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Unearthing Qarz Utaro Mulk Sanwaro Scam
Date:
January 26, 2016Author:
MasterShake1 Comment
A Japanese loan of
$250 million (value Rs 11 Billions at the then time), given on
27th March 1998 through Loan Agreement No.
PK-C18 between Govt. Of Pakistan and Govt. Of Japan for education and health projects under the Rs 500 billion Social Action Programme (SAP) has mysteriously disappeared and even the Musharraf government failed to trace it.
As per Loan Agreement the GOP was required to create a Counterpart Fund for the implementation of SAP projects (equivalent to the amount of the loan.) The amount of the Counterpart Fund was to be utilized by 27th March 2000.
During the audit of Federal SAP Secretariat the audit team while scrutinizing files pertaining to Loan No. PK-C18, it observed that the loan was not accounted for in the Federal Consolidated Fund Account. Neither the equivalent amount credited to the Counterpart Fund nor allocation for utilization arranged.
The scam was unearthed by
Auditor General of Pakistan (
Shabbir Ahmed Dahar DG Audit SAP) in
Nov 2000 when its auditors reached Federal SAP secretariat to conduct the audit and were told that this huge amount was never transferred to any SAP account so there was no question of an audit.
The Chief Executive Secretariat, in the light of the audit report in 2000, ordered an inquiry into the disappearance of this big sum in mid 2000 against PM Nawaz Sharif but nothing came out and then the Sharifs were flown to Saudi Arabia into exile.
The then chief of SAP one,
Qizilbash, was picked up from his office located in F-8 Markaz by Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-Law
Captain Safdar and his political secretary
Mushtaq Tahir Kheli and brought to the PM office. There he was asked to educate the prime miniter and his Finance Minister
Ishaq Dar on how this money could be diverted to the famous “
Qarz Utaro, Mulk Sunwaro” scheme launched by Sharif.
Qizilbash had explained him the way to gobble down that money. It never went into any debt repayments not into any government of State Bank Account.
An official report reveals that till date there is great confusion about the utilization of this money as even the Auditor General of Pakistan has expressed its
inability to conduct the audit of this loan saying
not a single penny has so far been allocated or released to SAP accounts since 1998 by the Finance Ministry/State Bank of Pakistan as required under the loan agreement.
View Audit Report below or click relevant pages
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An insider who was involved in the scam at the then time, on a condition of anonymity claimed that Prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his finance minister Ishaq Dar actually played a major role in blocking the transfer of this money from the SBP accounts to SAP accounts and did not allow its utilization for the purpose for which the loan was obtained.
Reportedly, Mr Dar and Nawaz Sharif had utilised this huge money in the name of “Qarz Utaro Mulk Sanwaro” (Repay debts for Country’s Prosperity) scheme. Under this scheme, billions were collected from all over the country from the emotional people soon after the massive victory of PML in the 1997 elections.
The utilization of this fund collected from the public remains a mystery till date as neither this money was used for debt retirement nor its audit was conducted as required under the law with regard to use of public funds.
Some senior officials of the finance ministry and those associated with the SAP were believed to be hand in glove with the former rulers in depriving the nation of the fruits of this loan sought for the execution of primary health and education projects.
This huge fraud surfaced when the Japan government asked Islamabad in 2001 to provide it the audit reports of the nine projects that were to be financed from this loan besides its evolutionary report as agreed to at the time of signing of this grant.
Consequently, Auditor General of Pakistan was asked to conduct the audit but it expressed its inability to do so saying
“since no fund has been allocated to SAP, the auditors can not do this job”.
According to available information, in March 1998, an agreement was signed for the Loan No PK-C between the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OCEF) and the then President of the Pakistan, Farooq Leghari.
The government of Japan provided an amount of Yen 32,032 million equivalent to $250 million on 27.3.98 in lump sum as a soft loan. At that time the total in Pak rupees came to Rs 11 billion.
The purpose of the loan was to support a program of action, objectives and policies designed to achieve structural adjustment of the banking sector adjustment loan BSAL extended by the World Bank.
The Government of Pakistan was required to deposit the equivalent in Pak rupees of amount of Japanese Yen disbursed by the OCEF in the bank account titled “Counterpart Fund Account” with the SBP.
Accordingly, a counterpart fund account was opened in the blocked account on 27.3.1998 and an amount of Rs10.92 million was deposited therein by the Government as the total amount of Rs 11 billion was not available.
According to the agreement with the Donors, at federal level three programs were to be implemented “
National Programme for Family planning and primary health care;
Expanded Program for Immunisation EPI and
Aids Control Program.
In Punjab, up-gradation of 2000 primary schools to elementary level, consolidation/ strengthening of 5000 primary and mosque schools and sewerage/ drainage treatment facilities for rural areas of Punjab were to be provided.
In Sindh Mithi, Nuakot Diplo Adjoining village water supply schemes (total 143) and in Balochistan consolidated and improvement of middle level education projects were to be executed.
Rs 4.1 billion were to be given to the provinces in 1998-99 and
Rs 6.9 billion in 1999-2000 to the provincial governments for the execution of these projects.
The record and account of expenditure financed out of the proceeds of the loan was required to be maintained as agreed under the agreement.
The audit of the record account was required to be conducted annually by AGP in accordance with appropriate auditing practices consistently applied. And certified copies of the audit report was required to be submitted to the Fund not later than nine months after the end of each financial year. The loan was to be utilized by March 27, 2000.
But the AGP disclosed the entire amount of loan and the deposit in counterpart fund account was never transferred to the federal consolidated fund account, which is violation of article 78 of the Constitution.
The AGP said the government was required to deposit Rs15 bn but only Rs10.9 million was deposited. The details of neither the deposit in the counterpart fund not the expenditure financed out of it was available, the AGP observed.
Even basic documents of projects to be financed out of this fund, approval of the competent authority and OCEF, technical section, allocation and releases of funds are not available with the federal SAP secretariat and so have not been produced before the audit.
The sad part is that the then Musharraf Government has also accepted quietly that Rs 11 billion were missing and nothing could be done about it.
Audit Report Pages
Director General Audit Report (SAP) – Page 1
Director General Audit Report (SAP) – Page 2
Director General Audit Report (SAP) – Page 3
Director General Audit Report (SAP) – Page 4
Director General Audit Report (SAP) – Page 5
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