ISLAMABAD, June 29: Public Accounts Committee Chairman Malik Allah Yar Khan on Friday said that some vested interests were politicising the issue of Tuesday night’s mysterious fire in the parliament house.

“All records of the PAC of the National Assembly are intact but some vested interests have been disseminating false news about their elimination in the fire,” he said.

He dismissed as baseless news about the gutting of precious PAC records in the fire the causes of which were yet to be determined and said the committee would keep on functioning as normal.

He said the fire had erupted on the fourth floor of the parliament building where the Services Branch was operating. The records of the Services Branch were damaged in the fire. However, he said the room near the Services Branch on the same floor, from where the PAC only issued notices to various departments, remained safe.

“PAC officials are performing their routine duties in the same room,” the PAC chairman said. The PAC records were being preserved on the ground floor of the parliament building while the fire had erupted on the fourth floor, he said.