A KP based taxpayer of Pakistan through lawyer Waheed Shahzad Butt has approached the prime minister and urged that disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against officer working in Government of Pakistan as Member in ATIR Islamabad.
Due to long silence on the part of PM Office, petition has been moved in PHC against prime minister, SA to PM on Law, secretary law, SA to PM on Revenue, FBR chairman, ATIR chairman and Member ATIR, wherein hearing has been fixed before the Division Bench of PHC for January 31, 2019.
When contacted, Waheed Shahzad Butt told this correspondent that accountability law should be applicable across the board without any fear and favour. Strict action should be taken by the competent authority (Prime Minister) against corrupt, inefficient and incompetent public servants so that their punishment might serve as a warning for those who might try to do illegal activities in the future.
Petitioner stated that ATIR is the final fact finding forum in the hierarchy of taxation laws, therefore, it is bound to discharge its functions diligently. The facts in the instant case unambiguously proves that it is a unique case of novel nature, which is nothing but a classic example of bureaucratic incompetence, inefficiency and corrupt practices, wherein one of senior official is involved in severe mal-administration of justice with the innocent taxpayer solely for some hidden motives. Taxpayer citizens of Pakistan honestly and sincerely believe that office of PM is committed to eradicate corruption across the Country by using all its resources. People of Pakistan must be provided justice by all organs of State and everybody has to work honestly, fairly and justly for purpose of building of National Character. Let para wise comments from respondents No 1,2,3,5 and 7 be called for, so as to reach this Court within a fortnight.