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Is this really true. A simple mathematical calculation
There are a minimum of 1 lakh small cities in Pakistan. If each village had a minimum of 5 great mayors, then imagine the amount of land that would be distributed to these "pile ons."
How terrible. Just becuase you are the progeny of somebody great, it does not mean that you enjoy the benefits eternally.
Simplyme and slickstar.
Please update your knowledge about land-contract laws before posting half-truths.
No-one gets land because of their mayorship of gran-gran-pappy, gran-pappy, or pappy.
Pak-taxpayers are the real owners of the "Government land". This land is given to families under different contracts. These families are usually "resourceful" and considered "strong supporters" of the government.
One particular class of "extremely-faithful" families were given 1 murabba for raising one mare (and not a mayor as slickstar says :-) ) for the cavalry. This practice was in vogue during mogal times and kept on during British and later Pakistani rule. Even though Pak army doesn't need mares for its cavalry, the land remains in the same family.
There are many more types of land contracts that are issued to ex-bureaucrats and retired servicemen. Some of these remain in the family, and some are taken back by the government after the death of the contract awardee. It is beyond the scope of this thread to cover every type of land contract. BTW there is a huge difference between different provinces when it comes to the contracts on the government-owned land.
Some land-contractors abuse this privilege and hire sub-contractors to actually till the land.
The bottom line is that a "resourceful land-contractor" may become a mayor of a town, or a "government-lackey mayor" may use his "contacts" to acquire land-contract.
But the mayors DO NOT automatically get the land-contracts.
So go easy simplyme. this is not a common practice for 50,000 mayors to become land-contractees. In fact mayor is a term only used for towns bigger than certain size. So every village do not get a mayor.
p.s. I murabba area = 25 British-acres (correct me if it is wrong).