Generous bonanza : One plot, two plot
Top bureaucracy, higher judiciary the only two influential cadres to get two plots.
ISLAMABAD:
Top bureaucrats have emerged as the main beneficiaries of plot allotments since the days of General Musharraf. Dozens of lucky bureaucrats even managed to get two plots of 500 square yards (sq yds) each in the pricey sectors of Islamabad – quite in the same way as 14 Supreme Court (SC) judges.
The latter category of beneficiaries received their plots in the up-market I-8, G-13 and G-14 sectors of the federal capital after framing a questionable policy tailor-made to suit them as well as their powerful collaborators in the judiciary.
According to documents available with The Express Tribune, a total of about 7,000 plots were allotted, in category one to four, to officers and officials of different grades and categories since 2002 in two sectors of Islamabad.
As many as 800 top bureaucrats, including federal secretaries and ambassadors (BPS-20 to 22), got a one kanal (600 sq yds) plot each in the G-13 and G-14 sectors of Islamabad, out of the 7,000 plots allotted since Musharraf came to power.
Former Supreme Court chief justice Irshad Hassan Khan, who had endorsed Musharraf’s coup of October 12, 1999, is among the beneficiaries. Justice Hassan was given a plot after he retired from the apex court and was made Election Commissioner of Pakistan. His secretary Kunwar Dilshad also received a one kanal plot.
Former Governor State Bank of Pakistan Muhammad Yaqoob also got a one kanal plot from General Musharraf in 2002 in Islamabad.
The list of plot allotments reveals that the top bureaucracy (BPS-22) and the higher judiciary are the only two influential classes to get two plots in Islamabad in the name of “official policy”, crafted and endorsed by the beneficiaries themselves. The rest have to give an affidavit in writing that they did not have any plot in Islamabad before applying.
The Express Tribune has already published two lists of 100 judges allotted plots in Islamabad since 1996.
A total of 172 journalists were also allotted plots in keeping with government policy in G-13 and G-14. The policy stipulated that only those journalists who did not have a house in Islamabad nor had a plot allotted to them in the past could apply.
Of the 650 journalists who applied in 2004 for G-14, only 172 could get plots after due process.
Meanwhile, as a list of 172 journalists is lying before the PAC, a new one of 35 journalists has surfaced. These journalists were also given plots in G-8 Markaz in 1996 during Benazir Bhutto’s second term.
Some of the prominent journalists allotted plots for construction of flats in G-8 Markaz were Ayaz Amir, Hamid Mir, Aroosa Alam, Ehtashamul Haq, Nusrat Javed, Ishaq Chaudhary, and Nasir Malick. Mir, Haq and Alam have already sold their flats at a premium, after paying approximately Rs800,000 to the government.
Many journalists had then applied for a second plot in G-13 and G-14. Some succeeded in getting them despite receiving a plot from the Bhutto government in 1996 as well.
For a complete list of beneficiaries from the bureaucracy and to read earlier stories on the allotment issue, click here.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 24th, 2010.
The following is the list of top BPS-20 to 22 officers who were given category one plots in Islamabad:
Top bureaucrats have emerged as the main beneficiaries of plot allotments since the days of General Musharraf. Dozens of lucky bureaucrats even managed to get two plots of 500 square yards (sq yds) each in the pricey sectors of Islamabad – quite in the same way as 14 Supreme Court (SC) judges.
The latter category of beneficiaries received their plots in the up-market I-8, G-13 and G-14 sectors of the federal capital after framing a questionable policy tailor-made to suit them as well as their powerful collaborators in the judiciary.
According to documents available with The Express Tribune, a total of about 7,000 plots were allotted, in category one to four, to officers and officials of different grades and categories since 2002 in two sectors of Islamabad.
As many as 800 top bureaucrats, including federal secretaries and ambassadors (BPS-20 to 22), got a one kanal (600 sq yds) plot each in the G-13 and G-14 sectors of Islamabad, out of the 7,000 plots allotted since Musharraf came to power.
Former Supreme Court chief justice Irshad Hassan Khan, who had endorsed Musharraf’s coup of October 12, 1999, is among the beneficiaries. Justice Hassan was given a plot after he retired from the apex court and was made Election Commissioner of Pakistan. His secretary Kunwar Dilshad also received a one kanal plot.
Former Governor State Bank of Pakistan Muhammad Yaqoob also got a one kanal plot from General Musharraf in 2002 in Islamabad.
The list of plot allotments reveals that the top bureaucracy (BPS-22) and the higher judiciary are the only two influential classes to get two plots in Islamabad in the name of “official policy”, crafted and endorsed by the beneficiaries themselves. The rest have to give an affidavit in writing that they did not have any plot in Islamabad before applying.
The Express Tribune has already published two lists of 100 judges allotted plots in Islamabad since 1996.
A total of 172 journalists were also allotted plots in keeping with government policy in G-13 and G-14. The policy stipulated that only those journalists who did not have a house in Islamabad nor had a plot allotted to them in the past could apply.
Of the 650 journalists who applied in 2004 for G-14, only 172 could get plots after due process.
Meanwhile, as a list of 172 journalists is lying before the PAC, a new one of 35 journalists has surfaced. These journalists were also given plots in G-8 Markaz in 1996 during Benazir Bhutto’s second term.
Some of the prominent journalists allotted plots for construction of flats in G-8 Markaz were Ayaz Amir, Hamid Mir, Aroosa Alam, Ehtashamul Haq, Nusrat Javed, Ishaq Chaudhary, and Nasir Malick. Mir, Haq and Alam have already sold their flats at a premium, after paying approximately Rs800,000 to the government.
Many journalists had then applied for a second plot in G-13 and G-14. Some succeeded in getting them despite receiving a plot from the Bhutto government in 1996 as well.
For a complete list of beneficiaries from the bureaucracy and to read earlier stories on the allotment issue, click here.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 24th, 2010.
The following is the list of top BPS-20 to 22 officers who were given category one plots in Islamabad:
| Khaild Rafique, AGP | Ijaz Nasir, judge Lahore High Court |
| Muhammad Amin, military engineering service | Raja Abdullah Khan, ministry of law and justice |
| Nasiruddin Ahmed, secretary finance | Mohammad Afzal Khan, special judge LHC |
| Pervaiz Saleem, joint secretary interior | Arif Khan, secretary law, justice and parliamentary affairs |
| Nasir Chugtai, Pakistan Atomic Energy | Zafar Afaq Ansari, National Institute of Psychology |
| Khalid Latif, Punjab government | Nisar Alam Mirza, Dr A Q Laboratories |
| Afzal Amir Shah, Customs | Zahur Cheema, Wapda |
| Ghulam Kibria, director PAEC | Mohammad Siddique, SBP |
| Abdullah Yousuf, secretary petroleum ministry | Sheikh Mohammad Anwar, Sui Northern Gas Pipeline |
| Zaheer Ali Shah, ministry of industries | Aftab Ahmed Khan, CAA |
| Ghiasuddin | Mohammad Yaqub, Governor SBP |
| Wafaqi Mohtasib | Iftikharudin, UBL |
| Syed Shabir Ahmed, Intelligence Bureau | Naimat Ali Javed, PAEC |
| Mohammad Amin, FIA | Mian Mohammad Ajmal, Peshawar High Court judge |
| Sohail Hamayun, SGDA Punjab | Ch Muhhtaq Ahmed Khan, judge LHC |
| Inamul Haq, secretary women development | Mohammad Munawar Khan, FPSC |
| Mohammad Zaman Khan, secretary education | Ahmed Goher, ministry of science and technology |
| Ghulam Nabi Khan, textile commissioner | Manzoor Ali Arif, NIH |
| Abdul Majid Khan, ministry of foreign affairs | Nazar Abbas, foreign office |
| Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi, Pakistan Railways | Mohammad Iqbal Khan, FBR |
| Mukhtarul Mulk, DIG | Mohammad Ikram Khan, ex-vice president PTCL |
| Mohamamd Farman, KRL Kahuta | Tasadduq Hussain Awan, SBP |
| Hamayun Shah, Project Margalla | Malik Mohammad Afzal, secretary PTC |
| Shahid Zafar, Evacuee Trust Property | Mushtaq Ahmed Khan, Railways |
| Istaqbal Mehdi, ministry of production | Tahir Mahmood, CBR |
| Bashir Hussain Qureshi, CLA on deputation to HBFC | Syed Mohsin Asad, CBR |
| Abdul Aziz, ministry of local government | G M Javed Jan, zakat & usher |
| Wazir Ahmed Qureshi, AGP | Pervez Tahir, planning division |
| Altaf Hussain Agral, defence production | M Ishaq Malla, Corporate Law Authority |
| Muneer Aftab Sheikh, DG audit | Taskeen Muzaffar, income tax |
| Raja Sikandar Khan, income tax | Syed Aqeel Zafrul Islam, CBR |
| Mohammad Asif Zaman Ansari, finance division | Asif Ali Shah, Frontier Constabulary |
| Mansoor Ali Sheikh, AGPR | Arshad Jamil Khokar, planning division |
| M Munir, Secretariat Training Institute | Shahid Malik, foreign office |
| Saadat Saeed, Planning Division | Firdaus Alam, zakat and usher |
| Aneesuddin Ahmed, high commissioner foreign office | Rashed Khan, National Defence College |
| Javed Hafeez, ambassador | Javed Iqbal, Balochistan High Court judge |
| Mohammad Abdul Jabbar, environment ministry | Shujjauddin Siddiqi, DG leather industry |
| Imtiaz Anjum, ambassador | Samiul Khiliji, ministry of housing and works |
| Husain Ahmed, zakat and ushr division | Fakhar Zaman |
| Ziauddin, military accounts | Sher Afzal Khan |
| Badshah Gul, DG AGPR | Nasim Qureshi, commerce ministry |
| Salim Iqbal, PM Inspection Commission | Amin Ajmal, income tax |
| Saira Karim, human rights | Syed Kamal Shah, secretary interior |
| Abdul Raza Khan, finance and zakat & usher | Mian Shakirullah Jan, Peshawar High Court judge |
| S M Younis Jafri, FBS | Shahzado Sheikh, member finance PARC |
| Mohammad Wali Khan, CBR | Tahir Anwar Pasha, director FIA |
| Azam Rathore, secretary Pakistan Post Office | Hamayun Farshori, secretary |
| Shaukat Ali Bhatti, CBR | Shakil Durrani, secretary |
| Mohammad Rafique, Railways | Masood Ahmed Pasha, consultant surgeon Federal Govt Services |
| Mahboob Elahi, DG environment | Salauhuddin, AGP |
| Mazhar Ali Shah, AGP | Talib Hussain Sial, women development |
| Toheed Ahmed, DG foreign office | Shaukat Ali Babar, income tax |
| Salauddin Solamin, planning division | Sibte Yaha Naqvi, DG foreign office |
| Mian Zaheer Ahmed, director FIA | Qadir ul Jalil, income tax |
| Hashim Leghari, secretary SGDA | Mohammad Rafiq, AGP |
| Rashed Ahmed Razvi, SHC judge | Jahangir Mahmood, DG Wapda |
| M Aslam, Jinnah Postgraduate | Sheikh Naseerul Haq, DG audit |
| Sajjad Bhatti, ANF | Mohammad Yaqooob, DIG |
| M Iqbal Hussain, establishment division | Ziaul Islam, S&GAD |
| Mohammad Akram, economic affairs division | Syed Faisal Saud, zakat & usher |
| Ejaz Ahmed Qureshi, chief secretary NWFP | Khalid Saeed, federal secretary information technology |
| G M Sikandar, secretary housing and works | Zafeer Abbasi, ministry of interior |
| Hafiz Mohammad Ziauddin, cabinet division | Raja Abbas |
| Shahid Sheikh, PWD | Yasmin Rana |
| M Asghar Chaudhary, CBR | Minfal |
| Muzamil Ghafoor, health division | Talat Rashid Miyan, DG FGE Housing Foundation |
| Syed Turab Haidre Zaidi, housing and works | Nadeem Shafique Malik, housing and works |
| Zubaid Waheed, income tax | Imtaiz Saeed Arbab, cabinet secretariat |
| Sheikh Abdul Manan, Federal Shariat Court | Khalid Paul Khawaja, LHC judge |
| Justice Irshad Hassan Khan, election commissioner | M Javed Ilyas, Dy AGP |
| Muzaffar Mahmood Qureshi, secretary women development | Farrukh Mirza, director DESTO |
| Akhtar Hussain Chaudhary | Mushtaq Ahmed |
| Sheikh Abdul Razak | Malik Abdul Rehman |
| Abdul Majeed Aulakh | Zafar Pasha Chaudhary |
| Mohammad Sadiq | Faiz Mohammad Khan |
| Mohammad Shafiq | Abdul Majeed Baloch |
| Syed Zahur Hassnain Bokhari | Syed Tasaduq Rehman |
| Akbar Ali Momin | Hamid Majid |
| Abdul Latif Khan | Anwar Hasasn Khan Yousufzai |
| Syed Mehr Badshah | Mansoor Ahmed |
| Nasurul Aziz | Younis Khan, AGP |
| Pervez Younis Paul, finance | Avia Mazhar Hussain |
| Munir Aslam | Nazir Gul |
| Abdul Rauf Khan | Saeed Rehman, DG archeology |
| Ziauddin Leghari, DIG | Farrukh Lateef |
| Mahboob Alam | Masud Ahmed |
| Tanveer Ahmed Chaudhary, immigration and passports | Mustafq Qureshi, director finance |
| Aslam Chaudhary | Khan Haroon Rasikh |
| Badarul Ishaq Khan | Shakara Reza Alley |
| Sher Mohammad Khan | Mohamamd Iqbal Ahmed |
| Habibullah, Mohammad Afzal | Iftikar Ahmed Raja |
| Bhadur Khan, vice-president NBP | Mohammad Akram |
| Agha Mohammad Kasi | Wazir Akbar |
| Umar Din | Anissudin Siddiqi |
| Bashir Chaudhary | Umar Hayat Khan |
| Gulan Khan | Jahanzeb Khan |
| Ch Mohammad Nasib | Ch Asghar Hussain |
| Syed Shaukat Ali Zaidi | Ch Riaz Ahmed Bhatti |
| Muhshtaq Hussain | Mohammad Latif |
| Shakeel Ahmed | Hafeezudin Asif |
| Hasan Abid Rizvi | Salahuddin |
| Mohammad Kamil, PTV | Azmat Malik |
| Nasir Arif | Syed Raza Rehman, information ministry |
| Abrar Hussain | Javid Hussain |
| Shahzad Akbar Khan | Mohammad Yousuf |
| M Sardar Khawaja | Syed Shafqat Kakakehl |
| Gulzar Bhatti, PIA | Javed Qureshi, Wapda |
| Chiragh Din Khokar, Wapda | Khalid Mahmood Chohan, controller PBC |
| Masood Sultan, PCSIR | Afzal Mattu |
| Naseem Hukat | Naseer Ahmed |
| Kazi Abdul Shakoor | Farooq Malik |
| Iftikharudin | Mohammad Shafique |
| Sohail Ittehad Hussain, ambassador | M Sharif |
| Shaukat Omar, ambassador | Salik Nazir Ahmed |
| Safdar Mahmood, secretary establishment | Ghayur Ayub |
| Mumtaz Hussain Shah Jawaid, ambassador | Durray Shahwar Kureshi |
| Khurram Azad Khan | Alam Zeb, DG NIPA |
| Syed Ali Sarwari Naqvi, foreign office | Mir Abdul Khaliq |
| Jawaid Mohsin Malik | Owais Qureshi |
| Sarfraz Ahmed Khan | Sakina Jafery |
| Haroon Rashid, audit | Akthar Shabir |
| M Rasheed Zafar | Nazar Abbas, DIG |
| Seerat Aly Shaikh | Khalid Mahmood, DG foreign office |
| Atlaf Ahmed Khan | Sh Habibur Rehman |
| Maqsoodur Rehman Sheikh | Saadatullah Khan, Additional IG |
| Shahid Jamal | Riaz Ahmed Bhatti |
| Abdull Khan | Kanwar Dilashad, secretary election commission |
| Qurban Jan | Abdul Rauf Khan |
| Shafqat Ezdi Shah, Additional IG Police | Riaz Rehman |
| Saeed Ahmed Zaidi | Asad Jahangir, AIG police |
| Pervez Akram, IB | Zafar Ahmed, additional secretary |
| Amin Farooqi, Registrar Supreme Court | Masood Ahmed |
| Kh Tariq | Hafeez Butt |
| Mohammad Nasir | Tariq Farooq |
| Mahrooo Hamayuon, DG food | Ghulam Mustafa |
| Afzal Durrani | Daud Khan |
| Munir Khan | Mohammad Naseer Ahmed |
| Iqbal Hussain | Sadat Zia Malik |
| Muzamal Khan | Riaz Ahmed Syed |
| Sarfraz Hussain Khawaja | Omarudin |
| Inayatullah Changezi, AGP | Shamsuddin Solangi |
| Noordin Sheikh | Sikandar Mohammad Zai |
| Riaz Hassan Khan | Khalid Sadiq |
| Karamat Hussain Niazi | Miaz Talib Hassan |
| Fazal Nabi | Ibrahim Khan |
| Gulam Ahmed | Zahida Saleem |
| Ali Raza | Khan Ehtisam |
| S Iqbal | Aga Kafeel Bakir |
| Nigat Parveen | |