Re: Supreme Court Damns Gujarat Government Over Riot Case

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Syed) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> So what is the difference,
> military does it or politicians do it. Shouldn't we then go for the
> lesser evil?  Do not get this impression, that I am in favor of
> Military government but  I am realistic.  Pakistan military have
> corruption too( Indian generals took commission on arms sale also) but
> politicians took the trophy. 

Rediff
September 17, 2003

The Lahore high court in Pakistan is being overwhelmed by complaints
of military corruption involving the highest ranking generals. .....

..... list[ing] some of the alleged kickbacks received by generals,
air marshals and admirals contained in a petition submitted to the
court.

The petition includes claims that:

Air Chief Marshal Abbas Khattak (retired) received Rs180 million as
kickbacks in the purchase of 40 old Mirage fighters.

Air Chief Marshal Farooq Feroz Khan was suspected of receiving a 5 per
cent commission in the purchase of 40 F-7 planes worth $271 million.

In 1996, the Pakistan Army bought 1,047 GS-90 Jeeps at a cost of 
$20,889 per unit. The market value of the vehicle then was only
$13,000. According to the National Accountability Bureau, some senior
army officers made Rs 510 million in the deal.

One hundred and eleven army men got 400 plots in Bahawalpur and
Rahimyar Khan districts at throwaway prices --Rs 47.50 per kanal
(1/8th of an acre) as against the market rate of  Rs15,000-20,000. Six
respondents got 400 kanals in Punjab, while former NAB chairman Lt Gen
Mohammad Amjad was allotted a two-kanal plot on Sarwar Road in Lahore
for just Rs 8,00,000, payable in instalments over 20 years. The market
value of this plot was Rs 2 crore.
Gen Pervez Musharraf acquired a commercial plot worth Rs 2 crore at
the Defence Housing Authority in Lahore for just Rs 1,00,000, payable
in 20 years. "As mentioned in the report of defence services
director-general, a loss of Rs 5 billion was incurred due to such
allotments," the petition says.
The army awarded a contract for the purchase of 1,000 Hino trucks at
$40,000 a unit when the local Gandhara Industries had offered trucks
of the same specification for $25,000 a piece.

In the purchase of 3,000 Land Rovers in 1995, army officials allegedly
received around Rs20,00,000 as kickbacks.

The army management at the Water and Power Development Authority
purchased electric meters at Rs 1,050 a piece against the market price
of Rs 456, causing a loss of Rs 165 crore to the national exchequer.

A former military regime sold the Pak-Saudi Fertilizers for Rs 700
crore and earned a Rs 200 crore commission on the deal.

In 1996, the Pakistan Navy spent Rs 1.3 crore on installing
air-conditioners at the Islamabad Golf Club without any justification.

Apart from this petition, some other major scams involving serving or
retired members of the military junta ..... are as follows:

Former army chief General Jahangir Karamat took kickbacks of more than
US $20 million from a Ukrainian tank company selling tanks to Pakistan
through a middleman named Colonel Mahmood, a brother tank corps
officer of Karamat.

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharief sent the present chief of WAPDA,
Major General Zulfiqar, then serving in the Inter-Services
Intelligence, to the Ukraine and Azerbaijan to investigate the
scandal.

Gen Zulfiqar compiled a report of the transaction and the bribes
given. But the army tried to buy him out by rewarding him with the
post of WAPDA chairman and promoting him to rank of lieutenant
general.

General Karamat was forced to resign. He was threatened that if he did
not, he would be charged with corruption.

Many road contracts were given to Hasnain Construction Company without
any public tenders by the recently removed railways and communication
minister, General Qazi. The company, owned by a relative of Gen
Musharraf's son, was also awarded the lease of prime real estate in
Lahore for the construction of a golf course under the frontmanship of
Palm Country Golf Club, Singapore.

The relative of Gen Musharraf admitted publicly that he was working
for a commission to use his contacts and influence for the company.

Prime commercial land developed by the DHA, Karachi, was leased at
dirt-cheap rates to a McDonald's franchisee outlet operated by Amin
Lakhani by the then corps commander, Karachi, Lt Gen Afzal Janjua.

"Men who had one green suit to wear, in the words of General Tajammul,
became the tycoons of Pakistan."

"It was the beginning of prosperity for a few and the beginning of the
end of military virtue of a previously spartan and clean military
machine. In this messy situation, the subservient Lahore high court
has been asked to sit in judgment with the sprawling mountains of
charges, some even admitted publicly by the army."

"God help the poor justices of the superior court".