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A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has ordered the District and Session Judges Islamabad to launch a judicial inquiry against Malik Riaz on allegations of land grabbing through coercive and blackmailing tactics and submit report to the Supreme Court by 26th November 2009. The DCO Islamabad has also been directed to facilitate and cooperate with the District and Sessions Judge in this regard.
The Supreme Court also ordered the local Police authority to add name of Malik Riaz in supplementary report of the main FIR launched in the murder case of Fayyaz Ahmed (DHA security guard) after the statement of his widow in the courtroom.
Malik Riaz of Bahria Towns property empire in Pakistan and has been closely associated with both General Musharraf and Asif Ali Zardari and is known to be the richest person in Pakistan.
It all started with a Suo moto action of Supreme Court against some appeals published by the name of Raja Riasat claiming that his son Fayyaz Ahmed (DHA Security Guard) was murdered nearly a year ago and his alleged murderer Shafiq-ur-Rehman, the owner of Allied Developers, was released by the court on bail.
The Supreme Court hearing on this subject was held on 26th and 27th October 2009. On the first day of hearing, lawyer of Shafiq-ur-Rehman (Justice (R) Tariq Mahmood), lawyer of Raja Riasat (Malik Waheed Anjum), brother of murdered guard, Mr. Tahir and his widow Shamriza Bibi appeared before the court.
The story got a shocking twist right form the start of hearing when Chief Justice asked about Raja Riasat whose name was appearing in the newspaper appeals and which was the main reason of this suo moto action. It was revealed by brother of murdered guard that Raja Riasat, his father, had passed way and he or his family had no idea who was behind the publishing these appeals in newspapers in the name of his father. It was then revealed that in fact it is Malik Riaz who financed publishing of these appeals for his own motives.
Lawyer of Shafiq-ur-Rehman (Jusitice (R) Tariq Mahmood) told the court that in fact name of his client was added in these fabricated appeals by Malik Riaz because he wanted to grab land of his client for his Bahria Town on GT Road. When Shafiq-ur-Rehman refused to do so, Malik Riaz, being a very influential person of Pakistani elite, got Shafiq-ur-Rehman name added to murder case of Fayyaz Ahmed. Later, when Shafiqu-ur-Rehman was released on bail, Malik Riaz decided to use blackmailing tactics through this appeal in newspapers.
Later when court asked the widow of Fayyaz Ahmed to name the suspect in murder of her husband, she categorically named Malik Riaz of Bahria Town. She recorded her official statement in this regard against Malik Riaz and Chief Justice asked the local police officer to add this statement and hence name of Malik Riaz to supplementary reports of FIR of this case.
It was also revealed in the court that another businessman Malik Tabarak Hussain, aka Malik Bari tried to help the widow and other victims of similar coercive tactics of Malik Riaz of land grabbing. Malik Bari had also planned to bring many of such victims to court but Malik Riaz used his influence to get Malik Bari arrested through Sindh Police and later he was taken to Karachi by Sindh Police. The Supreme Court ordered the Sindh Police authorities to produce Malik Bari in the court on next hearing (Tuesday, 27 Oct 09). Some other people also claimed in the court that they are victims of Malik Riaz’s land mafia. They told the court their specific stories in this regard.
The Supreme Court then ordered the District and Sessions Judge Islamabad to launch a judicial inquiry in this matter and submit report by 26th November 2009.
On the 2nd day hearing (27th October 2009), Malik Bari was produced in the court and court observed that cases against Malik Bari are all fabricated and also Sindh Police has not followed the standard procedures in this regard. Malik Bari was later released on bail. It was also claimed in the court that airline tickets of Sindh Police taking Malik Bari to Karachi had been paid by Malik Riaz. Interestingly, Barrister Akram Sheikh represented Malik Riaz in the Court.
The Supreme Court has referred all victims of Malik Riaz including Malik Bari, Shafiq-ur-Rehman and many others to approach District and Sessions Judge Islamabad, who has been given the task for judicial inquiry of these land-grabbing cases.
More information about Malik Riaz contributed by Adonis in Discuss Forum:
No session judge can inquire into malik riaz—– he is uncrowned king of corruption and money/
if we can get rid of these vultures and also people like iqbal z a hmad
This Chamat deserves Kal Kothri more than any politician as he finance them, in fact invest in them to gain favors.
Wonder what Akram Sheikh will comment for defending this Don. I guess he must have forgotton all Qurani Taileems, which he preaches in all his TV appreances when reciving a hefty fee.
Great Job
Good news after a longtime
its not a single person who is doing these shut arround the country…it is now our national character. look at ur president and think for a minute who elected him as president then compare the term “NATIONAL CHARACTER”..
یہ سب سے برا چور ہے اگر آپ نے ایک دیں جیو کے ساتھ دیکھا ہو تو اس میں یہ کہتا ہے کہ میں برا غریب تھا بیٹی کے علاج کے پیسے نہیں تھے رکشا والے کو دینے کے لئے کرایا نہیں تھا. اور آگے جا کر اس کے بیٹے کی آٹھ دس گاڑیاں دکھائی جاتی ہیں وہ سہیل وڑائچ کو بتاتا ہے کہ ایک گری کی قیمت ایک کروڑ ہے. ملک ریاض اور اس کی بیوی چارٹرڈ طیارے میں سفر کرتے ہیں اسلام آباد سے لاہور کے لئے .وی کی بیوی کہتی ہے میں سونا نہیں پہنتی بس ہیرے کے زیورات پہنتی ہوں.جب ٹکس کا پوچھا جاتا ہے تو سوال گول کر جاتا ہے. ہمارے ملک میں کوئی ادارہ ہی نہیں ہے پوچھنے والا اگر یہ برطانیہ میں ہوتا تو ٹکس ڈیپارٹمنٹ جو کے برطانیہ میں ان لنڈ ریونو کہلاتا ہے اس ٹکس بھی وصول کرتے اور اسے سزا بھی ہوتی. ملک ریاض کا امیر ہونا کوئی جرم نہیں ہے لیکن ٹکس چوری تو برا جرم ہے. جب تک ملک ریاض ،اقبال زیڈ احمد جیسے لوگوں سے ٹکس وصول نہیں کیا جائے گا ہم ترقی نہیں کر سکتے. لیکن کیا کیا جائے ہمارے حکمران میں صاحب نے خود صفر اور زرداری صاحب نے چند لکھ روپے ٹکس ادا کیا ہے. یہ سب ایک ہو جاتے ہیں جب احتساب کا وقت آتا ہے.
Well done JC, do it at your own risk. we are busy in……………….
The lawyer Akram Sheikh is notorious of taking extremely lucrative land grabbing cases. City of Faisalabad is besieged to expand one of it’s main artery, Railway Road, into the eight bazaars of Clock Tower. The Railway Road has been encroached by businesses since several decades. The Railway Road merchant association hired this high power lawyer with a going price of Rupee ten million (one Krore).
Our wonderful justice system has issued him a stay-order on the litigation since several years while the land grabbers are busy in building high-rise plazas on public land.
this is start, we hope that if there is any ray of hope. this wouldn’t change anything on ground untill ur institutions are not changed. there will be new Malik riaz and zardari produced by this system.
Sunta Ja Sharmata Ja!
Land of Pure was created for such thing because Hindu Domination would have not allowed all such luxiries
Admin Point of view is worth reading
My favourite Programmes are
Aaj Kamran K sath
Off the record
Bolta Pakistan
Now is it possible for the anchors of these program to present a special program on this matter…to prove the Admin Wrong….
I am Afraid not … they will not…
So we Can say Geo Aaj and Ary aRe Exactly same as Qaaf League who were saying to Elect Mushy Pishy 10 time in Uniform … now they are quite as it is clear the fruitful era of Pishy Mush is gone
I think Geo and Other Electronic media will do the same Like Qaaf League once this guy is found guilty and their hope of making more money from this guy is over…
Shame on them.
choor ko choor takra to dono ko ghash a gaya!
translated into english:
stealer, struck stealer, both out or sense!
Mulla!
@admin – excellent work sir on giving the background on Bari and Malik Riaz. I have heard Malik Riaz is worth more than 1.5billion USD – all that money should be confiscated and invested in our police – specially the NWFP police because they are on the forefront of the Taliban onslaught.
Question is if he is convicted by SC, who will arrest him?
Do you think Zardari would allow this to happen?
Toba toba!!! ye pakistan my kia ho raha hy? Generals awar seyasatdano se taluq rakne wale ke kelaf judicial inquiry????
Qyamat ke neshaneya hy!!!!
Ya Allah Supreme Court ke hefazat ferma!!
This is why we all supported the lawyers movement and the CJ. All the people who gave their lives for that and the ones who were burnet alive in Karachi by the MQM commandos, which Mush-Haram took credit for their spitrts in haven must be proud that their sacrifice for their country was worth it. I am hoping that one by one all these criminals, including the Family, religious and political ethnic Mafia bosses will be brought to justice. May the people of Pakistan who have given their lives for the best interest of their countrymen rest in peace.
I THINK , JUSTICE BHAGWAN DAS IS APPROPRIATE FOR THE INQUIRY, POOR SESSION JUDGE CAN NOT BEAR THE WEIGHT OF THE TYCOON.
I think malik riaz has had it now and its time Allah will take care of innumerable murders he has orchestrated.May Allah help the CJ in this regard
@ SAZA
I agree with you. The matter should be investigated on a higher level.
don’t forget that CJ himself pointed out about corruption in Judiciary. Who knows that this session judge is not among the black sheeps of judiciary.
One thing that I heard long time ago when I lived in Lahore is that Shebaz Sharif was the big boss of all land mafia groups in lahore. Does any one know anything about this or this is just a propaganda?
This is revolution !!!!
wonderful Supreme court — you are setting direction for a revolution
This status Quo must face the music now — while common man has been supressed from ages ..
we are with you for justice – and should NOT allow any one to try pressurizing the courts
Malik Riaz could pave the way for the Hangman’s rope for zardari and
sharfoo commander.
One point to be noted, he is partner with Pakistan Navy in real state business. That means if he is corrupt then our Navy is also involved in all this …………
Please rectify me if I am wrong.
@basharat
off course navy can as well be corrupt, if the whole system is corrupt then navy is not exception. and there have been already allegations.
@SAZA & ABID AZIZ
well I m hopeful that the session judge wouldn’t dare to be influenced by Malik riaz and company but there is offcourse possibility. And if CJ found the inquiry report dubious then he can make a powerful forum as well.
Though Navy doesnt have anything officially to do with Bharia Town now, but still many of the top officers of Bahria town are former navy. Malik Riaz has been very shrewd in cultivating relations with the elite of the country. Right from the beginning, he brought military brass on his side by doling out plots at throw away rates. Then he repeated the same with govt officials. In return, everyone looked the other way when he was allegedly occupying government land or threatening and intimidating ing private citizens who refused to part with their land voluntarily.
He also takes good care to keep a positive public profile through his free dispensary and free food for poor. A few years back he also dabbed into journalism and owns Daily Jinnah.
He was very close to Musharraf and is very close now to Zardari. I guess he will also become very close to whoever next comes into power. Businessmen like him and Iqbal Z Ahmed are very adept in these things.
When direction comes from top and the civil judge knows that Big Brother is looking over the shoulder, then very little chance of a soft report. However if the civil judge prefers one hefty brief case, that will be his choice but even then he will not be ablt to hide all evils.
This Chamat should be made an example and also a few columists who are presenting him as Robin Hood, detailing the money he has given to poor people and relief funds. It would have been nice if the stated the amount they recieved to write these columns.
Most of what is written against Malik Riaz is not true. Many of his critics do not have guts to face him in an open court, because his critics themselves are not clean in their hearts or characters.
Any reader/member who has GUTS, should reproduce here his NIC # & full address. who can stand up to him.
Has this gentleman, called Malik Riaz, been given a chance to defend himself? I am sure, not.
We all are fond of giving examples of the law in USA/UK where a person is ‘ believed to be innocent unless proved guilty’ but here we find everybody critisizing another person, left, right & center, by hiding behind veils.
I am sure if those critisizing that ‘tycoon’ were ever to go to a court of law to challenge him, then I am 100% sure that his critics will face an ignoble defeat.
I feel that his critics want a ‘piece’ of his worth of ‘U.S$ 1.5 billon’ which according to them, he is supposed to own. But even if his critics were to take their own share out of his hard-earned money, like ‘thieves in the broad day-light’ then I am sure they would still ‘want more’ of his money.
To critize from far distant is a very easy task, especially when the antecedents of his critics are not known.
Lets not criticize those who cannot defend themselves here in these columns, especially by those people who hide their real names & indicate only false/assumed user-names, ONLY TO BE COUNTED, as contributors to these columns.
But those who are brave at heart & do not have ‘feet of clay’ should show ‘real guts’ & face Malik Riaz to challenge him openly in any court of law, by bringing his ‘wrong-doings’ in the open.
IF they cannot do so, then they should term themselves as ‘BIG FAILURES’ in their own lives.
They should also allow themselves to be termed as ‘BIG COWARDS.’
Yes as pure cowards; nothing less & nothing more.
Because then it is the ‘BAD LUCK’ of his critics that they do not have the equivalent of ‘billons of U.S dollors’ that he, i.e; Malik Riaz is supposed to possess.
(Mind you, I neither know Malik Riaz nor I ever met him.) But I only ask of his critics to be honest & ONLY fear Allah & not to criticize only for criticism’s sake.
Does anybody know, over all these years, how hard has he worked to reach the enviable position that he is placed today?
Lets not be jealous of him, but lets us praise him as the most able of any of the administrators of a housing scheme today that Pakistan has produced.
@sabazbagh bhai
aap aisay hi ghussay main aa gay hain. everyone over here is just discussing about the Judicial enquiry that has already been ordered and was just reported by admin of this site. I am sure admin of this site is not hiding his ID here and doesnt need to be revealed again. and as per your wish supreme court has already asked people to report to District and Session judges if they have anything to say. So hopefully people will show up surely with their IDs along with their stories. we got to wait what comes up out of this.
I neither know Malik Riaz nor the poster with the name Sabzbagh. I never even heard of Malik Riaz before this. But it is true that people made huge money in property frauds. This does not mean that every person who is related to this business is a fraud and Malik Riaz should be given a chance to defend him. I believe that some of the points that Sabzbagh raised should be answered which I do as follows:
Sabzbagh wrote:
“Any reader/member who has GUTS, should reproduce here his NIC # & full address. who can stand up to him.”
Well now you have a case against him in court. Names and other details of such people must be available in court. Nevertheless, in a country like Pakistan Ordinary people can’t defend themselves even against an Ordinary police officer like ASI or SHO. How can you expect people to come out in open aginst a person who has substantial influence in Pakistan. However, modren technology has given an opportunity to people to raise their voice against anybody.
Sabzbagh wrote:
“Lets not criticize those who cannot defend themselves here in these columns, especially by those people who hide their real names & indicate only false/assumed user-names, ONLY TO BE COUNTED, as contributors to these columns.”
I am sure that Sabzbagh is not your real name. I have never heard such a name. You are blaming people of what you are doing yourself.
It is hard to understand why you are defending him. You mentioned that you neither know Malik Riaz nor you ever met him. Then why you are defending him. Either you are associated with him or you have been benifited by him or you honestly believe that he is a gentleman. If you believe that he is a gentleman you must have some reason to believe that. But then again you say that you don’t know him, in that case how you can honestly believe that he is a gentleman.
May Allah help Malik Riaz and exalt him if he is gentleman and is being victimized for some reason. If he is a goon and has been cruel to innocent people then Allah’s punishment is severe. Allah knows the best.
I wonder if any proceedings start against Malik Riaz! because the law is only for poor and the priviliged one are exonerated. He can take benefit of NRO being politically victimized.
hasankhan on payroll of zardari is doing a very lousy job of defending him. I think zardari probably could not get a better corrupt brain on this occasion. he could have engaged Hussain American Haqqani for it as well.
gud.i think a better time for pakistan is on the way.CJP is the real gift of ALLAH in this bad time.
“Jub insan khuda bun jain to khuda un ko tabah kar seta hy”
as in the story of Malik riaz.ye khuda ki paker hy.
our media must point out these black sheeps.our media is free only to criticize politicians.
why the media keep silence in these type problem??there must be a sereis of talk shows on corruption,social problems,and on other topics.
@ ruhtas.
Please allow me to submit that I repeat here that neither do I know this ‘Malik Riaz’ nor I have ever met him; THEN why should I get angry, because for your kind information he is neither my friend nor a relation.
Dont you think that somebody, somewhere seems to be hiding his/her REAL IDENTITY, because any guy by now would have gone to a court of law against him.
I hope you do realize that it’s not sufficient if a judge just asks people to report to him if they have anything to say.
I think you very well know that starting 1951, many high-profile political murders took place in Pakistan, starting with that of Liaqat Ali Khan & later followed by that of Zia-ul-Haq, Z.A.Bhutto, & now lately of Benazir?
Dont you then think, that:-
1. Since then a lot many Pakistanis had ‘a great lot’ of information so to tell their part of the stories to a court of law?
2. Since then did not the Pakistani courts also ‘HOPEFULLY’ WAITED for the same LONG TIME for the ‘insiders’ to come forward, as you imply?
BUT so far, has ANYBODY told their stories before a court? Naturally, your answer has to be a big ‘NO.’
Then how many more years, will the courts have to WAIT for ‘what comes out of this’ as you say?
Isn’t now almost 58 years, since Liaqat Ali Khan was killed?
Do you think that ‘witnesses’ will live ‘perpetually’ & ‘wait’ for next hundreds of years, to tell their stories? the answer is obviously, CERTAINLY NOT !
@ Abid Aziz.
Either you are a naive, a simpleton or a complete nitwit for not being able to understand what I originally expressed as my opinion.
I request you to read it again & DO NOT JUST JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS.
For your betterment, please allow me to suggest that please don’t join a discussion which you CANNOT NOT COMPREHEND/UNDERSTAND.
For your kind information, I am not the one BLAMING Malik Riaz Hussain with a false identity or showing a false user name; nor I am defending him.
I am sure that you are not a moron, not to understand that ’sabazbagh’ is just a ‘user-name’ like hundred & thousand of others, which thus cannot be at all a REAL NAME; or are you serious?
Your comment that ‘You are blaming people of what you are doing yourself’ IS COMPLETELY ‘ wide off the mark’ or say, highly inaccurate, incorrect & wrong.
Please be clear, as I REPEAT here again, that I never ever blamed Malik Riaz of any wrong-doing.
For the last time, I repeat again that we should all fear ALLAH, & let us NOT BLAME anybody, without that person being heard by a court of law; because in the eyes of law, everybody is INNOCENT until proved GUILTY.
@ SABAZBAGH
Are you saying there should not a judicial enquiry or we should not talk about that enquiry. On one side you posing yourself very neutral but you have no sympathy to murdered man. what a justice………………..
Every dog will have its day sooner or later.
State has the right to acquire the land for public projects but no private developer have similar right in pakistan. Do you have justification how he amassed such a huge land bank without any ‘Establishment’ backing.
If he is such a clean businessman and he has built his business on a truthful foundation why not he export his business to other country.
I am astonished to read your post. A court can see the grounds for enquiry and you don’t allow people to discuss and even then you claim you don’t have any relation to MRH.
‘Zaalim ka saath dena zulam mein shamil hoona hay’
Malik riaz is like a beggar in our country who has no feeling of guilty while grabbing the land of orphan,widows and poor.I think that we people should give our zakat,sadqahs,kherat to him and his family so that they must stop cruelity.He is just like a pharoan but will soon reach its grave where no body can help him and he is accountable there.
His land director haji amjad performs haj every year at the cost of grabbing the lands of orphan,widows and poor.
Pakistan army must be ashamed for supporting this goof.Our corrupt generals are like his personal servants.
i am a civil servant. i was posted as tax officer in islamabad and jurisdiction of bahria town given to me. case of bahria town was selected for audit for 2006. for this year bahria town purchaed land for rs. nine billion which he was to prove with documentary evidence as expense. i called the evidence for teh purchase of land at rs. 9 billion. his accountant was hesitant and didn’t respond to letter. inpite of repeated reminders no evidence was produced. later on, he went to my director general and asked him to favour his case. my DG called me and tried to get favour with the admission that bahria town accountant has admitted that they don’t posses the evidence of nine billion. i plainly refused and also asked DG in the presence of his accountant that it is big crime and we must take legal action on it and also report to NAB as well as punjab govt fo recovery o f provincial taxes. at this my DG got blunt and asked me to leave his room. this happended on 25.5.2009 and on 04.06.2009 jurisdiction of bahria town transferred and i was transferred on 05.6.2009. my successor investigated further and it was found that evidence of only 3 billion available but amount claimed was 9 billion. on balance 6 billion tax implication of around 2 billion involved. my successor was also transferred and now the case has been settled with charge of tax of only 50 lakh.
later on i was transferred to HQ and a murder attempt was also made on me by dislodging the screws of tie rod of my car to give it the shape of an accident. fortunately i escaped an accident on 31.12.2009 and also lodged a complaint before chairman agaisnt unknown persons who ordered an inquiry but report still awaited.
it is an irony that who steal billions in taxes expose themselves as Hatim Tai by launching dastar khawans for poor people. in other words he is giving right of people(due taxes) in the form of charity. there is no calculation how much tax he has evaded foe other years also. i bacame of vicitim of all of my superiors due to my refusal to accomodate him on illegal grounds. all this happened under the nose of head of department. he spends million in charity for show-off and steals billions in taxes. if he pays the due taxes he will be unable to find a single person in his dastar khawan.
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