KP health human capital project hit by audit irregularities
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Health Department’s Human Capital Investment Project (HCIP), launched with World Bank support to improve basic healthcare services, has come under serious scrutiny after an audit revealed widespread financial and administrative irregularities. Read More: KP approves policy for integration of pharma services in health The Rs24 billion project, approved by the World Bank Board […]
PAC orders probe into 25irregularity cases from Usman Buzdar era
LAHORE – The Punjab Public Accounts Committee (PAC-III) has ordered a comprehensive investigation into 25 cases of alleged financial irregularities committed during the tenure of former Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar (2018–2022). According to official sources, the directive followed findings from the 2021–22 audit report, which uncovered serious violations in District Health Authorities, including illegal […]
Gwadar water crisis deepens amid Rs5.9 billion financial irregularities
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Balochistan Assembly has uncovered financial irregularities exceeding Rs5.9 billion in the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department and major infrastructure projects in Gwadar. During a recent PAC meeting chaired by Asghar Ali Tareen, serious lapses were revealed in procurement practices, project delays, and unaccounted expenditures spanning 2018 to 2021. […]