So it has been found that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) gave an in-camera briefing to a panel from the Senate about giving contract of internet trafficking monitoring to a company with allegedly indirect links to an Israeli secret agency. This meeting between the Senate and the PTA was held on Wednesday. Moreover after the briefing ended, the Senate’s Standing Committee for Cabinet Secretariat called upon officials who were representing intelligence agencies to take their views on the matter. Later talking to media, the committee’s chairman, Senator Talha Mehmood, said he was not satisfied with the PTA chairman’s briefing, in addition to that he also added that this matter will once again be the topic of discussion in a meeting scheduled for 26th September. Moreover, the committee wishes to know the facts which have to be brought to light, adding that payments of millions of rupees have already been made to the concerned company.
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He stated that “We have to decide a course of action. Details of people responsible for the agreement have been summoned. The company with which the PTA made an agreement is indirectly linked to Israel’s secret agency. This company is facing serious allegations,”. Moreover the committee at that moment also talked about the provincial quota in hiring at ministries and departments. Senator Sikander Mandro said more than 29,000 posts of Sindh and 17,000 posts of Balochistan are currently vacant. He added that it was unclear as to what might be the reason for this and that their officials have failed to identify these reasons.
In addition to that the establishment division officials said the statistics they received from ministries show that over 103,589 posts are vacant and some ministries and departments have so far not given any data. They asked the panel to give them 15 days’ time so that ministries might send reminders to the relevant people in charge of such activities. They said the ministries were not questioned over non-implementation of the quota. The chairman said the government departments are overstaffed. He asked as to what was the need of hiring lift operators and gardeners and called such hiring unnecessary.
