In this week a meeting was held at PM House regarding 3G Auction whispering of
doubtful appointments are question mark in the whole 3G auction process, recently divisive appointment of chairman PTA and taking away of the CEO of Universal Service Fund (USF) are emerging new scandals in the time of 3G auction process.
Appointment of new CEO of USF is the son of a close confidante of the top-most rulers and the appointment of member law in the Ministry of Information Technology.
The authority of the appointment of Chairman PTA Farooq Awan and the removal of CEO USF Ashar Siddiqui are already under inspection of the superior judiciary in Supreme Court.
Government is expecting around 1-2$ billion money to be obtained from the 3G auction may fo to the USF whose current present CEO officr is Dr. Basit Sheikh, who is the son of Riaz Ahmad Shaikh the man removed from the position of additional DG FIA and convicted by the Supreme Court in the NRO case. Dr. Basit is also a consultant of Ministry of IT.
Currently there is a new appointment of Kamran Ali, ex-DG Law PTA, as member law in the IT Ministry. He was also given the additional charge of the chairman of the National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC).
Here is very important to note that Chairman PTA Farooq Awan, Advisor-cum-CEO USF Dr. Basit Shaikh and Member Law Ministry of IT Kamran Ali wer the key players in the finalization of processes for the auction of 3G Spectrum.
Two of high officials already denied obeying any unlawful orders from top government officials in light of new appointment regarding 3G auction.
