ISLAMABAD, June 30: The establishment division has closed down the Chief Executive’s Inspection Commission which functioned as the Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission prior to the military takeover on October 12, 1999.

The commission was set up to check corruption among high government functionaries and key institutions, where other investigation agencies could not have worked properly. However, the present government felt that it did not serve its purpose and remained a useless body.

Some six officers of the commission who served in BPS-20 including Fazal-i-Nabi, Mohammad Ali Afridi, Maula Bakhsh, Firdos Alam, Mohammad Sajjad Pirzada and Adnan Mehmood have been made OSD and asked to report to the establishment division.

There were some 120 employees serving in the erstwhile commission, most of whom have been sent to the surplus pool of the Establishment division, while some 20 low-ranking employees have been posted to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

Official sources informed that top government functionaries had found that the commission, instead of checking corruption at higher level, had been influencing most of inquiries against different government departments and officials.

The sources said that the commission had not been referred any worthwhile matter of wrongdoing in any government institution since the NAB was founded by the present government and that it was performing no public service at all, except causing a burden on the public exchequer.