Hundreds of acres of Army land given as bribe to JUI by Musharraf

Sa1eem · November 7, 2008, 4:55am

Yar Aalsi brother, Ansar Abbais allegations and truth is two different thing. Anyhow, if there was any truth in such report than we would have heard that from some reliable journalists too. On the other hand, did you notice that even this report as it is presented shows that Ansar Abbasi is liar, propagandist with an agenda, and sold out soul? Let me show you his lies. Look what he writes:

Hundreds of acres of Army land given as bribe to JUI

Hundreds of acres of Army land given as bribe to JUI by Musharraf

Sunday, November 02, 2008
Akram Durrani admits his people got it; JUI spokesman denies; Qazi Hussain shocked

By Ansar Abbasi

ISLAMABAD: The mystery behind General Pervez Musharraf’s success in convincing Maulana Fazlur Rehman of the JUI in 2004 not to oppose his uniform has been partially solved — the general had doled out hundreds of acres of military land worth millions of rupees to the near and dear ones of the Maulana.
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The ousted dictator is now known to have secretly allotted 1,200 Kanals of military land in D I Khan to his opposition leader in the last National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman and his chief minister in the NWFP Akram Khan Durrani in 2004.

Though the military land was transferred in the names of those who are either closely related to these two JUI-F leaders or are their relatives, the Revenue Department in DI Khan confirmed that both these leaders had at least 600 Kanals each in their personal possession.

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But the documents, available with The News, confirm that six men connected with Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Akram Durrani were allotted 200 Kanals each whereas a senior Revenue officer, serving in DI Khan, also acknowledged that the said land was actually in the possession of these two leaders.

The documents show that whole of this land was allotted in Rakh Ghass, Tehsil and district Dera Imail Khan where the provincial government had allotted almost 136,000 Kanals of land to the Pakistan Army for its scheme under which the officers and JCOs and their families are allotted agriculture land of different sizes on the basis of their performance, seniority, sacrifice etc under a well determined formula.

Adjutant General’s Branch, W&R Directorate, in its six separate letters dated Oct 23, 2004 and clearly tagged as “restricted”, allotted 200 Kanals of agriculture land in Rakh Ghass D I Khan to each of the following beneficiaries:

Abrar Ahmad Khan son of Muhammad Ismail Khan, street 41 Sector I-9/4 Jamia Masjid Farooq-e-Azam, Islamabad.

Generally known as Mufti Abrar, this allottee is the personal assistant of Maulana Fazlur Rehman. He has been allotted land in Khasra No 717, 716 and 715, the document shows;

Sharifullah son of Mr Rahmatullah, Mohallah Mehmood Khel, village Abdul Khel, district D I Khan. He is attached with the brother of the Maulana, Maulana Lutfur Rehman, and is considered as their family member. He has been allotted land in Khasra No 718, 719 and 720;

Muhammad Ramzan son of Mr Feroz Khan, Mohallah Mehmood Khel, village Abdul Khel district D I Khan. He is closely related to Sharifullah and is also close with the Maulanas. He was allotted land in Khasras No 715 and 714;

Ibrar Ali Shah son of Asghar Ali Shah, Mewa Khel, Fazal Haq Malwana, Bannu. He is cousin of Durrani, who admitted the same and asserted that his father is a retired soldier so the son got the land. He was allotted land in Khasra No 718, 719 and 720;

Muhammad Ashraf Ali Khan son of Muhammad Shahzad Khan, village Khutti, Tehsil and dist D I Khan. He is included in the personal staff of Maulana Fazlís brother Maulana Lutfur Rehman. He was allotted land in Khasra No 717, 716 and 715; and

Muhammad Shahzad Khan son of Alam Sher Khan, Hibak Sharzah Khan P/O Sikandar Khel Bannu. He is the uncle of Durrani as admitted by the former chief minister. Durrani said that his uncle was a retired soldier so was given land by the GHQ. Shahzad Khan was allotted land in Khasra No 715 and 714.

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Now think … Ansar Abbasi never finds any hesitation in lying. So, what he wrote? He wrote hundreds of acres. What hundreds of acres mean … Many hundred acres … but how much land was allotted (assuming that at least this part of report is true … though I doubt whatever liars like Ansar Abbasi write).

6 allotments of 200 Kanals each … in total 1200 Kanals. How much is that? It is 6 allotment of 25 acres each … in total 150 acres. Now, no one would write 150 acres as ‘hundreds of acres’ right? … but who would write that? Only a Liar like Ansar Abbasi could do that, trying to misguide his readers.

How much 150 acres of agricultural lands would be worth in NWFP? I do not know but I know that a good developed agricultural land in Punjab last year, fed by canal, was between 4 to 5 lac rupees an acre (well, if one negotiates, one may have got it at even lower price). Rain-fed agricultural lands are much cheaper (at some places it could be a tenth the price of canal fed lands). Land in 2004 was cheaper. I know that agricultural lands in Sindh are much cheaper than Punjab and I believe that lands in NWFP would be cheaper than Punjab too. Undeveloped agricultural lands are less than half the price of developed agricultural lands.

Assuming that lands given to these people (if it is really given) have to be undeveloped, as that is usual allotted lands to military personals. My, guess is that lands in Rakh Ghass, Dera Ismail Khan, may be worth around 50 thousands per acre at most (if it was in Sindh than such lands fed by canal could be worth no more than few tens of thousands rupees per acre).

So, if one assumes the price to be 50 thousands per acre (I believe that even that is too high assumption), than the price of those 150 acres are no more than 75 lac. I think that Ansar Abbasi is just a propagandist liar who is working for thug like NS and wants to fool and misguide people.