ISLAMABAD, April 27: The government has allotted plots to 61 high court judges in G-14, an under-developed residential sector in Islamabad, Housing Minister Syed Safwanullah told the National Assembly, here on Friday.
In a written reply to a question raised by Bilqees Saif, the minister said the plots had been allotted by the Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation.
Of the 61 judges who obtained plots, 43 belong to the Lahore High Court (LHC), eight are from the Peshawar High Court (PHC), six from the Sindh High Court (SHC), two from the Balochistan High Court (BHC) and one from the Azad Jammu and Kashmir High Court (AJKHC).
The housing minister told Dawn that although residential sectors of FGEHF were opened to provide accommodation to federal government employees, plots there are also offered to judges and journalists, under their prescribed quotas.
Contrary to its own rules, the government has recently allotted plots to all federal secretaries and grade-22 officials, also in sector G-14, although most of them already owned a plot in Islamabad in the government schemes.
The following is the list of high court judges who have been provided offer letters for plots in Phase-IV in G-14: Justice Khalid Paul Khawaja, Justice Sheikh Abdul Razzaq, Justice Rana Muhammad Arshad Khan, Justice Muhammad Ashraf, Justice Muhammad Roshan Essani, Justice Mansoor Ahmad, Justice Muhammad Ghani, Justice Muhammad Zafar Yasin, Justice Parvez Ahmad, Justice M Naeemullah Khan Sherwani of LHC, Justice Qazi Ehsanullah Qureshi of PHC, Justice Bashir Mujahid of LHC, Justice Malik Hamid Saeed of PHC, Justice Farrukh Lateef of LHC (Multan Bench), Justice Tanvir Bashir Ansari of LHC, Justice Rustam Ali Malik of LHC, Justice Syed Jamshed Ali of LHC, Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad of SHC, Justice S Ali Aslam Jafri of SHC, Justice Shahazad Akbar Khan of PHC, Justice Shaikh Abdul Rashid of LHC, Justice Muhammad Sadiq Leghair of SHC, Justice Muhammad Akram Baitu of LHC, Justice Muhammad Mujibullah Siddiqui of SHC, Justice Fazlur Rehamn Khan of PHC, Justice Muhammad Akhtar Shabbir of LHC (Lahore Bench), Justice Syed Zawwar Hussain Jaffer of SHC, Justice Chaudhary Ijaz Ahmad of LHC, Justice Mohammad Sayeed Akhtar of LHC, Justice Syed Manzoor Gilani of AJKHC, Justice Muhammad Farruki Mahmud of LHC, Justice M Muzammal Khan of LHC, Justice Ali Nawaz Chowhan of LHC, Justice Mahmood Akhter Shahid Siddiqui LHC, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali of LHC, Justice Mian Hamid Farooq of LHC, Justice Sardar Muhammad Aslam of LHC, Justice Sheikh Hakim Ali of LHC, Justice Syed Sakhi Hussain Bukhari of LHC, Justice Rao Naeem Hashim Khan of LHC, Justice Tariq Pervez of PHC, Justice M Javed Buttar of LHC, Justice Khawaja Mohammad Sharif of LHC, Justice Maulvi Anwarul Haque of LHC, Justice Zia Pervez of SHC, Justice Abdul Shakoor Paracha of LHC, Justice Waseem Sikandar of LHC, Justice M Bilal Khan of LHC, Justice Syed Zahid Hussain of LHC, Justice Nasirul Mulk of PHC, Justice Sarmad Talal Osmany of SHC, Justice Mohammad Khalid Alvi of LHC, Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry of High Court, Justice Akhtar Zaman Malghani of BHC, Justice Tallat Qayyum Qureshi of PHC, Justice Mian Mohammad Najumuzzaman of LHC, Justice Dost Mohammad Khan of PHC, Justice Ahmad Khan Lasher of BHC, Justice Mian Saqib Nisar of LHC, Justice Ammanullah Khan of LHC and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa of LHC.