Malik Riaz Needs Protection! Rehman Malik, the Interior Minister uses the offices and facilities of Malik Riaz for his private business. Apparently his official duties allow him enough time to pursue business scams in various fields, in some of which Malik Riaz and the Minister have common interests. When Rehman Malik shifted to Islamabad from his London exile, Malik Riaz refurbished one of his Islamabad houses in F-8 for the residence of Rehman Malik, but the latter became a minister, who was authorized government accomodation, and so the F-8 house was not needed by him. Malik Riaz is also in business partnership with Lord Zardari, along with many other crooked people. For years Malik Riaz has run the biggest " Qabza Group" in the country. The head of the group is Haji Nawaz Khokhar, ex MNA. Khokhar has a camp outside of Rawal Pindi where refuge is provided to various desperadoes on the run from the law. This is the army of musclemen who are called in to deprive the uninfluential of their land. They have no recourse to law--either to the police or the courts. About three years ago EVERY S.H.O, every tehsilar, girdawar, patwari civil judge,or sessions judge was appointed in Islamabad Capital territory or District Rawal Pindi, on the recommendation of Malik Riaz. He then massively corrupted some of the senior most ranks of the army who helped him to strike a fraudulent deal with DHA Islamabad which is a huge scandal waiting to explode. This will take down investments of literally thousands of mid level and junior army officers. I can name most of these bought Generals, but will desist from doing so because our army can do without this one. Being an equal opportunity employer, Malik Sahib made certain that the higher judiciary did not remain deprived of his beneficence. There was a belief some time ago that he owns the entire brood of our higher judiciary, except the C.J. And all credit to the C.J for proceeding with a very fair inquiry against him. But then things suddenly changed. I have it on unimpeachable authority that about 18 months ago, a son of the C.J was given a secret tour of Bahria Town to select properties--perhaps there was a follow-up tour as well. Immediately after this, the C.J's wrath against the inequities of Malik Riaz suddenly abated. This was a great conquest deserving of celebration. And Malik Riaz celebrated it by giving an advertisement in all the major papers of Pakistan inviting 'recently retired' Judges of the Supreme Court and Lt Generals to apply for a job in Bahria Town. It is reported that when one of his advisers showed concern that such an advertisement would draw the wrath of the Generals, Malik Sahib is reported to have remarked: " O Jee Bhul Jao Aina Jernailan Noo. Ae Randian ney Randian."And this is known in the army, but there is not the resolve among the top ranks of the army to get this man out of DHA Islamabad, and hence from the innards of the army. How this knowledge goes down with the huge majority of honest and dedicated officers, should not be too difficult to guess. But one cannot buy all the people all the time. And so one sore thumb rose up to mock the omnipotence of Malik Riaz, in the shape of Chowdhry Nisar Ali Khan, MNA. He has ensured that all the S.H.Os and Revenue officials owned by Malik Riaz be posted out of Rawal Pindi district. So, if Malik Riaz feels the need of protection which is being provided to him by a platoon of Frontier Constabulary, which comes under the Ministry of the Interior, which is the theme of the following article, there is good reason for this. Malik Riaz's head office is in Bahria town Rawal Pindi. In Rawal Pindi, he needs protection from all the many people he has been defrauding. He cannot get such protection from Punjab Police, firstly because no ordinary citizen is allowed such protection without adequate reason, and secondly, Rawal Pindi falls in the domain of Nawaz League, and not PPP. Zardari would have loved to send him a platoon of Islamabad police, but he cannot deploy this police outside the limits of the Capital. And so resort had to be made to the Frontier Constabulary, with is a federal force and may be deployed anywhere in the country. And luckily for Malik Riaz, this force falls under the ministry of interior, and his chum, Rehman Malik. Hopefully, in the not too distant future, we shall see this den of knavery dismantled. Paramilitary protection for tycoon Munawer Azeem | Islamabad | From DAWN ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: A small contingent of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC) has taken up guard duties in Bahria Town, allegedly to protect the property tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain who is facing land fraud charges in a Rawalpindi court. Police sources told Dawn that it was unusual to deploy a paramilitary force to protect a private person, that too at the cost of the FC`s more pressing task of providing security to VVIPs and sensitive places. They said the Islamabad police and the Ministry of Interior had to make extraordinary efforts to secure their services for Malik Riaz who feels hunted by people with political clout in the hugely profitable but murky business of property development.Beset with litigations on several fronts, the Bahria Town tycoon used to move in a convoy with personal bodyguards. Islamabad police were already trying to call FC to his protection when the arrest warrant issued by the Anti-Corruption Court in Rawalpindi for him last week made the tycoon feel more vulnerable. According to police source, SP Rural Zone visited the FC Headquarters in Islamabad on October 15, on the initiative of the Central Police Office and the Interior Ministry, to seek a platoon for his protection but was told that none could be spared. But the top police and interior ministry officials persuaded the FC command to withdraw one of its two platoons guarding the Army Aviation Heliport in the sports complex grounds and redeploy it in Bahria Town. Next day DSP Rural Ahmed Iqbal appeared at the gate of the heliport with police trucks to pick up the platoon but the army officer incharge rejected the idea. He informed his superiors who took up the matter with the prime minister`s secretariat and the transfer of FC personnel to police was abandoned. However, the Islamabad police hierarchy persisted in their efforts and offered the local FC command policemen exchange for FC personnel. It was after this deal that some 20 FC men took up duties in Bahria Town on October 23 and policemen replaced them in the Diplomatic Enclave, the sources said. In addition to the FC contingent, which has been put in a house, a police post, manned by about a dozen policemen, also exists in the Town which has its own well-organised security system and guards. Questioned about the deployment of FC, a Bahria Town guard merely said: “They are for the boss.” |
