PESHAWAR, July 12: The provincial ad hoc public accounts committee will meet here on Monday to examine and discuss the appropriation accounts for the year 1997-98, according to official sources.

The seven-member committee, headed by Mir Naeemullah, will hold its meetings at the provincial assembly secretariat’s committee room to scrutinise the accounts of 22 departments.

Other members of the committee are: Karim Khan Khattak, Nasrullah Jan, Mohammad Afzal Khan, Syed Nasir Hussain, Mohib-ur-Rehman and Nasiruddin Azam Khan.

The ad hoc committee is going to start its work when the government has announced the schedule for the next general elections in the country.

An official of the assembly secretariat remarked, “This entire exercise will bear no fruit, because it is a bela-ted effort to examine the accounts and net the corrupt persons.”

Earlier, the NWFP governor had constituted the ad hoc accounts committee under the chairmanship of former chief justice of the Peshawar High Court Justice Abdul Karim Khan Kundi.

However, the committee was suspended when central information secretary Haji Mohammad Adil challenged legal and constitutional status of the committee in the high court.

The committee will discuss the financial affairs of different departments, including the provincial assembly, environment, food, education, agriculture, livestock and cooperation, health, home and tribal affairs, finance, law, parliamentary affairs and human rights, industries, commerce, irrigation and power, information and public relations, local government, election and rural development, communication and works, planning and development, establishment, administration, governor secretariat, auqaf, zakat, ushr, social welfare and women development. The committee meetings will continue till July 30.