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| February 12, 2003 | Wednesday | Zul Hijjah 10, 1423 |
No-trust motion against Nazim
KOHAT, Feb. 11: The councillors of Lachi rural unanimously passed a no-confidence motion against their Nazim, Abdul Haleem, on corruption charges and for his inability to clear his position before the assembly despite repeated notices.
A press release issued here said the Nazim had been found involved in misuse of his authority and approving development schemes in select areas through his blue-eyed contractors.
He was asked to clear his position by appearing before the assembly committee tasked to conduct a probe but he failed.
According to the rules and regulations of the district governments, the no-confidence motion had been referred to the district assembly which would ascertain the charges and then send it to the election commission for a final decision.
Under the district government rules, there is a provision for an appellate committee to deal with such cases but there is none in the whole of NWFP. Therefore, the matter would be discussed by the district assembly after Eid-ul-Azha and the district Nazim, who is a competent authority, would announce the decision.
If the decision is taken against the Nazim, the Naib Nazim would automatically stand disqualified, experts told Dawn on Tuesday.
DEMOLISHED: Members of an alleged land mafia demolished 31 pillars of an under-construction extension wing of the University of Information Technology here, causing a huge loss to the government on Monday.
The allegedly illegal occupants of the 4,000-acre piece of land, owned by the Pakistan Air Force, had earlier asked the government to vacate the land on which the university had been constructed.
Hundreds of local men demolished the pillars despite the attempts made by the varsity administration to stop them.
Inquiries made into the dispute by Dawn revealed that the British government had allotted the land to the tribesmen belonging to the Orakzai Agency, for a period of 100 years. On expiring of the contract, in late eighties, the government reclaimed the property and constructed the district prison and the IT university on it.
However, the occupants of the land were adamant that it still belonged to them and the government should transfer the land to them, as they had no means to buy land elsewhere and build homes again.
Mr Hassan told Dawn that the land had been given to the university by the NWFP government and the building had been inaugurated by the governor himself. However, during the inauguration ceremony of the varsity the occupants had put forward their demand to the government officials, which was disposed off according to the legal status of the property. He warned that any attempt to harm the interests of the university would be dealt with an iron hand.
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