LAHORE, July 9: The Punjab government has outsourced audit of local governments to a firm that Ishaq Dar – the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader – owns, alleged Amina Ulfat of the PML-Q while addressing a press conference here on Wednesday.

She said one could imagine the kind of outcome that a “politically-motivated” audit by a politicised firm could ensure. The “rigged” outcome would be used to gag nazims and damage local government setups, she said.

District governments were getting even foreign aid in certain cases and by maligning these democratically-elected institutions the PML-N government was hardly doing a national service, she said.

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