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PM’s grace bestowed on 16 SC judges
ISLAMABAD: Sixteen judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan were quietly allotted residential plots worth millions of rupees each in Islamabad’s expensive sectors over the last two years (2008-2010) on the direct orders of the Prime Minister’s Secretariat under a scheme somewhat incredulously called the “Prime Minister’s Assistance Package”.
A list of the names of the beneficiaries, which also includes the name of ad hoc judge Khalilur Rehman Ramday, was recently submitted to the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) by the federal ministry of housing. The list tops the agenda of the next PAC meeting.
The plots were allotted by the Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF) after it received official letters containing the names of 16 judges from the PM’s Secretariat.
The subject of these official letters issued by the PM’s Secretariat was the allotment of residential plots under the Prime Minister’s Assistance Package. However, no details have been given regarding what prompted the government to float such a scheme, meant exclusively for the Supreme Court judges.
The names of 16 Supreme Court judges are part of a main list of about 100 judges of both the four provincial high courts as well as Supreme Court of Pakistan now in the possession of the PAC secretariat. The chairman of the PAC, Ch Nisar Ali Khan, who heads the most powerful parliamentary body of the National Assembly, had ordered the housing ministry to provide details of the allotment of plots to judges, journalists, bureaucrats, and politicians from 1996 to date.
Documents exclusively available with The Express Tribune reveal that, apart from the allotment of plots to 16 Supreme Court judges under the Prime Minister’s Assistance Package, 14 judges of the Supreme Court — both sitting and retired – were given two plots each by the government in violation of official policy, which restricts such allotments to only one plot per person, and that too if they do not already have a plot in the capital.
Moreover, the judges of superior courts were allotted plots even though they were not serving in Islamabad – an essential requirement for such allotments. The exception in the updated list of judges’ who have been allotted plots, is the name of the honourable Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, who has not been allotted any plots in Islamabad. Otherwise, a quick look at official files now sent to the PAC reveals that almost all judges who served in the higher judiciary were given plots.
The first-ever list of plots given to judges, politicians, journalists and bureaucrats has been compiled after Ch Nisar Ali Khan had issued instructions to submit the names those who were given plots as a part of government policy. The Express Tribune will also publish the list of remaining beneficiaries of the government’s allotment policy.
LHC Chief Justice Khwaja Sharif also accepted a plot in Islamabad although he was serving in Lahore. Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, who retired on January 12 and was given a new contract, however took two plots from the government. The newly-appointed chairman of the NAB Justice Deedar Hussain Shah also got a plot in 2004 when he was a judge of the SC. Attorney General Moulvi Anwarul Haq also got a plot as a judge.
PM?s grace bestowed on 16 SC judges – The Express Tribune
The following is the list of judges who have been allotted plots since 1996 to date.
Former Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, Justice Nawaz Abbasi, Justice Faqik Khokar, Justice Jawaid Butter, Justice Saeed Asad, Justice Sardar Raza Khan, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jaan, Justice Tasaddiq Hussain Jillani, Justice Khalid Paul Khawaja, justice Rana Mohammad Arshad Khan, Justice Shahida Khursheed, Justice Rao Naeem Hashim Khan, Saba Mohuiddin Khan ( district and session juduge), Justice Deedar Hussain Shah, Justice Sheikh Abdul Manan, Justice Zafar Pasha Ch. Justice Saeed Rehman Faruukh, Justice Syed Ahmed Rabbani, Justice Abdul Shakoor Parach, Justice Mohammad Ashraf, Justice Nasim Sikandar, Justice Mohammad Roshan Easani, Justice M Bilal Khan, Justice Mansoor Ahmed, Justice Syed Zahid Hussain, Justice Mohammad Ghani, Justice Shah Jhanan Khan, Justice Zafar Yasin, Justice Nasirul Mulk, Justice Pervez Ahmed, Justice Sarmad Jalal Usmani, Justice M Naeemullah Khan, Justice Mohamamd Khalid Alvi, Justice Qazi Ehsanullah Qureshi, Justice Ejaz Ahmed Ch. Justice Bashir Mujhhid, Justice Ch. Ejaz Yousuf ( CJ Federal Shariat court), Justice Malik Ahmed Saeed, Justice Akhtar Zaman Mulghani, Justice Farrukh Latif, Justice Talat Qayyum Qureshi, Justice Tanveer Bashir Ansari, Justice Mian Mohmmad Najum Zaman, Justice Rustum Ali Malik, Justice Doost Mohammad Khan, Justice Syed Jamshid Ali, Justice Ahmed Khan Lashari, Justice Saqib Nisar, Justice Aslam Jaffri, Justice Amanullah Khan, Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, Justice Shahzad Akbar Khan, Justice Shah Abdur Rashid, Justice Mohammad Sadiq Leghari, Justice Mohammad Akram Baito, Justice Mujeeaullah Siddiqu, Justice Fazalur Rehman Khan, Justice Mohammad Akhtar Shabir, Justice Syed Zawar Hussain Jaffri, Justice Ch. Ejaz Ahmed, Justice Mohammad Saeed Akthar, Justice Syed Manzoor Gilani, Justice Farrukh Mahmood, Justice M Muzamil Khan, Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan, Justice Mohammad Akthar Shahid Siddiqi, Justice Mohammad Sair Ali, Justice Mian Hamid Farooq, Justice Sardar Mohammad Aslam, Justice Sheikh Hakim Ali, Justice Syed Sakhi Hussain Bokhari, Justice Tariq Pervez, Justice Khwaja Mohammad Shairf, Justice Moulvi Anwarul Haq ( currently AG), Justice Zia Pervez, Justice Mushtaq Hussain, Justice Baqir Ali Rana, Justice Syed Akhlaq Ahmed, Justice Mahboob Qadir, Mukhtar Gondal, civil juge and Haji Ahmed. Justice Dilawar Mahmood, Justice Abdul Karim Khan Kundi (PHC), Justice Mian Ghulam Ahmed ( LHC), Justice Agha Saifuddin Khan ( SHC), Justice Kazi Hameeduin (PHC), Justice Arif Iqbal Bhatti ( LHC), Justice Syed Ibne Ali ( PHC), Justice Mohammad Aqil Mirza ( LHC), Justice Sheikh Mohammad Zubair ( LHC), Justice Abdul Hafeez Cheema (LHC), Justice Sharif Hussain Bokhari (LHC), Justice Abdul Rehman Khan (LHC), Justice Mohammad Islam Bhatti (LHC), Justice Kamal Mansoor Alam (SHC), Justice Sajjad Ahmed Sipra (LHC), Justice Mahboob Ali Khan (Peshawar High Court), Justice Ali Mohammad Baloch (SHC), Justice Qazi Mohammad Farooq (PHC), Justice (r) Mohammad Nasim (LHC), Justice Munir A Sheikh (LHC), Justice Fida Mohammad Khan (Federal Sharaiat Court), Justice Tanveer Ahmed Khan (LHC), Justrice Amir Alim Khan (LHC), Justice Ehsanul Haq Ch (LHC), Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqi (LHC), Justice Mian Nazir Akthar (LHC), Justice Ahmed Ali Mirza (SHC), Justice Raja Mohammad Sabir (LHC), Justice Karamat Nazir Bhandari (LHC), Justice Rashid Aziz Khan (LHC), Munwar Ahmed Mirza (BHC), Justice Bhagwandas (SHC). Justice Mohammad Nawaz Marri (BHC), Justice Nawaz Khan Gandapur (PHC), Nawaz Abbasi (LHC), Justice Falaksher (LHC), Justice Khailur Rehman Ramday of LHC (Justice Ramday took two plots. The second he was allotted in his name hardly two months before his retirement on November 19, 2009), Justice Malik Qayyum (LHC). Justice Sardar Mohammad Raza (PHC), Justice Amir Mulk Mengal (BHC), Justice Iftikar Hussain Chaudhary (LHC), Justice Mohamamd Khursheed Khan ( chief court Northern area), and Justice Mohammad Khial Ombudsman office, also got plots at Islamabad.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/68256/list-of-judges-allotted-plots-since-1996/
It pays to be a bureaucrat in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The parliamentary watch-dog of the government, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), is in possession of a list of 450 members of the bureaucracy who have benefitted from the riches on offer via the plot allotment policy promoted by successive prime ministers.
These plots, given to top bureaucrats, were mostly allotted in the most expensive I-8 sector, where one plot is worth over Rs40million in the open market. The list also contains the names of non-bureaucrats, who were probably friends or relatives of past prime ministers.
However, this list, submitted by the housing ministry, does not directly name the prime ministers who made the allotments in up-market residential localities to their preferred civil servants. Sources privy to the intrigues of the capital said that it is only after incumbent prime ministers use their discretionary powers to dish out a round of plots among senior civil servants do they start getting the bureaucrats’ cooperation in governance.
The official documents tabled before the PAC and exclusively available with The Express Tribune reveal that former prime ministers allotted plots in I-8, E-12 and D-12 sectors.
The exclusive and so far secret list of these beneficiaries of past prime ministers’ discretionary powers, were sought by the chairman PAC Ch. Nisar Ali Khan in one of the recent meetings at Islamabad.
However, the ministry of housing and works has not shared full details with the PAC.
Sources said that, without identifying the chief executives of the country that had misused their discretionary powers, this whole exercise, undertaken on the orders of the PAC, would amount to nothing.
One official source said that the list has been made ambiguous by withholding a number of important facts in order to hide the real motives behind the allotments to civil servants by past prime ministers.
In the list, the ministry of housing and works has only given the subject “list of applicants to whom plots were allotted – special allocation.” No further details have been given about these ‘special allocations’ and how they were made.
Some of the big names of the past who benefitted from such allotments were: A Rehman Malik, Javed Masood, Shaukat Hussain, Zaheeurdin Babar, Mumtaz Ahmad, Masood Sahrif (former IB chief), Rabia Noor, Shaukat Ali Sheikh, Zafar Ali Hilali (former ambassador), Javed Hassan Aly (civil servant), Abdul Rauf Ch, Ahmed Masood Chaudhri, Abdul Waheed Qazi, Riaz Hussain Qureshi (former PPP MNA from Multan), Aslam Shami, S K Mehmood, Aslam Shami, Manzoor Memon, Aslam Hayat Qureshi (former Chief Secretary Punjab), Mirza Qaswar Saeed (former DG Public Relations Farooq Leghari), Zaheer Khan, Syed Mohib Asad (former DG FIA), Javed Akthar Sheikh, Sardar Anwar Ahmed Khan, Ashfaq Mahmood, Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Mutawakil Qazi, Shauja Shah, Zafar Hussain Mirza ( judge), Shamsher Ali Khan (former principal secretary to President Farooq Leghari), Mohammad Shoaib Suddle (former IG Karachi), Khawaja Mohammad Hamid, Syed Anwar Mahmood, Javed Masood, Ashiq Hussain Qureshi, Nek Mohammad, Zulfikar Ali Khan (major general) and others.
The list of higher judiciary judges who were given plots in the past and even during the present government on the orders of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani as a part of an ‘Assistance Package’ was carried by The Express Tribune on Wednesday.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/68744/it-pays-to-be-a-bureaucrat-in-pakistan/
