so much hue and cry on the lands allocated to army yesterday, although this is how they treat Sindh’s land.
Rangers operation against land grabbers also upsets Malik Riaz
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KARACHI: In an apparent move to defuse tension between the PPP and the security establishment, the Sindh government on Friday decided ‘in principle’ to allot 9,000 acres of its forest lands to Pakistan Army against its 14-year-old ‘application’ for 35,521 acres which it wants to distribute among the heirs of martyred soldiers and wounded military personnel
The decision to allot 9,000 acres of lands in Garhi Yasin of Shikarpur district to Pakistan Army was taken during a meeting presided over by Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah at the CM House. The meeting was called to discuss this matter exclusively.
The Sindh government’s move came days after PPP leader Senator Farhatullah Babar hinted in a speech in Senate that the rejection of demand for thousands of acres of lands had led to the present situation which had brought the Rangers and the provincial government at loggerheads.
“Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has decided to allot 9,000 acres of forest lands to Pakistan Army for onward distribution among the heirs of martyred and war wounded military personnel,” said a statement issued by the CM House.
“Since the request has been made for the rehabilitation of martyrs’ families and war-wounded military personnel, therefore, this request must be honoured. Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif had personally asked for the allotment of the land.”
The meeting was attended by Sindh Minister for Forest Gianchand Israni, Chief Secretary Siddiq Memon, Principal Secretary to CM Almuddin Bullo, senior member of Sindh Board of Revenue Shoaib Siddiqui, Finance Secretary Sohail Rajput, Forest Secretary Sajaad Abbasi and other officers concerned.
In 2001 the Pakistan Army had formally forwarded an application seeking 35,521 acres of forest lands in Garhi Yasin of Shikarpur district.
After becoming army chief, General Raheel personally pursued the application.
Forest Minister Israni told the meeting that the land in question was located in the area of Golo Daro of Garhi Yasin and added at present only 9,000 acres of lands was available. His ministry had no objection if it was allotted to Pakistan Army, he added.
Chief Secretary Siddiq Memon said that the army sought land for the families of its 500 martyrs, 200 of whom belonged to Sindh.
However, the meeting made it clear that the forest land could only be used for agricultural purposes under the rules.
“Senior member of Sindh Board of Revenue Shoaib Siddiqui told the meeting that under the policy forest land can be allotted only for agricultural purposes,” said the statement.
“The Pakistan Army has already made request to use it for agricultural purposes, therefore, the government was authorised to allot the land.”
Forest Secretary Sajjad Abbasi said that under the policy the lease holder of the land was bound to cultivate forests on 20 per cent of the total holding and 80 per cent could be used for agricultural purposes.
Mr Israni said that under the defined rules, the forest land could only be allotted to an individual or institution for a certain period, which could be extended by the chief minister.
“However, the purpose of its utility cannot be changed and it remains solely for agricultural purpose,” he added.
“The chief secretary would call next meeting to sort out all relevant issues. If one wants to change the purpose of those lands than we need to change the forest rules and for that purpose there is a certain procedure and legislation which requires the provincial assembly’s nod.”
*Published in Dawn, June 20th, 2015
Sindh decides to give 9,000 acres of its forest lands to army - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
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Sindh gov’t ka kiya hia.. .woh to army ko bhi allot kar deti hia… :cobra:
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sab dacoo hayn, ek se barh ke ek… kia politicians, kia “industrialists” (NS, MR) aur kia army ! sab ke haath mai danda, aur awam aagay ko jhuki howi, sab khilwaar karo
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you are right , Living in political or commercial fields depends how can you keep them happy
Malik Riaz ‘was’ a tool/partner of previous army establishment bosses .
Everyone knew about the relations are not good among present and previous
They don’t want to create any bad example of doing something with their men
So as usual bloody civilians are target
Corruption or looting is not any less in KPK and Punjab or federation but takht e Lahore people are ruling so they are free
Make example of Sindh and Baluchistan
Pakistan rahay na rahay , in ko kia
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^ corruption occurs everywhere agreed. But the governance system is not bad elsewhere, even current Baluchistan regime is better than PPP ruled Sindh. Insha Allah the country will remain, PPP and its allies did try their utmost to choke the city economically as well as through daily target killings (in the dozens). We can already see the results of the current operations with the decline in target killings, PPP takes credit for the same when it suits them.
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It’s obvious that PPP supporters have no issue with PPP looting Sindh, I wouldn’t want these leaches back in looting the country.
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Just tonight
عروسه سلمان
[RIGHT]Dear Establishment Rangers Agencies Punjab & KPK looking you
کچھ نظرکرم ان پرہوسندھ بلوچستان کواب بخش دیں [/RIGHT]
عروسه سلمان @Uroosa_Salman[RIGHT]دیکهیں کاشفکےپی میں پولیس اور یوتهیا کی کارکردگی دونون برابر هیںکان سانپ@abidifactor[/RIGHT]
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Just try to know the real corrupts Looters and killers
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PPP and its democratic leader Zardari, Will wala
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There’s nothing called government in Sindh, obviously as PPP is ruling there.
Sindh circa 2015 - The Express Tribune
There’s a joke in Sindh: It’s called the provincial government.
Before Asif Ali Zardari let loose his tirade against the army, and before his lieutenants launched a failed attempt at damage control; before all of this came the Press Release. Yes, THE Press Release. Or is it a charge sheet? Issued on June 11 from the Headquarters Pakistan Rangers (Sindh), the document details the salient points of the briefing that Director General Rangers Major General Bilal Akbar gave to the Apex Committee on terrorism and criminal activities in the province.
If you haven’t read the press release in full, please do so now. In fact, stop reading this column, google the press release, and read from the first word to the last. That’s how important it is. That’s how relevant it is to what’s unfolding now, and all that is going to happen in the days and weeks to come.
This document could be the turning point for Sindh, its inhabitants, and the joke that calls itself the government.
Here’s why: Karachi and the rest of Sindh is one big rotten mess because those who run the province, and the metropolis, are neck deep into this rot. They are the ones who have stitched the nexus between politics, crime and corruption. For decades this unholy nexus has strengthened itself by incorporating more and more filth into the system, spinning it around official corridors and depositing the noxious silt in powerful and hard to reach places. Sickness pervaded all over and the province groaned in pain and misery.
Enter the Rangers. The Apex Committee in Sindh had become a bit of a non-starter. It was infested with shady characters sporting crooked intents, ravishing the province with their greed, avarice and intensive incompetence. It was their kind that had spent billions of rupees to construct a palatial building for the provincial assembly while moaning lack of funds to build roads, provide clean drinking water and basic sanitation. Many of these crooks were directly responsible for the pillaging of Sindh. They should have been rotting in jail. Instead, they were now sitting arrogantly on the Apex Committee.
The press release by the Rangers hit these elected crooks like a stinging slap.
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“An evil nexus of political leaders, civil servants and gang lords is involved in nurturing and sheltering organised crime and terrorism in Karachi,” said DG of Sindh Rangers. “Billions of rupees collected from extortion, land grabbing, targeted killings and rackets are flowing into the coffers of some top personalities of the Sindh province,” the press release quoted him as telling the Apex Committee. The press release put the volume of crime economy at over Rs230 billion a year!
According to the report in this newspaper, the DG Rangers said that besides heinous crimes, well-organised networks were running illegal marriage halls, illegal parking, match-fixing and beggar mafias. The funds from terrorist activities are distributed among the various factions of the criminal gangs of Lyari besides corrupt politicians and bureaucrats. Political parties, city district government, district administration, construction companies, estate agents and police officials are among the land-grabbing mafia. The statement said that all these work in a coordinated manner and most of them are patronised by a big political party of Karachi, while other political leaders and builders are also involved in this racket.**
Sadly, there’s nothing much left for the imagination. But plenty left to chew over. Zardari’s outburst has laid bare a predicament that holds this country — and Sindh in particular — in its jaws: who will hold to account the rapacious elected elite within a broken system? The sickness on display in Karachi and the rest of Sindh, the blatant criminality and the abuse of power by the rulers and their henchmen, and the absolute disaster that the democrats have perpetuated on this land — all this is a harsh reminder that the system that we boast of is clearly failing in this province. In Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa it may be delivering to an extent, but in Sindh it has been mauled to death. What now?**
The province and its metropolis have gone to hell, but Zardari wants to be left alone. Really? Is Sindh his jagir? Or that of the MQM for that matter? But who checks them if the electorate doesn’t? The executive and legislature are under their thumbs and the judiciary can only do so much and no more. Should then things be allowed to carry on as they are? Should rampant lawlessness and a complete breakdown of governance be accepted as a price we should happily pay for the privilege of voting once every five years?
Or given no other choice, should Article 234 of the Constitution kick in?
“If the President, on receipt of a report from the Governor of a province is satisfied that a situation has arisen in which the Government of the Province cannot be carried on in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, the President may … by Proclamation, assume to himself, or direct the Governor of the Province to assume on behalf of the President, all or any of the functions of the Government of the Province…”
Yes, Governor’s Rule.
What then? Governor’s Rule has been imposed in Sindh in the past too without solving much. But this time it’s the Rangers in charge, backed by a determined army led by a general who appears to mean serious business. Governor’s Rule will work only if the Rangers and the army can smash the networks that run the deep criminal nexus detailed in the press release. Governor’s Rule will work only if the Rangers and the army can ruthlessly pursue the big fish, and produce enough evidence to get convictions in the courts of law. It will work if politicised criminality and criminalised politics can be culled like diseased animals, never to be resurrected again.
But if this is not possible, then I’m afraid the province of Sindh should curse its fate and resign to living and dying under a criminal and corrupt system run by unaccountable robber barons who will rule this land till perpetuity.
Or till there’s nothing left to rule.
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What about the forests? We have enough water logging and sea erosion as it is in Sindh. Where in the world do armies get land anyway? Heck, America should be doing it considering they can swallow thousands of Pakistan if it was a sound idea.
SMH
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Allah