Pakistan, Feb. 26 -- It has come to light that officials and employees responsible for overbilling electricity consumers by 21 billion rupees have faced no consequences.

A meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, chaired by Junaid Akbar Khan, saw the committee head express strong discontent with Ministry of Finance officials. He demanded a list of the top 300 defaulters in the power sector.

During the session, it was revealed that nine electricity distribution companies failed to recover hundreds of billions of rupees from defaulters. An audit objection regarding the non-recovery of 877 billion rupees was also discussed.

The committee further disclosed that those involved in the 21-billion-rupee overbilling scandal...