The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has reversed its last week’s decision to refer a case to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) about a housing society launched by Punjab senior minister Aleem Khan. Facebook/File
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has reversed its last week’s decision to refer a case to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) about a housing society launched by Punjab senior minister Aleem Khan.
The decision came after meetings with the National Assembly speaker on Thursday and in the wake of a ‘stay’ order given by the Supreme Court against the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) judgement declaring Aleem Khan’s housing society, M/s Park View City, illegal.
Civic agency chief says firm being hired to develop master plan, submit proposal to legalise residential schemes. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has advised the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to apply the Banigala regularisation model to legalise illegal housing societies in Islamabad.
The PAC meeting, which was convened with Rana Tanveer Hussain in the chair, was informed by the audit authorities that unauthorised construction of Ghauri Town on 6,000 kanals had inflicted Rs30 billion loss to the national exchequer.
CDA Chairman Amer Ali Ahmed, on the other hand, said action had been taken against the private society, but since it was not a high-end scheme and people from the lower middle class resided there, the civic agency had been considerate towards it.
Regularisation of illegalities has become a norm in the federal capital and it must end “if rule of law has to be restored”, observed Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah in a judgement. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: Regularisation of illegalities has become a norm in the federal capital and it must end “if rule of law has to be restored”, observed Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah in the judgement passed in a case pertaining to Punjab Senior Minister Aleem Khan’s private housing society.
“It has been consistently observed and the same is the case in the petitions in hand that the Authority and public functionaries allow glaring violations of the law by looking the other way and once the damage has been done then resort is made to the policy of regularisation of the illegalities and blatant abuses of the law,” the court order said.
Regularisation of illegalities has become a norm in the federal capital and it must end “if rule of law has to be restored”, observed Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah in a judgement. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: Regularisation of illegalities has become a norm in the federal capital and it must end “if rule of law has to be restored”, observed Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah in the judgement passed in a case pertaining to Punjab Senior Minister Aleem Khan’s private housing society.
“It has been consistently observed and the same is the case in the petitions in hand that the Authority and public functionaries allow glaring violations of the law by looking the other way and once the damage has been done then resort is made to the policy of regularisation of the illegalities and blatant abuses of the law,” the court order said.