56 bureaucrats 14 Judges received two plots each: PAC informed

ISLAMABAD, July 03 (SANA): Three existing and twelve retired judges of the Supreme Court received two residential plots each worth millions of rupees in expensive sectors of the federal capital, said a report presented to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday meanwhile it was also informed to PAC that 56 bureaucrats including Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani , Secretary General to Presidency  Salman Farooqui and former interior secretary Syed Kamal Shah  also grabbed two plots each in the federal capital and 156 received one plot each.

A report by the Ministry of Housing presented before the committee contained the details of allotment of two plots each to the Supreme Court Judges and bureaucrats.

Acting Chief Election Commissioner Justice Shakirullah Jan and former chief justice, Abdul Hameed Dogar were also among the beneficiaries.

According to this report these plots were allotted under rules framed by the former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz during the tenure of former President Pervez Musharraf.

Justicew Shakirullah Jan, Justice Tasadduqe Jilani, Justice Nasirul Mulk are included among the existing judges, while Justice Khalilur Rahman Ramday, former chief justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, Justice Javed Batar, Justice Saeed Ashhad, Justice Sardar Raza, Justice Nawaz Abbasi, Justice Faquir Khokhar, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Falak Sher, Justice Jamshed Ali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Zahid Hussain are included among the beneficiaries. Besides, former law secretary Justice (Retired) Mansoor Ahmad also received two residential plots. These plots are located in Islamabad’s prized residential sectors D-12, G-14, and G-13.

Appearing before the PAC meeting presided over by its Chairman Nadeem Afzal held here, Auditor General Akhtar Buland Rana explained his absence from previous meetings saying he was not in the country.

Member committee Noor Alam lost his temper and exchanged hot words over chairman committee defending the cabinet secretary and AG.

The details of judges and bureaucrats who had been allotted two plots in Islamabad were presented in a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday, presided over by its chairman Nadeem Afzal Chann.

The PAC had earlier sought details of bureaucrats and judges who had been allotted two plots in Islamabad after they filed affidavits for not owning any land in the federal capital.

The PAC chairman directed for action against the bureaucrats and judges who had illegally benefited from the policy made during Gen. Musharraf's rule.

The committee was informed that 16 judges of the Supreme Court also allotted two plots each.

The PAC chairman said that 56 bureaucrats who grabbed two plots of land each in the federal capital are include principal secretary of former prime minister Khalid Saeed, former Secretary Culture Jalil Abbas, Naveed Ahsan of Ministry of Finance, former Interior Secretary Cabinet Major (retd) Syed Kamal Shah, Muhammad Jameel , Ismail Hussan Niazi , former secretary religious affairs Wakeel Ahmed Khan , former chairman Railways Muhammad Shakeel Durani, Ismail Qureshsi, Ijaz Rahim, Abdul Rauf Chaudhry, Abdullah Yousuf, Kamran Rasool, Muhammad Ashfaq Gondal, Shoaib Saddal and others.

It is worth mentioning here that in the era of former President General (retd) Pervaiz Musharaf the then Prime minister Shoukat Aziz announced the privilege package for officers of grade 22 which enabled  the bureaucrats to have the right to hold two plots.