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 24^th, 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
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