October 12, 2007	Friday	Ramazan 29, 1428

ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will not lose their costly agriculture farms in Islamabad as the city managers have cleared them from any violation, sources told Dawn on Thursday.

The sources said the city managers had no courage to take any action against influential people for turning their agriculture farms into palatial farmhouses.

It has been learnt that like many other influential people the two rulers are also violating the CDA laws by not using their farms for agricultural purposes. At present, their farms are lying vacant.

According to the CDA laws, 80 per cent of an agriculture farm has to be utilised for cultivation, while on the remaining 20 per cent area, residential buildings can be built.

When contacted, a senior CDA official said the president and prime minister were not violating the CDA laws and agricultural products were being cultivated in their farms. “Although we have not completed the survey of agriculture farms owned by the two leaders, we know that there is no violation being committed on the farms,” he added. He said a total of 25 farms were not under any use and their lease-holders had been asked to develop the farms in four years.—Staff Reporter