ISLAMABAD: NEWSMAN has managed official inquiry report on Rawalpindi Ring Road project scam for its readers. It will give our readers a picture how greedy senior official gang headed by ex commissioner Muhammad Mahmood colluded with mafia of housing socities to add new loop of 65 km to the project illegally. This nexus would have cost Rs 25 billion to the national exchequer had it not been noticed by the prime minister.
The following is full detail of the fact finding report.
Actions By: Based on the Fact Finding Inquiry Report
i. Establishment Division: Suspension of Muhammd Mahmood and initiation of
E&D and/or Directory Retirement Proceedings.
It was found that the 65 Km long alignment advertised for bidding was illegally
crafted by Muhammad Mahmood Ex-Commissioner & his accomplices with
the unlawful help of consultants.
Ex-Commissioner Muhammad Mahmood, Ex LAC Waseem Ali Tabish, Ex DD
PMU Abdullah committed incurable illegalities, committed deceit & deception,
issued orders without having due authority and committed abuse of public funds
to benefit the Rent-Seeking Syndicate including themselves. Their matter is being
referred to NAB and E&D Proceedings including their suspensions are being initiated.
NAB is being Asked to inquire Rs. 2.3 Billion spent unlawfully by Ex-Commissioner
Muhammad Mahmood on illegal land acquisition for building R3 centric hype
for boosting sales of real-estate connected with him and with powerful public
office holders of past and present. Some Housing societies are being inquired for
being Benami Fronts of powerful people.
Mahmud Ahmad and his accomplices are being suspended forthwith.
Ex-Commissioner Muhammad Mahmood conducted himself recklessly in sheer violation of laws & rules to create rent seeking benefit for himself as well as for, inter alia, NOVA City, Capital Smart City, New Airport City/Al Asif Housing, TOP
City, SAS Developers, Blue World and Islamabad Capital Housing Society. It has
been established that addition of Moorat-Attock Loop, & Paswaal Zigzag were
made to purely benefit private interests with the backing of influential public office
holders, past and present, and influential bureaucrats. Through lies, deceit and
deception this private rent seeking was being portrayed as public necessity.
Government in the Punjab and in the Federation were kept in total darkness
about the necessary facts and every pointations made by highest fora for
presenting the alignment to Chief Minister were willfully and repeatedly ignored; helped by un-ethical conduct of Member PPP the project was unlawfully
advertised on March 1, 2021.
Forensic Audit of such Societies by FIA is being ordered for the sales beyond approved lands as well as onlinesales without approval.
The Ex Commissioner Muhammad Mahmood ensured reckless speed on illegal alignment despite there being clear illegalities; he did this to create irreversibility
of the process and to create dust storm of made-progress so that illegalities and his personal conflict of interest remains hidden from the public eye and the momentum built by construction activity overshadows any attempt at digging the
facts.
Some of the Engineering Firms who purchased the RFP were heavily invested in properties astride R3’s illegally emerged part.
Now the Bidding Process Stands Cancelled, Since the alignment emerged illegally no one can Ever lawfully regularize it. So this alignment shall never be taken upagain for the incurable illegalities underpinning its emergence and also because of the reasons given at para vii of this Brief.
The build up of a massive scam driven by the greed of a powerful rent seeking syndicate has been busted because of the notice taken by the Prime Minister himself of the scandalous shenanigans of the Rent Seeking Syndicate reported
along the Attock loop of the R3.
This Rent Seeking Build Up may have sucked up 10s of Billions of Rupees towards speculative real estate depriving resource hungry productive sectors and job
creating sectors of twin city economy. This Rent Seeking Syndicate planned to thwart Prime Minister’s Vision of vertical development of Cities and emergence of
high rise Business Districts with in existing urban centers. Economic resources which were being diverted to this Rent-Seeking Black Hole could significantly
improve livability of small cities like Fateh Jang, Attock, Taxila, Gujjar Khan, Kotli
Sattian and also could lead to Urban Re-generation of Rawalpindi City and
emergence of Central Business District in the Rawalpindi City Area.
Through his repeatedly expressed vision Prime Minister has first time in Pakistan
mainstreamed concerns about destruction of ecosystems and wildernesses. His
sincerity with the purpose of Ecosystem Restoration may have a lot to do with the
way he himself got suspicious and noticed lies of Ex-Commissioner. It is nothing
less than a miracle that this scam was busted just two days before the bid opening.
Such miracles happen when Allah Subhanahu Tala blesses sincere people with the
purity of soul; blessed with this purity they are able to listen to the wails of the hapless; and most hapless in our midst are the fast depleting wildernesses and
habitats of Bezaban Makhlooq. Central figures of this Rent Seeking Syndicate
showed callous disregard for fast depleting wildernesses and their rent-seeking
design could just put a lasting end to the remaining wildernesses astride M2. Allah
Subhanhu Ta’la definitely heard the wails of the Bezaban Wilderness and punished these greedy , callous minds.
Dr. Farrukh Naveed Member PPP P&D Punjab has been recommended for E&D
Proceedings and his removal from post for his un-ethical conduct while holding positions of Secretary of the PPP P&M Board, CEO PPP Authority. DCs of Attock, Rawalpindi, ADC R Rawalpindi, ACs Saddar Rawalpindi, AC Fatehjang and Chief Officer Tehsil Council Fatehjang are being transferred for their unethical
silence towards the shenanigans of the Rent Seeking Syndicate.
xvii. A list of Societies has also been identified by the Fact-Finding Inquiry for
investigating them as Benami fronts of past and /or present public office holders,
public servants and civil servants.
Over Rs. 2.3 Billion were illegally spent by Ex-LAC on the behest of Muhammad
Mahmood on land acquisition on a very fast speed even after notice was taken by the Highest Office about the suspiciousness of the alignment. For this reckless disregard of law and rules matter is being referred to NAB.
Investigations by NAB, FIA, FBR, and E&D Proceedings by Establishment Division,
and Government of the Punjab shall ensue from the Fact-Finding Inquiry Report. Construction OF Ring Road Prime Minster has also directed fast track progress on most suitable, merit based, rent-seeking free alignment for the Rawalpindi Ring Road.
