• Watchdog says that ‘illegal treatment’ between officials, the city of Bahria that involves more than 17,000 costs of consistent cost of RS708 billion
• Ex-CM Qaim, Sharjeel Memon, Malik Riaz and senior government officials between suspects
Karachi: The National Responsibility Office has presented a reference against former Sindh Prime Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Prime Minister Sharjeel Memon, Malik Riaz’s Property Magnate and several senior government officials for converting, exchanging and transferring government land To the city of Bahria.
The responsibility dog alleged that the entire executive hierarchy, the Income Board and the Malir Development Authority (MDA) had conspired to give up a valuable public property to an individual for some profits. The NAB investigation officer presented the reference to the administrative judge of the Karachi responsibility courts and appointed 33 people as defendants.
He argued that the defendant in Connivance Active caught 17,671.87 acres under the grip of “adjustment/exchange/consolidation in 2013-14 in pure violation of the law by the city of Bahria, which caused a colossal loss of more than RS708.08 billion to the national installer.
The reference names the former member of the Truste Board Ahmed Baksh Narejo; Secretaries of the Land Use Department Saqib Ahmed Soomro and Mohammad Javed Hanif Khan; Then the general director of the MDA, Mohammad Sohail; The General Directors of the Construction Control Authority of Sindh (SBCA) Manzoor Qadir and Agha Maqsood Abbas; Deputy Commissioner (East) Kazi Jan Mohammad; Several commissioners attending; CEO of Bahria Town, Ahmed Ali Riaz; Vice President Zain Malik; and others.
According to the reference, the investigation began in 2015 after a complaint about the usurpation of the government of the government by the city of Bahria for the project ‘Bahria Town Karachi’ in Malir, near the M-9 highway. The investigation was subsequently updated in an investigation in 2016.
The reference said that the CM qaim Ali Shah connected with the coacusado by not approved the “summary for CM” dated January 12, 2016, sent by the prosecution’s witness/the Member Revenue Board of the Members, Sindh Mohammad Waseem, for the cancellation of the cancellation of previous December 26, 2013, on Ahmed Baksh Narejo in violation of Law MDA, 1993.
On the contrary, the CM qaim Ali Shah with intentions of bad relief ordered the Secretary of the Local Government Department to issue a Corrigéndum on May 5, 2016. The CM neither had jurisdiction nor was it competent to issue such Corrigendum, he said.
Sharjeel Memon, principal minister of the titular government, was the president of the MDA and minister of the Local Government Department at that time and approved “regulation with respect to the consolidation/adjustment/exchange of private lands of Kabuli surveys and state lands alleged by The Income Board, etc. “in violation of section 49 of the MDA Law.
He said that at the first MDA meeting held on January 24, 2014, Memon also approved the adjustment of the government’s land to the city of Bahria, while also approved the 32 DEHS preliminary conceptual plan, as well as a plan of Design of the city of Bahria, Karachi. In violation of the law and regulations.
In addition, he said that Ahmed Baksh Narejo had issued a notification on December 26, 2013, for conducting a physical survey and preparation of the road network and also addressed the MDA and income authorities that update the registration of rights and maintain Tickets in the computerized records, but this approval was not given in the CM summary, he added.
The reference said that Saqib Memon had invoked section 10 (1) of the Government Land Colonization Law (COGLA) 1912 and issued an imperative order on January 24, 2014, through which 14,617 acres of the land of the land of the land of the land of the land of the land of the land of Government were assigned/reserved in favor of the city of Bahria. He argued that Javed Hanif had issued allocation letters on January 31, 2015 to MDA when the possession of assigned government lands was already with the city of Bahria.
Similarly, he said that Mohammad Sohail had granted approvals for the adjustment/exchange/consolidation of 7,220 acres of Kabuli private lands with not assigned government lands in violation of the laws, as well as a restriction order of the Superior Court issued in 2012 .
The reference also said that the then DC East, together with other officials, in collusion with the coacusado had participated in the transfer of government lands of more than 7,220 acres.
He said that SBCA DG Manzoor Qadir approved the application of the city of Bahria entitled “Issuance of permission to reserve the city of Bahria Karachi” in violation of the Control Ordinance of Buildings of Sindh and the planning regulations of the city of Karachi, while That Agha Masood could not take measures against the announcement of the illegal media of Bahria de Bahria de Bahria. Karachi City.
Posted in Dawn, February 2, 2025
