Top bureaucrats, police officers to get free plots in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: In a recent development, senior bureaucrats and top police officers are being allocated one-kanal plots in the upscale Sector E-11 at remarkably low prices.

These prices are a staggering 1.5 percent of the current market rates. Islamabad over the distribution of one-kanal residential plots in the elite sector E-11 for government officials.

Aftab Akbar Durrani, who formerly served as the interior secretary, as well as high-ranking police officers such as IG Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Akhtar Hayat Khan, Dr. Usman Anwar, the Inspector General of Punjab, and Sabir Ahmed, the Managing Director of the National Police Foundation.

The Officers declared such plots in Sectors E-9, and additional IGP Punjab Bilal Siddique Kamyana received a plot in E-9 for an unbelievable amount of Rs. 500,000 when its actual value was Rs. 30 million.

Also, NPF charged about Rs. 1.57 million for the plots which are nowhere near the current value of about Rs. 100 million per plot.

NPF Managing Director Sabir Ahmed has given justification for these prices stating that there was no violation of any law because plots that have remained unoccupied for years are eligible to be given out again at their old prices. He disclosed that the plot registers were canceled since the last known occupants did not keep in touch.

Nonetheless, there are critics of this action. Shahid Iqbal, a former deputy inspector general of police, whose land Ada was given up to another officer after reallocation, has appealed to the court, claiming unfair cancellation.

A former legal advisor has furthermore claimed that the national police foundation has resources and employs such strategies that favor only certain officers.

This controversy took a more disturbing twist when it was disclosed that the former interior secretary Durrani made a rule just before retirement, that restructured NPF and extended the tenure of the managing director, which is contrary to the society’s guidelines.