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Summary PAC meeting has been told that 5.5 billion minutes illegal telephone calls are made annually.
A meeting of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was held under the chair of Yasmeen Rehman.Hamid Yar Haraaj alleged that the interior ministry was involved in the business of illegal telephone exchanges.Secretary IT told the committee that the people involved in running illegal telephone exchanges possessed modern technology due to which the calls could not be jammed completely.He further told that the proposal was submitted to the government that the sentence for illegal exchange holders should be increased up to 7 years with fine of Rs 5 million.
