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Sunday, December 28, 2008
land doled out to civilian officials
By Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: A total of 6,700 kanals of military land in Punjab, earmarked for war veterans and families of martyrs, were allotted to 47 civilian officials of the provincial government during the Gen. (R) Pervez Musharraf regime.
Documents made available to The News reveal that all but one of the beneficiaries posted in Punjab have been made OSDs while the provincial government has also approached the military authorities to get the controversial allocation of military land to civilian officials cancelled.
The then dictator also allotted military land in Dera Ismail Khan, NWFP, where the violation was even graver because six people closely associated with JUI-F head Maulana Fazlur Rehman and ex-chief minister Akram Khan Durrani were allotted 12,000 kanals. The beneficiaries were not even in government service.
The land is reportedly in use of Fazlur Rehman and Durrani. In addition to this dole-out of the military land in DI Khan on purely political grounds, certain officials of the revenue department were also given hundreds of kanals of land.
But unlike the Punjab administration, the NWFP government remains unmoved and has taken no action to get the allotments reversed, at least in the case of the JUI-F leaders who, an army spokesman recently confirmed, were given the land in violation of the law.
Although the controversial allotments both in Punjab and Frontier were made during Musharraf’s rule, as president and army chief, the present military command has yet to decide on whether to undo this wrongdoing and get back the land meant for war veterans and families of martyrs.
For its part, the Punjab government has directed the authorities concerned to ensure the military land doled out to civilian officers is not further sold. The relevant officers may be asked to return the land allotted to them in compliance with orders from the GHQ during the Musharraf dictatorship to the provincial government to avoid further disciplinary proceedings.
A military spokesman recently told The News there was a legal provision for allotting a small part of the military land to certain authorised civilian officials from government departments such as revenue. However, the Punjab government’s document said all those civilian beneficiaries were directly linked to the land record/allotment process or facilitation and provision of irrigation water and other facilities for the portions allotted to them.
“It is quite apparent that all of them have been rewarded for going beyond the call of duty in facilitating the entire process,” said the document. The provincial government is of the view that if at all some part of the military land is required to be allotted to civilian officials by the GHQ it should be done through it.
Last month, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ordered that: (i) A panel be put up for conducting an in-depth inquiry into the issue of allotment of state land to the civil officers out of land reserved for military personnel. (ii) All the officers involved be made OSDs and not given any assignment till completion of the inquiry. (iii) In order to ensure that no one is discriminated against, the officers already suspended be reinstated and made OSDs. (iii) All concerned revenue/registration authorities (should) ensure that no further alienation of the allotted land in question is made.”
A total of 6700 kanals of military land was allotted in seven districts of Punjab to 47 civilian officials during the Musharraf dictatorship, the documents show. In Pakpattan, Revenue Patwari of Tehsil Arifwala Khawar Javaid Anjum was allotted 66 kanals of military land.
In Khanewal, then Secretary and now Principal Secretary to Punjab Governor Sardar Ahmad Nawaz Sukhera was allotted 200 kanals; ex-senior clerk and now litigation assistant DO (R) Rana Muhammad Hanif 200 kanals; Director Land at Board of Revenue Mushtaq Ahmad Anjum 200 kanals; District Officer (R) Lodhran Mir Muhammad Azam Khan 200 kanals; Assistant Director BoR Lahore Qamar Abbas Sultan 200 kanals; HVC to DO (R) Khanewal Malik Muhammad Qasim 100 kanals; Project Director ABAD Rawalpindi Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah 200 kanals; Tehsildar Khanewal now Tehsildar Mianchannu Muhammad Zafar Ali 100 kanals; senior clerk Sadar Office Khanewal Liaqat Ali Javed 100 kanals; DDO(R) Khanewal Muhammad Zahid Ikram 200 kanals; DDO(G) Sikandar Ali Bokhari 200 kanals; Patwari Mauza Zakhira Muhammad Waseem Akhtar 100 kanals; and Kanongoo circle Kacha Huh Muhammad Iqbal 100 kanals.
In Sahiwal, Patwari of district Pakpattan Khawar Javaid Anjum was allotted 34 kanals of military land while in Rahim Yar Khan EDO (R) Lodhran Syed Najaf Abbas Bokhari was given 200 kanals and Halqa Patwari Mahka Tehsil Sadiqabad Ashraf Ali Shah got 100 kanals.
In Muzaffargarh those allotted military land include DDO (R) Kot Addu Malik Muhammad Ramazan 200 kanals; Head Clerk Colony Muzafargarh Riaz Ahmad 100 kanals; Superintendent Colony Branch BOR Punjab Amjad Babar 100 kanals; PS to Member Colonies BOR Attaur Rehman 100 kanals; Assistant Colony Branch BOR Rashid Habib 100 kanals; Patwari Halqa Mauza Azizabad 100 Kanals; EDO Muzaffargarh Muhammad Ashraf Yousfi 100 kanals; Colony Clerk DDO (R) Office Muzaffargarh Ameer Hussain; and Colony Clerk DDO (R) Muhammad Shahid 100 kanals.
In Bahawalnagar, the beneficiaries include DDO (R) Ch Abdul Ghafoor Virk 200 kanals; DDO (R) Fortabbas Dur Muhammad Khan 200 kanals; DDO (R) Fortabbas Irshad Mohyuddin 200 kanals; Tehsildar Fortabbas Mian Muhammad Akram 100 kanals; Patwari Halqa 295/A/HR Syed Munawar Hussain Shah 100 kanals; Head Draftsman Irrigation Department Syed Aqib Hussain Shah 100 kanals; Qasid Aiwan-e-Sadar/Army House Noor Hussain 100 kanals; Naib Qasid Aiwan-e-Sadar/Army House Mahmood Hussain 100 kanals; Mali Aiwan-e-Sadar/Army House Ghulam Rasool 100 kanals; civil cook Aiwan-e-Sadar/Army House Muhammad Sikandar 100 kanal; Sub-Inspector Rangers Muhammad Irshad 100 kanals; and Qasid Aiwan-e-Sadar/Army House Abdul Ahsan 100 kanals.
In Bahawalpur, the military land was allotted to Ex-EDO (R) Bahawalpur Syed Zahid Hussain Jillani 200 kanals; Ex-DO (R) Bahawalpur Dr Faisal Zahoor 200 kanals; Ex-DDO (R) Yazman Muhammad Ashfaq 200 kanals; Ex-DDO (R) Muhammad Akram Bhatti 200 kanals; Ex-DDO (R) Hasilpur Amir Karim Khan 200 kanals; Project Director OFWM Bahawalpur Mushtaq Gill 200 kanals; ex-Colony Clerk Bahawalpur Muhammad Amjad 100 kanals; and Patwari Tehsil Yazman Muzaffar Alam 100 kanals.
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