ISLAMABAD- Transparency International Global Corruption (TIGC) Report 2008 Wednesday revealed that President Pervez Musharraf has converted army-granted farmland worth US$690,000 in Islamabad into US$10.34 million of moveable assets.
According to the TIGC Report 2008 analysis," the scale of the inroads made by the military into ‘civilian’ sectors of Pakistan’s economy, including land, construction, property, manufacturing, fertilizers, agriculture, road building, trucking etc; and that full generals enjoy individual wealth in excess of US$8.3 million,"
TI Pakistan conducted its second National Corruption Perceptions Survey from April to July 2006, indicating that the majority of respondents were of the view that corruption in Pakistan in the last three years increased by 100 per cent. The report talks about the incident where Chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had reversed the privatization of Pakistan Steel Mills to friends of highest government functionaries and actively pursued the case of the several hundred ‘missing persons’ since his appointment in June 2005. Chief Justice Ifitikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had worked to clear the backlog of cases before the Supreme Court, then standing at 25,808. He had demonstrated an independence of mind that had been missing from the Supreme Court since 1999, when General (Retd) Musharraf, having taken power, demanded that judges approve a Provincial Constitutional Order barring the court from challenging his authority on constitutional grounds, the report said.
On water corruption, the report quotes the case of US$265 million project to reline the Punjab’s canal system on which M/S Nespak of Lahore for consultancy works had provided a technical superior offer. Their quoted cost of US$6.2 million was the least expensive. In the second procurement process, which TI Pakistan monitored, the purchase of heavy earth-moving machinery and workshop equipment, as compare to the 2007 prices, with a similar procurement made earlier in 1994, even after a 15 per cent devaluation of the rupee was worthUS$10.3 million. Thus Pakistan was able to ensure saving of 22.742 percent on excavators and bulldozers over 1994 purchase costs.
Chairman of TI Pakistan, Syed Adil Gilani said that corruption in Pakistan’s water sector since decades has been one of the major causes of slow economic development, shortage of power, irrigation as well as potable water. Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) is responsible for major development, operation, distribution, enhance of dams, barrages, irrigation system, hydropower plants as well as thermal power plants, he said.
He said that Pakistan’s Indus Basin Irrigation system, the world’s largest water diversion scheme with more than 1.6 million kilometers of watercourses, is a prominent example of how corruption pervades economic development and distorts the priorities of infrastructure investment.
Pakistan’s water sector, like many of those around the world, is fraught with large and small-scale corruption, he said.
According to a 2003 and 2006 survey by Transparency International, Pakistan’s water and power development agency is perceived to be the second most corruption institution in the country.
“Close to half of more than 31,000 complaints received by Pakistan’s anti-corruption ombudsman in 2002 were related to this one institution,” Adil Gilani said and quoted the World Bank Pakistan water strategy report 2005 that admits that top positions in the country’s water bureaucracy are sold at a high price.
Re: TI Report: Musharraf liquidated Islamabad farmland
^ Do I need to bother explaining someone who thinks Musharraf never broke any laws, even the 'one coup per dictator' law? I am sure you didn't see any laws being broken, especially when the whole constitution (which is the basis of our laws) was suspended.
Re: TI Report: Musharraf liquidated Islamabad farmland
Since the Musharraf apologists are having a hard time grasping this TI report, let me just give some insights:
TI is not a law governing body nor a court, they report facts and figures, and they arent cooked up. Now buying or selling property might not be a big deal, especially for a civilian, but this report makes me wonder why the hell did the army grant $690K to its Chief to buy a so called subsidized lavish farmhouse, which by the way was illegally obtained. Regarding laws being broken, this matter was sent to the Supreme Court but our great dictator ousted the very supreme court panel (illegally) which was going to determine whether he broke any laws or not.
^ Do I need to bother explaining someone who thinks Musharraf never broke any laws, even the 'one coup per dictator' law? I am sure you didn't see any laws being broken, especially when the whole constitution (which is the basis of our laws) was suspended.
And yet you cannot even see the hundreds of illegal transactions and deals done by the Sharif brothers but get excited by some alleged improper use of farmland?
Re: TI Report: Musharraf liquidated Islamabad farmland
^ So Sharif committing an illegal transaction makes it perfectly ok for Musharraf to do the same, and go three steps ahead? No wonder no one here takes you seriously.
Re: TI Report: Musharraf liquidated Islamabad farmland
^^ well musharraf is not the first general who got the farmland from army, its given to all tom and harrys from Armed forces. right or wrong thats another issue. selling own land never been a crime in any country.
and also how can you compare the mushi with shareeeefs, they are so shareef and shreefly defaulted on billions of loans on empty asset guarantees, then mass moved dollars overnight abroad. todays DEMOcratic NS is bi product of same old army uncles.
^^ well musharraf is not the first general who got the farmland from army, its given to all tom and harrys from Armed forces. right or wrong thats another issue. selling own land never been a crime in any country.
and also how can you compare the mushi with shareeeefs, they are so shareef and shreefly defaulted on billions of loans on empty asset guarantees, then mass moved dollars overnight abroad. todays DEMOcratic NS is bi product of same old army uncles.
lol I must have hit a raw nerve... First of all, I dont go by your 'facts' without findings so prove to me if any other General in the army was granted this subsidized farmhouse in Chak Shahzad worth USD 600K plus. Its about time you get out your heads out of the sand and admit Musharraf is corrupt. Also, bringing in Nawaz Sharif in this discussion (primarily because hes the one hurting your Generals ego alone these days) does not give Musharraf a get out of jail card for free.
Also, do you have any proof NS was a loan defaulter? We all know the real loan defaulters were the Chaudhry brothers, who were personally granted a pardon by the highly esteemed smuggler Shortcut Parachute Aziz Sahib.
“Others persons who got these plots include DG ISI Maj Gen Asad Nawaz Khan, Dr Anwar Aziz, Brig Sajawal Khan, Justice Javed Iqbal, Afzal Wali, Riffat Jamil Nishtar, Mohammad Shujaat Azeem (the brother of information minister Tariq Azim), Azra Wasim Sajjad, Dr Abdul Riaz, Major General S. Ali Hamid, Ms Zeba Fasih Bokhari, Sadia Hafeez Pirzada and others.”
"Following is the list of persons who were allotted these farms but sold them later:
Mehfooz Ellahi, Haji Zerwar Khan, Syed Abdul Rehman, Rana Allah Dad Khan, Maj Mohamamd Akram Khan, Ms Nasreen Akthar, Fazal Subhan Khan, DG ISI, Rasheed Ahmad Khan, Agha Aleem Ahmad, Ms Samani Rizwan, Ms Rukaya Hussain, Akthar Moeed, Mr Mohammad Ilyas, Haji Fazalur Rehman Wazir, Hasan Akthar, Ms Rodaba Shuja, Malik Mohammad Akram, Mirza Iktidar Hussain, Mr Ijaz Shafi, Riazuddin, Mr Rashid, Kh Kamran, Ms Bushara Akram, Mehboob Ellahi, Sh Azizur Rehman, Hassan Hamid, Mr Hassan Hameed, Mohammad Sarwar Khan, Ms Rani Ghulam, Mohammad Sharif, Mr Mohammad Ilyas, Mohammad Aslam Jan, Sohail Shakil, Irshad Ahmed, Anwar Saeed, Mahboobdul Haq, Ahmad Ghazal Usmani, Dr Ambreen Ahmed, Ahmed Bilal Bajwa, Javed Latif Kahloon, Suleman Corporation, Mr Sardar Zulifkar, Ms Salma Kafeel Qureshi, Sardar Zafrullah Khan, Hamayun Qureshi, Kalimur Rehman, Comd (retd.) Mehdi, S. Nasimuddin, Ch. Hashmat, Nabeeb, Miss Farhah Hussein, Ms Osma and Mustafa, Dr Anwar Aziz, Mehar Zulifkar Ali Babu, Haji Mohammad Gulbahar and others, Ms Gulzar, Ch. Abdur Rehman, Mehmood Ahmed, Col Aleemuddin, Abdul Rehman, Ms Nayyab, Brig Sajawal Khan Malik, Arshad Butt, M Ilyas, Kamal Raza, Prof Afaq Ali Khan, Mrs Shama Usman, Mian Nabeen Sami, Ms Maliha Hussain, Sher Ali Jafar, Tariq Hussain, Mohammad Hanif, Ambreen Haroon, Nisar Ahmed, Mohammad Imran Khan, Azra Sarfraz Sajad, Afaf Zohra Qadeer, Rehmanullah, Ali Haider Bilgrami, Ms Feroz Tehseen Naqvi, Major Mohammad Ali Qureshi, Usman Ahmed Janjua, Mohammad Rafiq Minhas, Mohammad Nisar, Nighat Rehman, Zohra Nasim, Shaban Askari, Rubina Qazilbash, Naz Aziz Ahmed, Maryam Ali, Muhammad Amjad, Gulrazi Shahid, Shamim Ara, Bilal Hussain, Mohammad Ahmed, Shahzad Ahmed, Mohammad Zareen Malik, Iqbal Hussain, Shireen Ansari, Ms Rifat Mani, Bashir Husain, Iram Rahim, Shamim Mehmood, Pervez Mahmood Sheikh, Afzal Wali, Haleema Haroon, Abdul Hafeez, Masood Khan, Shafiunisa, Nazar Hussain Shah, Faisal Abbas, Ms Fatima Hameed, Zamah Khawar Ansari, Zaeenul Haq, Ghazala Nargis, Ishra Iftikar, Waseem Akthar, Tajammul Hussain, Miss Sameen Siddiqu, Miss Nadia Raza Shah, Syed Mushtaq Abbas, Ch. Abdul Hameed, Begum Zohra Jalali, Mohammad Awais, Nisar Ahmed, Moin Samad Khan, Zulakaha Khanum, Shamim Khan, Ms Rohi Toyaka Ch, Ms Yamina Mittah, Abbas Hassan, Rahim Qureshi, Mudassaar Ijaz, Mohammad Irfan Ali, Ms Iffat Riaz, Ms Shaughta Ikram, Rashid Mehmood Randahwa, Shamoon Zakriya, Shamoom Zakriya, Ali Mohammad, Fazal Din, Allah Yar, Sajjad Hussain, Mohammad Banaras Sh, Amjad Ali, Ms Allah Rakhi, Mohamamd Banara, Sh Mohammad Zuliqar, Sakhwat Hussain, Mohammad Shafiq, Irfan Hameed Khali, Haroon Khan, Ali Ejaz Hussain, Javed Iftikar, Ghulam Dewan Mustafa Khalid, Summar Atta Saeed, Usman Atta Saeed, Ch. Mohammad Saeed Bhatti, Imran, Malik Sohrab, Mohammad Javed Bhatti, Mohammad Shujat Azim, Pakistan Services Limited Islamabad, Dilshad Najamuddin, Saleem Murad, Danish Qaiser, Ijaz Hussain Awan, Asad Hayat Khan, Faisal Muneer, Khalid Bilal Usmani, Nisar Nawaz Jaffar, Mohamamd Neroze Khan, Mohammad Imran Khan, Mohammad Moinuddin Khan, Chan Mahboob, Ms Tayyab Khalil, Mohammad Amin, Mehrban Khan, Mohammad Yasin, Ch. Fazal Dad, Sher Alam Masud, Ms Sakina, Jalal Din, Iftikhar Hussain, Mohammad Younis, Mohammad Ilyas, Ali Akbar, Lal Khan, Naheed Khan, Ghulam Rasool, Rukayya Khanum Soomro, Ms Ghulam Zareen, Iabql Hussain, Ms Nusrat Sultana, Abdul Hameed, Lt Col Mubarak Ahmad Malik, Ch. Mohammad Ilyas, Nazakat Ali, Khuda Bukhsh, Ch. Tariq Fazal, Ch. Ghulam Mohammad, Jahanzeb Khan Orakzai, Mohammad Afzal, Mohammad Hussain Shah, Ms Tasneem Syed Khan, Mrs Azra Sajjad, Saeed, Ghulam Abbas, Brig Fazal, Qamar Zamand, Fazal Dad, Mr Ramla Mahmood, Mehboob and Ismail, Farhan Sadiq, Begum Almas Hamid, Amjad Imran, Tanveer Aftab, Mohammad Jamil, Ch. Mohammad Ramzan Tahir, Syed Tasleem Wasti, Mrs Zeba Fasih Bukhari, Mr Naseer Ahmed, Naseer Ahmed, Sh. Abdul Majeed, Sultan Ahmed, Mian Farooq Jamal Shah, Zareen Gul, Jamshed Hanif, Shahida Nasir, Said Hafeez Pirzada, Aziz Ahmed, Mumtazur Rehman, Abdul Sattar, Raja Riaz Ahmed, Mohammad Saeed, Faisal Mumtaz, Ms Mahrukh Kamran, Azam Jan, Mohamamd Akhlaq Memon, Amir Shafi Moguhl, Aslam Khaliq, Zafar Ali Kiani, Walayat Khan, Malik Mehboob Hussain, Muhammad Ala Raza Malik, Malik Tabaruk Hussain, Mohammad Ilyas, Malik Taj Khan, Ms Khurshaid Begum, Nazakat Hussain, Haji Mohammad Zaman, Haji Mohammad Zaman, Mirza Khan and Abdul Khalid, Mohammad Fayyaz, Zahoorudin, Tariq Mahmood, Nuzhat Iqbal, Anees Hider, Mohammad Riaz, Rahanaz Hussain, Firdus Ahmed, Asif Mahmood, Tufail Anwar Abbasi, Ajmal Fakar, Ms Ghazala Nagras, Abdul Bari, Raja Javed Ashraf, Syed Akbar Alam, Syed Mohammad Hashmi, Ikramul Haq, Nadeed Bashir, MA Lodhi, Liaqat Ali, Hassan Raza, Ms Bushra Khushnood, Ms Tricon Developers, Syed Najmul Hasan Kazmi, Sharjeel Adnan, Ms Zahida Saeed, Tanveer Ilyas, Tricon Developers, Mohammad Ashraf, Shahazad Waseem, Khanzada, Tricon Developers, Mehtab Khan, Abdul Razaq, Iqbal Ghani, Foudndar and others, Syed Nasir Ali Shah, Haji Javed Islam, Mohammad Yousaf, Malik Laiqur Rehman, Gulzar Ahmed, Sh Abdul Razak, Mohammad Ashraf, Irum Zaman, Malik Tabarak Hussain, Ms Yasmin Fatima, Ms Mohammadi Begum, Dr Shoaib Shafi, Dr Rizwan Ch. Raja Mohammad Hanif Abbasi, Rajaz Shamshad Hussain, Raja Sajjad Hussain, Raja Sajjad Hussain, Mohammad Naeem Paracha, Jhangir Hussain, Syed Ali Zafar, Aftab Ahmed, Col Bashir Ali, Malik Mehrab, Aziz Begum, Fazal din, Balqees Begum, Syed Fayyaz, Faisal Aba Ali, Abdul Aziz, Nisar Ahmed, Iftikhar Rashid, Naeedm Bashir, Khasif Noorani, Ms Raeesa Rehman, Ghulsher Khan, Saeeda Mahmood, Ms Durre Najaf, Mahreen Gul, Ms Ch. Changez Akthar, Ms Nawaz Khan, Malik Saleem Raza, Nusrat Maqbll, Mohammad Ibraim, Amair Naeem Butt, Ms Hahajehab, Ch. Allah Din Bhatti, Rashid Aktar Chaughtai, Mohammad Sadiq Bhatti, Haji Abdul Razak, Ms Mehrraj Ent, Ms Mohammad Youqub Sughra, Khalilur Rehman, Mohammad Younis, Saifur Rehman, Mian Mohammad Afzal, Haji Gul Ahmed, Mian Abdul Rasheed, Naeem Ghani, Khalid Aziz, Mohammad Irshad, Shafaul Haq, Rashid Khan, Rajaz Mohammad Arshad, Muhammad Ishfaq, Faqir Syed Munir, Brig Abdul Ahed, Dr Fazal Karim, Sabir Khan, Ms Shamim Afridi, Legal heirs of Bajwa, Ms Majabeen Javed, Mureed Hussain, Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Ahmed Ghazal Usmani, Syed Athar Ali Shad, Ijza Shafi Gilani, Iqbal Jan, Raja Jamshed Afandi, Maj General M Ashraf Khan, Mohammad Gulzar, Ms Usman Nawaz Khokar, Mohammad Zaheer, Civil Aviation Authority, Ms Zaibun Nisa, Mian Mohammad Yaqoob, Major Majeed Khan, Syed Agha Faiz Mehdi, Raja Adlat Khan, Mohammad Khan, Tariq Saleem, Attiqur Rehman, Zafar Rahim, Naeedudin Mian, Sh Mohammad Latif, SA Qadir Gilani, Dr Mohamamd Sadiq, Muzaffar Khanum, Khawaja Farrukh Majeed, Zahid Hussain, Aziz Sultan, Mohammad Ilyas Khan, Zahoor Ahmed Khan, Asim Nazeer, Zahoor Ahmed Khan, Qasim Hayat, Malik Ghulam Abbas, Adnan Bashir, Ms Rahat Khabum, Irfanul Haq, Khurshed Hayat, Aamara Hayat, Ch. Mohamamd Iqbal, Abdul Rauf Khan, Col Farooq Rashid, Brig Mohammad Hussain, Brig Sadiq Qureshi, Major General Farhat Ali Burki, Maj General Attaur Rehman, Bilala Hussain, Raza Rehman, Anwar Aziz, Hamid Khursheed, Ms Surrya Akthar, Government of Punjab."
Alhamdulilallah. This is excellent news. With economy looking bleak, and no sign of the govt trying to govern, it is a good time to liquidate some of the assets. I recommend others do the same. :k:
or some other liquid instruments = Moveable asset