ISLAMABAD, March 7: Army officials and bureaucrats, who were occupying parliament lodges before general elections, were found defaulters of Rs3.6 million, a data provided to the National Assembly by the interior ministry showed.

The data was provided on a question raised by Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali.

The data confirmed that the dues of army officials and bureaucrats were 100 per cent higher than the dues which have to be paid by some politicians. The politicians are defaulters of Rs1.6 million.

According to the data, some 71 army officials and bureaucrats are the defaulters of accommodation charges and utility dues while some of them had also taken away some precious items while leaving the lodges.

Army officials and bureaucrats have evacuated the lodges for the newly-elected members of parliament.

According to the data, Ikramullah Ghori has to pay Rs5,600 arrears, Aammer Khan (Rs2,000), Mohsin Habib Warraich (Rs8,825), Dr Musaddiq Malik (19,503), Rashid Khan (a refrigerator and Rs6,000), Maj Imran Jehangir (electric heater and Rs1,165), Javed Iqbal Mirza (Rs9,783), Syed Hameed Qadir (Rs240), Major Saeed (Rs6,918), Lt Col Haider Ali (Rs69,740), Major Rehmat Ali (Rs3259), Lt Col Sherazullah Chaudhry (Rs2,980), Col Zameer Bhatti (Rs26,716), Zeeshan Feroze (Rs7,350), Azmat Saeed (Rs6,680), Zafar Abbas Luck (Rs39,743), Zafar Iqbal (Rs18,109), Zulfiqar Ali Shah (Rs13,338), Naveed Chohan (Rs3,810), Noor Muhammad Baluch (Rs97,272), N A Shakir (Rs8,744), Munawar Akhtar Islam (gas heater Rs 3,000+Rs 63,008), Mansoor Elahi (Rs81,470), Naseer Ahmed Gilani (Rs12,600), Fida Hussain (Rs8,000), Asad Jehangiri (Rs18,412), Brigadier Munir Saeed (telephone set Rs1,000+ Rs 12,804), Brig Irshad Ali Shah (Rs13,000), Malik Muhammad Feroz (Rs1.165), Col Salik Nawaz (Rs20,874), Abdul Haleem Jadran (Rs26,2217), Syed Asif Ali Shah (Rs9,130), Mukhtar Ahmed (Rs 5,526), Brig Mian Khalid Habib (Rs19,916), Aftab Nabi (Rs4,041), Maj Asad Naveed Ashraf (Rs11,253), Shahid Mehmood Rs (9,622), Sahibzada Riaz Noor (Rs20,336), S M Awais (Rs17,903), Ch Muhammad Sarwar (Rs 11,930), Mather Inayat Rana (electric heater Rs 1165+20,525), Sakhiullah Tareen (Rs16,957), M Rafique Dogar (Rs 18,638), Zafar Awan (refridgerator Rs6,000+193), Ch Muhammad Ali Rs (20,009), Ali Sarfaraz Hussain (Rs16,018), Khalid Qureshi (Rs2,350), Dr Bela Jameel (Rs4,000), Lt Col Muhammad Tufail (Rs14,650), Ms Sher Bano (Rs12,038), Lt Col Razi Kazmi (Rs2,200), Maj Nadeem Arif (Rs17,365), Sheikh Suleman (Rs8,226), Dr S T K Naeem (Rs1,914), Dr Rukhsana Anjum (Rs738), Zaheeruddin Asif (Rs604,295) and Major Haroon Rashid (Rs3,087).

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