offering them plots. Some reject this kind of offer but ‘honest’ DMG officers always accept such offers. Those who reject such offers do so because they are awarded two luxurious plots and other benefits in the federal capital, equivalent to Rs100 million, and this is in addition to all other government benefits during the job and after retirement. There are no plots for the poor and low ranking employees or officers. A three-member Supreme Court bench headed by the then Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was told in May 2013 that only 67 plots were allotted to low-ranking police officers out of thousands of plots in NPF.
When NPF Islamabad sector E-11 residents pressed for land for the mosque, a small 10 marla plot was allocated for mosque on a sewerage water nullah. Schools’ plots were commercialised. Land for community centre and parks land was converted into plots to appease the ruling elite. The senior bureaucrat was offered plot a few weeks back. He accepted it and sold it off immediately.
The NPF official while talking to The News said: “I state on oath that my extension has nothing to do with the allotment of a plot to the senior bureaucrat.”
Zafar Qureshi, an officer of Police Service of Pakistan who also remained Managing Director of NPF while talking to The News confirmed that though some senior bureaucrats are offered plots by NPF in Islamabad but in fact there is no rule of NPF which allows allotment of such plots. Qureshi revealed that after the martyrdom of police officer Sifwat Ghayur who was commandant FC in KPK he had allotted a 10-marla plot to the family of martyr. Qureshi disclosed that the plot allotted to the family of Sifwat Ghayur Shaheed was the only plot that he allotted during his whole tenure. Qureshi said that under the same practice, every MD of NPF also got a plot but he never allotted himself any plot.
Officials at NPF confirmed to The News that they denied plots to the widows and orphan children of many shaheed police officers saying “NO PLOTS ARE AVAILABLE” but plots are always created to appease the bosses.