ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has booked officials of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for alleged land fraud, as overseas Pakistanis continue to bear the brunt of property disputes involving influential individuals in the federal capital.
In a major development, the FIA’s Anti-Corruption Circle registered cases against a deputy director and a dealing assistant for illegally issuing No Demarcation Certificates (NDC) for a farmhouse which was already under litigation since 2022. The officials were charged under sections 420, 468, 471, 109 PPC read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1947.
According to the FIR, the accused officials acted “with malafide intentions” and “concealed the fact that the subject plot was already under litigation” while processing the transfer. The dealing assistant was found to have submitted a proposal categorically stating that there was no restriction, court case, or NAB inquiry against the plot — a claim that was patently false.
The deputy director also failed to check the relevant file and approved the issuance of NDC for the disputed plot.
The transfer was eventually executed in favour of Irum Kousar, wife of complainant of Norwegian national Raja Sajjad Rabbani, who later discovered he was deprived of his right to transfer or sell the property due to the concealed litigation.
“The pattern is deeply concerning,” said a legal expert familiar with property disputes in Islamabad.
“CDA officials, who are supposed to be custodians of land records, have become instruments in facilitating illegal transfers of disputed properties. Overseas Pakistanis and unsuspecting buyers are being trapped in litigation.”
In another case that has come to light, a Pakistani-origin UK national has been dragged into a farmhouse dispute currently pending before the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC).
Advocate Kashif Ali Malik, representing Ch. Saqib Tassadaq in the case related to a farmhouse in Orchard Scheme, Murree Road, Islamabad, revealed how the overseas Pakistani was entangled in litigation without his knowledge.
According to court documents, the decree related to this property was obtained through proceedings conducted behind the applicant’s back, through “deliberate fraud, collusion, concealment of material facts, misrepresentation, and non-joinder of indispensable parties, rendering the proceedings fundamentally defective and coram non judice.”
The FCC has recently taken cognizance of this matter.
In a glaring instance of similar malpractice, Mohammad Rafique Butt, a resident of Oslo, Norway, found his plot in the National Police Foundation (NPF) Housing Scheme cancelled despite having deposited all the dues.
The plot in Sector E-11, currently valued at approximately Rs110 million, was subsequently allotted to incumbent Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Lahore Bilal Siddique Kamyana for about Rs1.5 million — a rate fixed before the year 2000.
The sessions court has issued a stay order and halted construction work on the plot. Mr Kamyana had sold the plot days after the allotment; therefore, Mr Butt has also cited the present allottee, who started construction, as a respondent.
In a similar case, retired Deputy Inspector General Shahid Iqbal, who resides in Canada, also had his E-11 plot cancelled and allotted to Deputy Inspector General Mohsin Ali, who was serving as the NPF director at the time of allotment. Mr Iqbal has also filed a legal suit in the civil court.
As per details, Mr Kamyana and Mr Mohsin Ali, other senior officers, including former IG Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Akhtar Hayat Khan, FIA Director General Dr Usman Anwar and DIG Karim Khan also received one-kanal plots in E-11.
Former NPF Managing Director Sabir Ahmed, himself an allottee of a one-kanal plot in E-11 under similar circumstances, has previously defended the policy, claiming that NPF rules allow cancellation of plots lying vacant for decades and their re-allotment to “eligible officers” of the Police Service of Pakistan at the original old price.
Published in Dawn, June 23rd, 2026