RECORDER REPORT

ISLAMABAD: Senator Saeed Ghani of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Thursday moved a privilege motion against the Finance Division for allegedly misleading the house by giving a wrong reply to a question asked by him.

Ghani said that the Finance Division misled the house by giving a wrong reply to a question submitted by him about the inquiry conducted by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) into the privatisation of government entities from 1990 to date.

He said that the Finance Division came with a reply in November last year that the FIA had conducted the inquiry against 14, while NAB carried out probe into the five government entities which had been privatised.

Deputy Chairman Senate Sabir Ali Baloch referred the privilege motion to the concerned committee of the house.