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4 National <strong>May</strong> 3:Copy of Layout 1 5/26/16 10:23 PM Page 1<br />
4<br />
Tuesday, <strong>May</strong> 3, <strong>2016</strong><br />
National<br />
Real estate brokers protest against<br />
corrupt CDA officials, several detained<br />
KARACHI: Head office: 509, Land Mark Plaza, I.I Chundrigar Road, Karachi, Pakistan.<br />
Ph: +9221-32214988- 32214990, Fax: +9221-32214989<br />
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Chief Editor: Muhammad Taqi Alvi<br />
Associate Editor: Ali Razavi - Hyderabad Bureau Chief: Abbas Kassar<br />
ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI<br />
Land is encroached by, and calls for punishment<br />
against, some of the biggest land lords in Pakistan.<br />
Others are small frys, many directly or indirectly<br />
under their cover. Until these corrupt and criminals are punished,<br />
the small and big land owners will have a free hand to<br />
grab more land. This keeps people and their entire families<br />
enslaved, along with bonded labor for more inhuman as well<br />
as dehumanizing activities. These criminal activities have not<br />
stopped. But these activities can be stopped. It simply needs<br />
true Pakistanis to end any and all evils and reinstate goodness<br />
in and for fellow human beings.<br />
Issues of land and corruption are intricately linked. Over<br />
the recent times, increasing demand for land has made the<br />
sector more vulnerable to corrupt abuse by those in a position<br />
to own or control land.<br />
The stakes have been raised over land not only in relation<br />
to large-scale land acquisitions, but also for who gets to register<br />
their title and secure their rural or urban land in the first<br />
place.<br />
The social and environmental fall-out has been significant,<br />
with millions of people turfed off land that they have traditionally<br />
lived on or farmed, and forests and eco-systems flattened<br />
through the industrialisation of land use.<br />
Tackling land grabbing effectively requires addressing the<br />
corruption that pervades the allocation and governance of<br />
land. The trouble is that too often experts working on land<br />
grabbing and corruption do so in siloes. The framing and terminology<br />
used by these two groups differ greatly, and both<br />
pursue different national and international processes. That gap<br />
stands in need to be bridged.<br />
Corruption enables land grabbing in a number of ways. It<br />
can be simply transactional – when government officials<br />
accept bribes from a company to gain access to land, or to<br />
look the other way if they’re behaving badly. When it gets<br />
trickier is when corruption is endemic, and institutionalised<br />
within government.<br />
This can mean policies and central state functions are<br />
skewed so that leaders can enrich themselves at the expense<br />
of the public good.<br />
In situations like that government decisions about land use<br />
aren’t based on recognition of rights, on sustainable development<br />
or long-term economic growth – land is handed to whoever<br />
has the best connections or is willing to pay the highest<br />
price. Perversely, this then feeds further corruption. Judges<br />
often require bribes to make the “right” decision when victims<br />
try using the courts to get their land back. While land, once<br />
grabbed, provides revenues to business and political elites,<br />
which consolidates their power even further.<br />
Land is different from other natural resources because it’s<br />
more than just a factor of production - it’s self-identity. It’s<br />
where ancestors are buried, it’s a place of spiritual worship<br />
and most of all, it’s home. So when people lose their land<br />
because of corruption, the socio-economic impacts are only<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
Need To Root Out Corruption<br />
Through Actions Not Words<br />
OPINION<br />
the start.<br />
The impunity granted to political and business elites as a<br />
result of grand corruption can so infect society that it can be<br />
hard to know where to start.<br />
Corruption is a system - we can get disheartened trying to<br />
destroy the whole thing, but even the smallest, everyday step<br />
to try to disrupt, reduce or block it is a worthwhile starting<br />
point. Also helpful are solutions presented in global events<br />
that gather together governments, civil societies, enforcement<br />
agencies, journalists and related experts to discuss ways of<br />
tackling land grabbing and corruption.<br />
Supreme Court and other concerned departments had<br />
given the provincial executioners of Sindh time deadlines to<br />
vacate land illegally occupied by government agencies and<br />
their other affiliated mafias. In one case, about 59,800 acres of<br />
government land had been occupied, adding that the<br />
encroachers included several government agencies including<br />
Housing as well as Development authorities. Out of the total<br />
59,803 acres of the land that was encroached, 52,130 acres of<br />
land were under institutional encroachment. About 2,864<br />
acres of the land was retrieved sometime back.<br />
The courts had ordered the Sindh government to vacate all<br />
the encroached state land within a few months time.<br />
Another issue was more grave: Forest land measuring<br />
1,446.46 acres was vacated on the orders of the Supreme<br />
Court but was re- encroached by the influential persons.<br />
Effective legislation and its implementation to abolish illegal<br />
land mafia occupying minorities’properties and trust land<br />
was also part of the problem. Serious concerns exist on the<br />
ineffective police investigation reports submitted before<br />
courts of law with regard to illegal land possession and the<br />
failure of administration to end illegal occupation of lands,<br />
especially of the weak segments in society. Because of ineffective<br />
laws the courts are giving stay orders for indefinite<br />
periods in these cases, which is causing delay in the provision<br />
of justice. Government's stance is to ensure that with the cooperation<br />
of the civil society, the officials are amending the<br />
existing laws especially the Illegal Possession Act, 2005.<br />
Insecure urban land rights were open to fraud. This stresses<br />
for the importance of not only campaigning for better laws,<br />
but also better law enforcement in land governance with<br />
accountability. Laws, orders, recommendations and bylaws<br />
for reforms to overcome the issue of delayed justice with<br />
regard to the continuing and unending illegal possession cases<br />
is an urgent call to be honored and fulfilled on every scale and<br />
level, from lowest to the highest officials and authorities.<br />
Punishing the small criminals will solve only part of a very<br />
big problem and therefore big criminal land lords who illegally<br />
occupy land in this country can be brought to book.<br />
Some or the other official or department, leader or ministry<br />
have got to be patriotic enough to end illegal land and real<br />
estate occupation and to administer the land justly for<br />
progress and prosperity countrywide soonest.<br />
What’s wrong with normal?<br />
By Chris Patten<br />
In Britain these days, one can’t avoid hearing and seeing more and more about the wretched campaign to spit in the<br />
face of the world (and of reality) and quit the European Union. Visiting the United States, as I recently did, provides<br />
some relief. But it comes at a price: wall-to-wall coverage of the presidential primaries.<br />
The Republican contest is almost egregiously distasteful, with the exception of the performance of Governor John<br />
Kasich of Ohio. Unfortunately, he is not going to win. His problem is simple: He is recognisably a normal human being.<br />
Watching the incendiary, invective-filled campaigns of his opponents — Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz — makes<br />
one mourn for the Grand Old Party.<br />
The first election campaign that I got involved in was some 50 years ago, in New York, where all of today’s candidates<br />
— Republican and Democrat — recently traded blows, with Trump and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton emerging<br />
triumphant. In the mid-1960s, the leaders of the state and city, Governor Nelson Rockefeller and <strong>May</strong>or John Lindsay,<br />
were Republicans, as were New York’s two senators, Kenneth Keating and Jacob Javits. These political moderates, and<br />
many other Republicans in the 1960s, still reflected the party of Abraham Lincoln in readily defined ways.<br />
For one thing, they were internationalists. For another, they believed in a partnership between government and the private<br />
sector (think of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower’s record, say, in building the US interstate highway system).<br />
Above all, they understood and identified with the integrationist project that remains the country’s continuing civilising<br />
mission (reflected in the words — E Pluribus Unum — on America’s seal).<br />
One cannot imagine those Republicans from the 1960s campaigning alongside the two leading GOP candidates today.<br />
Cruz is an ideological bruiser; Trump is just a bruiser, with no discernible ideology at all. On the other hand, I don’t imagine<br />
those former Republicans would have had any difficulty endorsing Kasich, a successful conservative governor whose<br />
primary motivation is plainly not hating people, whether in his own party or in the Democratic Party. And that appears to<br />
be the source of his weakness as a candidate. He doesn’t froth at the mouth. He seems — what a crime — blessedly sane.<br />
Apparently, normal isn’t good enough in today’s Republican Party. Acquiescence in heavily bankrolled, fearsome prejudice<br />
has left the rational and electable parts of the Republican Party in moral and political ruin.<br />
So now there is a late-in-the-day scramble by the party’s establishment to convince themselves that Cruz, an arrogant,<br />
bullying extremist, is not as ghastly as they have always told people he is. They fear him less as the party’s presidential<br />
candidate than they fear Trump. On the Democrats’ side, the battle between Senator Bernie Sanders and former secretary<br />
of state (and US senator) Hillary is nowhere near as grubby. It exposes some real issues of social equity and hostility to<br />
globalisation that need to be addressed. Watching all this close up could encourage despair. But we should not forget that,<br />
especially in the US, all politics is local. And, at the state and city level, there are still plenty of sane, decent, and intelligent<br />
elected officials trying to provide sensible leadership. And some will move on to the national stage. For example, in<br />
Los Angeles, where I spent a few days, a clever, well-educated young mayor, Eric Garcetti, combines energy, good looks,<br />
and common sense in a way that will almost certainly take him further. There must be a lot more like him, genuinely committed<br />
to public service, not to the self-aggrandising antics of some of today’s dangerous clowns.<br />
LETTER TO THE EDITOR<br />
Electricity Theft<br />
The Editor,<br />
At Last week, I gone to my old neighbor’s home which was at new Karachi Godra camp at that place I have<br />
seen unlimited electricity has been stolen, and many peoples are directly used wire in PMT’s and Kaunda hook system<br />
is used for illegal electricity connection. No any K-Electric vans came for survey and also no any electric company<br />
worker get readings of their meters, through that, those who consume electricity through illegal connections<br />
are not only a problems for the K-Electric company but it also a main cause of inaccessibility of power supply to<br />
genuine legal consumers. Many of the peoples are doesn’t pay her bills on time. It is a peak time that authorities<br />
did something to regulate and control the electricity stolen.<br />
Noor Hassan<br />
ISLAMABAD: Policemen beating the Estate Office agents who were protesting outside CDA Office.<br />
Demanding PM’s resignation on basis<br />
of allegations unfair: Ghafoor Haidari<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>May</strong> 2:<br />
Jamiat Ulema-e Islam-Fazl<br />
(JUI-F) deputy chairman<br />
Abbas Kassar<br />
HYDERABAD, <strong>May</strong><br />
2,<strong>2016</strong>: Scores of leaders and<br />
workers of various nationalist<br />
parties have joined Sindh<br />
National Tehrik saying that as<br />
their mother parties have<br />
gone idle and SNT was moving<br />
ahead for cause and rights<br />
of Sindh so they being affected<br />
by struggle of SNT have<br />
Maulana Abdul Ghafoor<br />
Haidari said it is not fair to<br />
seek resignation from the<br />
Prime Minister Nawaz<br />
Sharif on the bases of allegations.<br />
Talking to media in<br />
Rahim Yar Khan, Maulana<br />
Ghafoor criticising opposition’s<br />
campaign against<br />
Prime Minister and said<br />
until the allegation leveled<br />
against Nawaz Sharif prove,<br />
joined it. Those who joined<br />
tehrik after visiting Sindh<br />
National House here included<br />
noted nationalist leaders Lala<br />
Qurban Sodhro, who had suffered<br />
a lot in jails and torture<br />
cells in past, Mir Allahdad<br />
Talpur senior vice chairman<br />
of Jeay Sindh Inqilabi Mahaz,<br />
senior nationalist leader<br />
Zulfiqar Jatoi, G.M.Sindhi of<br />
the demand off resignation<br />
is not fair.<br />
He further said the political<br />
temperature in the county<br />
is on its peak, rallies and<br />
sit-ins are the democratic<br />
right of every party if it<br />
won’t derail the system.<br />
Lala Qurban Sodhro,<br />
Allahdad Talpur, others join SNT<br />
Four alleged<br />
gamblers held<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>May</strong> 2: The<br />
Pirwadhai police have<br />
arrested four alleged gamblers.<br />
On tip-off, the police<br />
raided a hideout in<br />
Pirwadhai and arrested four<br />
alleged gamblers identified<br />
as Asghar, Khalid, Noman<br />
and Abdur Rasheed. The<br />
police also seized Rs10,420<br />
in stake money, three litters<br />
of liquor and gambling<br />
equipment. The police have<br />
registered a case and started<br />
investigation.<br />
Peshawar UC<br />
Nazims protest<br />
for their demands<br />
PESHAWAR, <strong>May</strong> 2:<br />
Nazims of different Union<br />
Councils of Peshawar here<br />
on Monday staged a protest<br />
demonstration in front of<br />
Peshawar Press Club to<br />
press the government for<br />
their demands.<br />
According to details, the<br />
Union Council Nazims from<br />
across Peshawar gathered<br />
outside Peshawar Press Club<br />
and staged a protest demonstration.<br />
The protesters were<br />
holding banners and placards<br />
inscribed with slogans<br />
in favor of their demands.<br />
The protesting Nazims<br />
alleged that after more than<br />
one year of the local body<br />
elections, the provincial<br />
government has neither provided<br />
them with development<br />
funds nor they were<br />
given their due powers to<br />
exercise.<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>May</strong> 2: The<br />
mutilated body of a man was<br />
found within the Gorla police<br />
jurisdiction.<br />
The body, which was<br />
almost two weeks old, was<br />
spotted by a passer-by laying<br />
on a roadside in Dhok Soyan.<br />
The police took the body into<br />
jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz,<br />
Aneel Kumar,Arif Khuhro,<br />
Basit Bughio,Sohail Soomro,<br />
Darya Khan Daheri,Ahsan<br />
Jat, Mehtab Wasan, Ashfaq<br />
Sarki,Syed Hasnain and Niaz<br />
Muhammad Legnari of jeay<br />
Sindh<br />
Students<br />
Federation,STP’s Tahir<br />
Jatoi,Ghulam Shabbir<br />
Bhurgri of Tehrik Insaf, Niaz<br />
Leghari, Shah Rukh Jatoi,<br />
Sadam Jatoi and Munawar<br />
Shaikh.<br />
Talking to media Ashraf<br />
Noonari chairman of SNT<br />
thanked senior leaders of Jeay<br />
Sindh to joining his party and<br />
hoped that their struggle for<br />
rights of Sindh could get<br />
momentum with addition of<br />
these friends. He said they<br />
believe in tolerance and non<br />
violence and also were<br />
against religious extremism.<br />
Body recovered<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>May</strong> 2:<br />
Supreme Court of Pakistan on<br />
Monday disposed off two separate<br />
cases of murder, rejecting<br />
their appeals of release.<br />
In a case of murder, advocate<br />
Muhammad Yousaf Zia<br />
informed the court that Imran,<br />
brother of murdered<br />
Abdullah, along with his<br />
brother attacked Ayaz’s home<br />
their custody and shifted it to<br />
the Pakistan Institute of<br />
Medical Sciences for medicolegal<br />
formalities. The identity<br />
of the body could not be<br />
ascertained immediately,<br />
however, police said that they<br />
would launch investigation<br />
after autopsy report.<br />
over a tiny neighboring conflict<br />
and injured Ayaz and his<br />
brother Mansoor. During a<br />
clash Abdullah tried to snatch<br />
gun from Ayaz and received<br />
bullet during the fight,<br />
claimed the lawyer praying<br />
the court it was not intentional.<br />
The accused is engineer by<br />
profession while brother of<br />
accused completed MSC<br />
ISLAMABAD, <strong>May</strong> 2:<br />
Police have arrested several<br />
real estate agents who were<br />
protesting against Capital<br />
Development Authority<br />
(CDA), reported Monday.<br />
As soon as the protesters<br />
entered CDA Executive<br />
Block, police personnel<br />
baton charged them and<br />
shifted many of them to local<br />
police station. The agents<br />
stated that not a single file is<br />
moved to higher-ups at CDA<br />
without bribing the staffers.<br />
The protesters demanded<br />
National Accountability<br />
Bureau (NAB) and Federal<br />
Investigation Agency (FIA)<br />
to take notice and launch<br />
action against corrupt officials<br />
of the Capital<br />
Development Authority.<br />
Trauma, burn<br />
centres, paediatric<br />
unit in BBH approved<br />
RAWALPINDI, <strong>May</strong> 2: The<br />
Punjab government has<br />
given approval for setting<br />
up a trauma and a burn centre<br />
and a paediatric surgery<br />
unit at the Benazir Bhutto<br />
Hospital<br />
(BBH)<br />
Rawalpindi.<br />
Former MNA and PML-<br />
N leaders had sent recommendation<br />
to the chief minister<br />
to accord approval to<br />
the new facilities in the hospital.<br />
The Punjab government<br />
has also accorded approval<br />
for making new recruitment<br />
on vacant positions of medical<br />
staff, nurses and office<br />
boys in Benazir Bhutto<br />
Hospital, Holy Family<br />
Hospital and District<br />
Headquarters Hospital,<br />
sources in the health department<br />
said.<br />
Court complex<br />
for Kotli Sattian<br />
approved<br />
RAWALPINDI, <strong>May</strong> 2:<br />
Chief Justice Lahore High<br />
Court (LHC) Ejaz ul Hassan<br />
has accorded approval for<br />
construction of court complex<br />
in Kotli Sattian.<br />
Sources said that work<br />
on the court complex will<br />
start from this month.<br />
Additional district and sessions<br />
judges will take up<br />
cases in the new facility<br />
twice a week.<br />
Earlier, the executive<br />
body of the Tehsil Bar<br />
Association had held a special<br />
meeting with the LHC<br />
chief justice apprising him<br />
of the problems being faced<br />
by the litigants and the<br />
lawyers.<br />
SC disposes off two murder cases<br />
degree in jail.<br />
The lawyer prayed the<br />
court to release his client who<br />
allegedly killed Abdullah in<br />
2007 and session court had<br />
given him death penalty<br />
which was later converted<br />
into life imprisonment by the<br />
High Court. The Supreme<br />
Court had maintained the verdict<br />
of high court.<br />
HYDERABAD: ASP city Suhai Aziz presents certificate and medal to a student during annual<br />
function and prize distribution ceremony.