Govt to go for forensic audit of Tarin's audios.

ISLAMABAD: The federal government Wednesday decided to conduct a forensic audit of former finance minister and PTI leader Shaukat Tarin's leaked conversation with the finance ministers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab over Pakistan's deal with the IMF. Speaking to the media in Islamabad, Law Minister Senator Azam Nazir Tarar said all the members took an oath while going to the parliament that they will protect the country's interest. "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Finance Minister Taimur Jhagra by writing a letter to the IMF may have violated his oath," he added. The law minister said Tarin was not expected to put politics before the state. "This act falls under the category of rebellion against the state." While the PTI grew defended its stance and tamped it down as a genuine issue, the government ministers accused the PTI of putting the country's interests in peril and sought to bring the "conspiracy" before the National Security Committee (NSC). PTI leaders responding to Tarin's telephonic conversation declared it correct, while the former finance minister said that he did not betray the country. Jhagra, while addressing a press conference alongside Asad Umar, had also acknowledged the authenticity of a letter penned to the IMF three days earlier by the K-P government whereby the international money lender was informed that the province would not be able to meet the agreed-upon budget surplus. Pinning the province's inability to meet the surplus target on the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) merger with K-P province and related administrative concerns, the minister said, "I own the letter" and "I wrote it myself" and requested the federal government to resolve the budgetary...