ISLAMABAD, Feb 16: The government has placed before the Senate record pertaining to allotment of 502 plots to bureaucrats under a discretionary quota in Federal Government Employees Housing Scheme (Phase-I) in October 1988.

The record placed before the upper house by the minister for housing and works showed that plots worth millions of rupees were allotted to bureaucrats at prices ranging from Rs37,420 to a maximum of Rs150,000 in sectors I-8/2, I-8/3, I-8/4, G-11/1 and G-11/2.

Of the total 502 plots allotted in 1988, the bureaucrats got 42 plots in I-8/2, 151 in I-8/3, 130 in I-8/4, 52 in G-11/1 and 127 in G-11/2. Senior officials to whom plots were allotted in different sectors at a cost of Rs150,000 with their designations at that time include the following:

Sector I-8/2: Hassan Zaheer (secretary cabinet division); Arshad Farooq (Member Planning Commission); Usman Ali Isani (secretary food and agriculture); Salim Abbas Jillani (secretary ministry of defence); Muhammad Iqbal Rajput (DG Pak PWD); Jalees Ahmed Siddiqui (JS ministry of housing and works); Abdul Wahab (additional secretary ministry of environment); A Rashid K Baloch (JS Works Division); RA Aknund (secretary ministry of finance);

Sector I-8/3: Aminullah Chaudhry (managing director Punjab Mineral Development Corporation); F.K Bandial (secretary States and Frontier Regions); Mohammad Waliullah Khan (advisor conservation archeology Lahore); Badruddin Zahidi (secretary women division); Ijaz Ahmed (additional secretary ministry of production); Pervez Ahmed Butt (additional secretary ministry of science and technology); Mashkoor Ahmed Khan (special secretary establishment division); Ali Akhtar (divisional superintendent Pakistan railways); Aftab Hussain Syed (Consulate General Pakistan, ministry of foreign affairs); Fariduddin Ahmed (secretary Punjab tourism department); Mian Muhammad Ashiq (chief engineer Pakistan Railways); M. Salman Farooqi (additional secretary special education and social welfare division); Sheikh Ejaz Alam (chief instructor National Institute for Public Administration); Muhammad Iqbal Khan Sumbal (member FPSC); Muhammad Ashraf Sheikh (secretary ministry of railways); Hafeez Randhawa (joint secretary ministry of commerce); Habibullah Khan Niazi (deputy inspector general Police); Capt Syed Naseer Ahmed (OSD BPS 21 Establishment Division); HA Sherazy (Collector Customs); MW Memon (chairman national development finance corporation); Maqsood Ahmed Sheikh (additional secretary ministry of production); M Mubeen Ahsan (member CBR); Shamsuddin Qureshi (secretary youth affairs division); Sultan Farooqi (associate professor JPMC); S M Ismail (joint secretary ministry of local government and rural development); Hafeezur Rehman (deputy secretary manpower division); M Anwar Zahid (chief secretary Punjab); Ismail Patel (PR Information Officer PID); Muhammad Rasool Khan (Superintending Engineer PWD); Ahmed Sadik (secretary ministry of food and agriculture); Shafaat Ali Malik (chief architect PWD); Ghulam Hussain Memon (superintending engineer PWD); Abdul Qayyum (director IB); K U Farooqi (secretary cabinet division); Mian Tayyab Hussain (additional secretary finance division); Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan (additional secretary President secretariat); Amir Turab Ali (collector custom); Syed Mohibullah Shah (additional secretary PM secretariat); Muhammad Samiullah (JS cabinet division); Aziz Ahmed Khan (DG ministry of foreign affairs); Khan Ahmed Goraya (JS NA Secretariat); Taj Muhammad (JS finance division); Muhammad Akmal (collector customs); Malik Lala Yesrab (JS PM Secretariat); Taufiq Fehmi (additional secretary Cabinet Division); SMA Khairi (ambassador); Nazar Abbass Siddiqui (HBFC chairman); Shaukat Fariq (DG foreign affairs);

Sector I-8/4: Sultan Hameed (administrator general Zakat); Shaukat Ali Bukhari (ADBP director); G Yazdani Khan (CBR chairman); Mushtaq Ahmed (commandant police); Shamsul Mulk (DG Wafaqi Mohtasib); Muhammad Munir Khan (chief engineer Sui Northern); Shakeel Ahmed (JS tourism division); Kalim Dil Khan (chairman narcotics control board); Zaheer Sajjad (MD Punjab Industrial Development Board); Siraj Shamsuddin (JS PM secretariat); Tariq Khokhar (ASP police); Waliullah Khan Kheshgi (ambassador); Masihul Islam (GM Sui Northern Gas); Rustam Shah Mohmand (home secretary NWFP); Jaffar Mohammand ( DMD PTDC); Mohammad Akram Sheikh (CEO ministry of production); Aslam Iqbal (additional secretary ministry of petroleum); Syed Shamsul Haq (JS finance division); Baland Akhtar (JS women's division); Riaz Ahmed Malik (collector customs); Muhammad Izhar Khan (JS ministry of industries); Iqbal Mueen (additional secretary ministry of commerce); SM Mattu (National Tarrif Commission director); S Barkatullah (EOBI chairman); Izahrul Haq (ambassador); Sheikh Muhammad Sadiq (accountant general of Pakistan); Abdul Kabir (DG foreign affairs).

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