BAHAWALPUR, April 16: The committee, which is processing the distribution of the property of late Nawab Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi (the fifth), will auction the left-over articles - furniture, broken sofa sets, old carpets and photograph frames - on April 25.

The committee, headed by Justice Qadeeruddin Ahmad Chaudhry (retired), decided it at a meeting held at the circuit house on Friday. It also decided to gear up the process and go ahead with its earlier plan to auction the articles retrieved from the palace only within the late Nawab's heirs and descendants. A sub-committee, headed by EDO (revenue) Abdul Ghafoor Bhatti, will supervise the auction.

Justice Qadeer will decide about the auction of Rolls Royce cars at a meeting today (Saturday). Members of the family will attend the meeting. The committee chairman said the mode of the cars' auction could be changed only if all the legal heirs demanded this to him in black and white.

He expressed satisfaction over the development in the project and pledged that he would strictly follow the distribution formula of the Justice Abdul Salaam Shakoor committee, which followed the Shariat law.

He told the committee members that the encroachments on the late Nawab's property, if any, would be removed. The chairman is learnt to have directed the sub-committee to complete the mutation work of the immovable property within a month.