Dear Ms. Jill Drilon,

Thanks for sending the drafttermsofreferencesfor the Chashma inspection panel forthe requesters' comments. Before we decide to send our comments, we want to know whether our comments will be posted on ADB website or not. As you know since we filed our claim we have been demanding information disclosure and transparency. Unfortunately, our experience in this regard is very bitter and disappointing. Almost all important project documents have not yet been disclosed.

Moreover, we would also like to make it very clear in the beggining that we don't agree with the suggested inspection scope as determined by the Board Inspection Committee (BIC). Rather, we believe that the inspection panel should have freedom to determine the scope of policy compliance itself. Any effort to make pre-determined and pre-defined scope of the inspection will be counter productive to the inspection process.Similarly, we believe and think it appropriate that the requesters should have free and unregulated access to the members of the inspection panel. We have seen enough manipulative regulation of the inspection process such as the establishment of the Grievance Redress and Settlement Committee (GRSC). We believe and consider it apprpriate to demand that the establishment and performance of the GRSC should be part of the inspection process. This is especially important in the context of corruption and other charges that are made by the GRSC consultant, Mr. Abdul Wahab,
who was selected as local consultant by ADB Management and then the contract with him was termineted in August, 2003. We believe that the decision of the BIC to support the establishment was the GRSC was not only counter productive but also also against the interest of local communities.

A few weeks a go I sent an email in which I have asked you to send me the email addresses of the memebers of the inspection panel but have not yet recieved any response from you. I would again like to emphasize that the requesters should have free access to the members of the inspection panel.

Please let me know whether our comments will be posted on the ADB website or not, so that we can decided about our comments. I would also here like to emphasize that thecomments from ADB Management should also be posted so that the process should be transparent.

Regards,

Mushtaq Gadi