ISLAMABAD Jan 10, 2024: The Missing Persons Commission (MPC) is costing hundreds of millions to tax payers without delivering anything good to the nation. MPC members are probably the only beneficiaries of it as they are pocketing millions of rupees per month in terms of salaries and other perks.
Two of four MPC members including its chairman retired judge and NAB’s most controversial ex-chief , Javed Iqbal, are enjoying hefty salaries and other perks since 2011. Mohammad Sharif Virk (IGP) another member of MPC , is also getting salary and other benefits like TA/DA whenever a rare meeting of the commission is convened . Other two members Justice ,Zia Pervez ,a former judge of Sindh High Court (SHC) and Amanullah Khan former chief justice of Balochistan High Court (BHC) are relatively new appointees, but they will keep enjoying as members of MPC as like two over a decade old members are not given a stipulated term to serve as a member of the commission.
An official document, a copy available with NEWSMAN suggests that Javed Iqbal, ex- NAB chief and a retired judge, is getting Rs 674000 per month salary since 2011. Similarly , Mohammad Sharif Virk, a retired Inspector General of Police, is getting Rs 263, 325 as salary per month since 2011. Justice Amanullah Khan, retried chief justice of BHC is getting Rs 1.139 m as salary since December 2023. He is highly paid member of MPC. Justice Zia Pervez a retired judge of SHC is getting Rs 829, 000 as salary per month since July 2021.
The difference in the salaries suggests that MPC members are hired on pick and choose basis without applying any standard terms and conditions for appointment. It seems as MPC’s appointing authority does not take into account any specific rules while granting salary and perks package to the appointees as members.
Major question is what is the utlisation of MPC?. Another question one needs to ask from the appointing authority do the members of other commissions also get such hefty salaries on monthly basis?.
MPC’s performance is a big question mark. The recent remarks of a judge that MPC followed 52 of 2770 court orders speaks of its performance.
In the case of MPC, one can easily reach to a conclusion that the salaries and other perks which are costing millions to the nation per month is just wastage of public money paid by the tax payers of Pakistan.
Pakistan is under huge financial crisis and begging for loans from every country of the world and its spending on the commissions like MPC is nothing, but a joke with the poor of this country whose vast majority is not even having one meal in a day.