\u2022 Watchdog says \u2018illegal dealings\u2019 between officials, Bahria Town involving over 17,000 acres cost exchequer Rs708 billion
\n\u2022 Ex-CM Qaim, Sharjeel Memon, Malik Riaz, and senior govt officials among suspects<\/p>\n
KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau has filed a reference against former Sindh chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, senior minister Sharjeel Memon, property tycoon Malik Riaz, and several senior government officials for converting, exchanging, and transferring government land to Bahria Town.<\/p>\n
The accountability watchdog alleged that the entire hierarchy of the executive, the revenue board, and the Malir Development Authority (MDA) had conspired to cede valuable public property to an individual for some gains. The NAB investigating officer filed the reference before the administrative judge of accountability courts Karachi and named 33 individuals as accused.<\/p>\n
It maintained that the accused in active connivance grabbed 17,671.87 acres under the grab of \u201cadjustment\/exchange\/consolidation in 2013-14 in sheer violation of law for Bahria Town, causing a colossal loss of over Rs708.08 billion to the national exchequer.<\/p>\n
The reference names former Sindh Board of Revenue member Ahmed Baksh Narejo; land utilisation department\u2019s secretaries Saqib Ahmed Soomro and Mohammad Javed Hanif Khan; then MDA director general Mohammad Sohail; Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) directors general Manzoor Qadir and Agha Maqsood Abbas; deputy commissioner (East) Kazi Jan Mohammad; various assistant commissioners; Bahria Town CEO Ahmed Ali Riaz; vice chairman Zain Malik; and others.<\/p>\n
As per the reference, the inquiry was started in 2015 after a complaint about usurpation of the government land by Bahria Town for \u2018Bahria Town Karachi\u2019 project in Malir, near the M-9 Motorway. The inquiry was subsequently upgraded into an investigation in 2016.<\/p>\n
The reference said CM Qaim Ali Shah connived with co-accused by not approving the \u201cSummary for CM\u201d dated Jan 12, 2016, forwarded by the prosecution witness\/the-then member Board of Revenue Sindh Mohammad Waseem for cancellation of earlier issued on Dec 26, 2013, by Ahmed Baksh Narejo in violation of MDA Act, 1993.<\/p>\n
On the contrary, CM Qaim Ali Shah with mala fide intentions directed the local government department secretary to issue a corrigendum on May 5, 2016. The CM neither had jurisdiction nor was competent to issue such corrigendum, it claimed.<\/p>\n
Sharjeel Memon, a senior minister in the incumbent government, was the MDA chairman and local government department minister at the time and he approved \u201cregulation regarding consolidation\/adjustment\/exchange of private Kabuli survey lands & state land alleged by the board of revenue etc.\u201d in violation of Section 49 of the MDA Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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