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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders have rejected all allegations of selling government land during the tenure of the last government and have condemned the publication of news items in this regard in a section of Press. The stance was reiterated Saturday by MQM Standing Committee members, Babar Ghouri, Muhammad Ali Brohi and Safwanullah. They were addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club(KPC).
Babar Ghouri said that “table stories” by some journalists about corruption to the tune of millions of rupees by former ministers in selling government residential plots were baseless.
He said that government residential plots in the Martin Quarters and Jacob Lines vicinities, and some other areas were reserved for the government employees. He said MQM always supported and raised a voice in favour of the rights of poor and thus the allegation of selling government plots by former ministers were not true.
“During our tenure we distributed ownership rights of houses to those who were really deserving,” Ghauri said, adding that Safwanullah had presented this suggestion to the then Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, and directed all departments to issue such certificates to the deserving people, but meanwhile, the caretaker government was formed and this process came to a halt.
Muhammad Ali Brohi, Chairman, Senate Standing Committee, said that a meeting in this regard was to be held on May 21, in which this matter would be discussed. The quota for the allotment of plots was for the four provinces but it was ignored by the caretaker government, he charged.
He said these houses were built in 1947 and their estimated life was 10 years. He said after a passage of 10 years, in 1958, a summary was presented in this regard but no action was taken. He said in 2002, when the MQM raised the issue in the cabinet, it was presented to Choudhry Shujaat and a sub-committee of the cabinet approved recommendations in this regard. A survey of plots was also carried out.
The MQM leaders, condemning the news item, demanded that the Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, initiate a probe in this regard.
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