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[url="http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=239487"]Chairman NA body on Railways to spill the beans[/url]



ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Railways Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said he would soon reveal massive corruption in Pakistan Railways and how a top political personality intervened to pay a failed Chinese company hundreds of millions of rupees in advance, despite strong opposition by experts and the NA Committee.



The committee chairman appealed to the Supreme Court to intervene and take immediate notice of corruption of billions for purchasing extremely substandard locomotives and then for making a huge payment to the same company for another 75 engines.



Sardar Ayaz Sadiq did not name the top political personality. A 15 per cent down payment was also ordered and paid. The Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour had also opposed the deal but was over ruled.



While talking to The News Sardar Ayaz said that he was ready to become a party in the proceedings of the apex court and would establish with documentary evidence how the national exchequer was plundered to pay more than Rs8 billion for purchasing low standard engines from the Chinese company.



He said he would establish as to how some bureaucrats and politicians took commissions in the deal and later wasted more money when these engines were imported and failed to perform. “Huge amounts were again spent from the people money to maintain these engines. I will appraise the court how these substandard engines were completely scrapped while still they were covered under the warranty provided by the Chinese company.”



Sadiq said: “I will tell the court how concerned Railway authorities and the Chinese company which sold these engines were not ready to repair the same despite the fact that repair and replacement during the warranty period was their contractual obligation.”



Sardar Ayaz disclosed that he was in the know that because of certain benefits some members of the present management of Railways were hell bent on acquiring 75 more locomotives from the same company [color="#FF0000"]while half of the previously supplied 69 locomotives purchased in 2001 were lying in junkyards of Pakistan Railways as they could not be repaired.[/color]



“It is a nightmare for the nation,” Ayaz said, adding when his standing committee worked for more than one and an half years and repeatedly asked the government not to purchase these locomotives from a failed company, certain vested interests intervened and forced the top bureaucracy and top political leadership to fall in line obviously using the same methods, which are followed in corrupt systems.



Ayaz said that Railways minister and other top government officials promised in one of the last meetings of his committee not to go for this dirty deal without following certain rules and regulations and fulfilling mandatory prerequisites and modalities.



He said he would spill the beans in the next a few days and would bring before the nation the entire record of the huge corruption, which was carried out to take commissions and benefits while the [color="#FF0000"]poor passengers were left at the mercy of low standard engines, which had crippled the well-built and strong Railway tracks of Pakistan[/color]. “This is an irreversible loss,” he said.



Ayaz was of the view that the apex court should take notice of how 15 per cent advance money was paid to the same Chinese company on the orders of a top political personality.



He said the Supreme Court should also ask government functionaries if Pakistan Railways cancelled this contract when the advance money of 15 per cent would come back in the national exchequer. It should also be called in question as to how the money paid for those engines, which were scrapped during their warranty period would be brought back.



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