ISLAMABAD: Senior bureaucrats and top police officers are being allocated one-kanal plots in the upscale Sector E-11 at remarkably low prices.
The prices of the one-kanal residential plots in the prestigious E-11 sector for government officials are a staggering 1.5 per cent above the current market rates.
The allocation of these plots has sparked controversy, with key figures such as Aftab Akbar Durrani, former interior secretary, along with senior police officers, including Inspector General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Akhtar Hayat Khan, Dr Usman Anwar, Inspector General of Punjab, and Sabir Ahmed, Managing Director of the National Police Foundation, being involved in the distribution process.
Similarly, a plot measuring one kanal was allotted to additional IG Punjab Bilal Siddique Kamyana, currently posted as the capital city police officer, Lahore, in the NPF Scheme in Sector O-9 for Rs500,000 whereas the market price was Rs30 million.
NPF Managing Director Sabir Ahmed, when contacted, defended the move to allot the plots at the old price, claiming that the allotment had been made in accordance with the policy of the foundation.
He explained that the NPF rules allowed the management to cancel a plot lying vacant in the society for decades and whose owners’ whereabouts were unknown. He said the owners of these seven plots were not in contact with the foundation for the last several years, therefore, the management canceled them and allotted them to the “eligible officers” of the Police Service of Pakistan.
