Illegal allotment: TI highlights land scam in Karachi
TI Pakistan asks NAB to take notice of illegal allotment of piece of land in Karachi worth approximately Rs400b
Transparency International (TI) Pakistan has asked National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to take notice of the illegal allotment of a piece of land in Karachi worth approximately Rs400 billion.
In a letter dated September 16, the TI has told the NAB Sindh’s director general that Sindh government illegally allotted 600 acres of mangroves land – between DHA Creek and Korangi Road – to the Sindh chief minister’s former secretary.
It said the illegal allottee – who claimed the land was allotted to him as compensation under ‘illegal ground of hardship case’ – was now trying to sell Defence Housing Authority ‘for reclamation and development as housing society’.
“…The process of allotment if Karachi by a mechanism of compensation as hardship cases by Sindh chief minister is illegal and amounts to circumventing the law,” the whistleblower said.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 18th, 2014.