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(surah Al-Imran,ayat-104)
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User Name: Noman
Full Name: Noman Zafar
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Gwadar port agreement


THE government claims to have reached a milestone by signing an agreement on the Gwadar Port with a fake company.

No expression of interest was published in newspapers for awarding the operations of the Gwadar Port to a suitable bidder, if there are any.

The whole process seems to have been carried out hurriedly. Just after the agreement was signed, a 40-year tax holiday was announced, giving a huge favour to the bidder.

The concessions-holding company seems to be one of the companies that were purposely formulated to get the contract; even it couldn't get time to develop its website.

Had this offer been announced earlier, much higher bids could have been quoted. This shows a clear partiality and lack of transparency for the whole process. This company is not available in the subsidiaries of the Singapore port authority. We seem to have another "˜Steel Mill' in the offing.

The minister for ports quite confidently and bluntly said that the government of Pakistan will be the sole beneficiary of this project, while even peanuts will not be offered to the province of Balochistan.

The government claims to support increased provincial autonomy but all tits rhetoric seems to have been false. A concurrent list has been pending for the last 23 years and it will remain pending for years until all the resources of the smaller provinces are speedily depleted.

We seem to have a federation of a unique type, where assets are sold to multinationals for peanuts and smaller provinces are losing authority to rule themselves. I request the authorities to issue the complete details of the project.

I request the Supreme Court of Pakistan to intervene and stop such widespread exploitation of resources of smaller units.

Otherwise, the claims of the nationalists may gain widespread popularity and they may appear to be right about their reservations on mega projects.  

TARIQ AHMED
Karachi
 Reply:   KARACHI: NAB reference against
Replied by(Noman) Replied on (13/Mar/2007)
the illegal allotment of prime land of KPT on Mai Kolachi Road CLIFTON.TO.SIND Assembly Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah
KARACHI: NAB reference against Muzaffar, others

KARACHI, March 9: A National Accountability Bureau reference (No.8/2007) has been filed before the administrative judge of the Accountability Court, Karachi, against Sindh Assembly Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah, Rasool Bux Rahoo and others. The reference pertains to the illegal allotment of prime land of KPT on Mai Kolachi Road.

The case had earlier been transferred from the Anti-corruption Court to the NAB court.

Meanwhile, hearing of another NAB reference, against a former DSP, Chaudhry Nazar Mohammad, was adjourned till March 22, 2007.

The DSP has been accused of misuse of power and accumulating wealth and properties beyond any legal source of income. The Accountability Court has declared him "˜absconder' and ordered attachment of his properties.

Later, his family trust moved a constitutional petition in the Sindh High Court for restoration of the confiscated assets and properties worth millions of rupees.

Claiming ownership of the properties, the family prayed to the court to exclude the properties from NAB reference."”PPI

 
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