Corruption in Armed Forces

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The News - Dec 2003

Queries about ex-generals’ assets rejected

By our correspondent

ISLAMABAD: **The Senate Secretariat has scrapped opposition senators’ questions seeking details of assets of late Gen Ziaul Haq, Gen Akhtar Abdur Rehman during the period 1977-1985, arguing they were of secret nature and could not be disclosed to public.

Likewise, another question regarding allotment of a plot in the Police Foundation, Islamabad to Gen Pervez Musharraf has not been accepted on the grounds that no question could be put against the president of Pakistan.**

This is not for the first time that such questions particularly raised by Senator Farhatullah Babar have been turned down by the chairman Senate on the grounds of secrecy. :rolleyes: Earlier, Babar had asked the defence minister to state whether the practice of asset declaration by the army officers before the central officers record office (GHQ) was still continuing or has been discontinued.

If the practice was continuing, then assets of Gen Zia during 1977 when he imposed military rule and in 1985 when elections were held be declared. Likewise, the government was also asked to give similar details about the assets of Gen Akthar Abdur Rehman during the same years. The defence minister was also asked to tell whether General Pervez Musharraf had obtained a plot for himself from the Police Foundation

The News - Aug 2002

NAB can’t sue armed forces personnel

By our correspondent

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) could not file a case against members of Pakistan Armed Forces because of the immunity granted to them under the Constitution and the Supreme Court judgment, confirmed Prosecutor-General Accountability Raja Muhammad Bashir here on Tuesday.

The controversy of moving against members of the armed forces began when disgraced former naval chief Mansurul Haq attributed a statement to the chief executive that “serving military officers would also be taken to task”. “The Army law is self-contained and the accountability of Army officers and other ranks are held within the parameters of that law,” said Raja Bashir.

So if the public cannot get a full accounting of both serving and retired Armed forces people’s assets, how can we remove corruption?

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Don't bring this out in the public! You are bringing shame to our hero generals.

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Khilari, there is corruption in virtually every department of Pakistan, and the armed forces is just one of them, though some people believe its less than all the other civil departments, but even the army people themselves do not deny this corruption.

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Khilari, there is corruption in virtually every department of Pakistan, and the armed forces is just one of them, though some people believe its less than all the other civil departments, but even the army people themselves do not deny this corruption.
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Yaara I know that. But the Musharraf cheerleaders here seem to endorse every move of his, but keep silent on the fact that the corruption in he Army has increased manifold during Musharraf's reign.

This is simply because hordes of retired Generals have been appointed to control govt departments like WAPDA and that has exponentially increased the scope for corrupt people to make hay.

Why are they silent on this?