Despite receiving advance entrance fees in the millions per case, the Islamabad Club reportedly delayed the membership of over 1000 government officials (current or retired) as well as wealthy private individuals, including parliamentarians.
The management of the Islamabad Club reportedly received advance entrance fees totaling Rs. 83.7 million for club membership during the fiscal year 2020–21, according to the Auditor General of Pakistan Audit Report 2022–23.
From July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021, applicants paid advance entrance fees, but membership cases were not resolved and finalised, according to the audit.
Although membership had not yet been finalised, this advance fee was in addition to earlier entrance fees totaling Rs. 310.988 million that were paid during the fiscal years 2002–03 to 2019–20.
The audit also found that the management had not established guidelines for processing membership applications within a set number of calendar days after receiving a complete application and payment of half of the entrance fee.
According to the audit, the pending resolution of membership cases is causing the retention of funds paid in by applicants to be reversed, and the non-finalisation of cases raises concerns about the transparency of membership allocation.
The management retorted that candidates primarily from the years 2003–16 were interviewed. However, the balloting committee has deferred pending applications because of file status, which are incomplete, didn’t show up for interviews, and were incomplete.
Also being interviewed or scheduled for future interviews are additional candidates.
The paragraph was covered during the DAC meeting on December 14, 2022. The Islamabad Club was instructed by the DAC
