{"id":57886,"date":"2018-03-26T12:52:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=57886"},"modified":"2018-03-26T12:52:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:52:37","slug":"rs5-2-billion-fraud-detected-in-rawalpindi-islamabad-metro-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=57886","title":{"rendered":"Rs5.2 billion fraud detected in Rawalpindi-Islamabad metro project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad March 26 (TNS):<\/strong> The audit has detected corruption and irregularities of Rs5.2 billion in the Islamabad-Rawalpindi metro bus project.<\/p>\n<p>The audit has found irregularities\/corruption in the procurement and contract management, construction and work and overpayment totaling into Rs5.2 billion while the total cost incurred on the project was Rs40.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57888\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1280x720-TbM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1280x720-TbM.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1280x720-TbM-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1280x720-TbM-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1280x720-TbM-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1280x720-TbM-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1280x720-TbM-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1280x720-TbM-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the audit report was released, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan took to Twitter and took the Punjab government to task over corruption in almost every project.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31113\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/imran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/imran.jpg 700w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/imran-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/imran-696x398.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPunjab mired in mega corruption:\u201d,\u00a0 Imran said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">And so much for Shahbaz Sharif&#8217;s claim that there will not be even one rupee corruption in Punjab! Punjab mired in mega corruption whichever govt project is audited. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SePUWRmQL3\">https:\/\/t.co\/SePUWRmQL3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\/status\/978139146060431360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so much for Shahbaz Sharif&#8217;s claim that there will not be even one rupee corruption in Punjab! Punjab mired in mega corruption whichever government project is audited,\u201d he said in another tweet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45460\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shahbaz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shahbaz.jpg 700w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shahbaz-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shahbaz-696x398.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMega corruption and mismanagement pointed out by the audit in the Rawalpindi Islamabad Metro. Most cases forcibly suppressed by special departmental committee despite objections from the audit. So much for &#8220;good governance&#8221; in Punjab,\u201d he said in another tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad March 26 (TNS): The audit has detected corruption and irregularities of Rs5.2 billion in the Islamabad-Rawalpindi metro bus project. The audit has found irregularities\/corruption in the procurement and contract management, construction and work and overpayment totaling into Rs5.2 billion while the total cost incurred on the project was Rs40.8 billion. After the audit report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57889,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57886\/revisions\/57889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}