Mps summon Ministers on exemption of ISAF fuels

Members of the lower house of the parliament have summoned Foreign affairs, Trade and Finance Ministers to provide more information on exemption of ISAF and Afghan security forces while entering in Afghanistan through two ports of Hairatan and Aqina on Wednesday session.

Ministers weren’t questioned due to lack of information and documents, and left the session.

A delegation with 9 members were assigned to review the processing of exemption of fuel taxation on Afghan security forces and ISAF from Hairatan and Aqina ports,the delegation have found more than 2000 pages of documents which are indicating corruption in those ports.

The delegation member Urfanullah Urfan who is the lower house secretary has said, “there is exemption of taxation on Afghan security forces, ISAF fuels while entering in to the country, during the process there is huge corruption is taken place,hundreds of millions of dollars are robbed, there is a private company named Jeo Kim which is being led by a Pakistani national is robbing huge amount of money.”

The documents which are accessed weren’t reviewed and decision hasn’t made yet on the aspect.

Speaker of the house AbdulRauf Ibrahimi said,” due to lack of information and poor readiness we dismiss the officials and delay the summoning process for the future.”

A number of the law makers have criticized the poor performances of the speaker and other related to the case,saying this is against internal rules and law.

Mp Kamal Nasir Osuli said,” this is against the law and principle of the house.”

It’s not fair wasting the Ministers time for doing nothing, such kind of issue should be finalized within the committee Kabul Mp Abdul Qadir zazia said.

Unfortunately the heading committee in the house has taken hasty decision, it’s totally wasting of time Ghulam Faroq Majroh herat representative urged.

Earlier Mps have claimed that Ministers are being summoned due to their personal interests.

Reported by Abdul Aziz Karimi