After the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Al-Qadir Trust case, there is an uproar in Pakistan. However, these questions are also being raised why action is not being taken against the other characters of this scandal? |
Many analysts in Pakistan believe that in order to meet the demands of justice, the Al-Qadir Trust case should be investigated including Malik Riaz, the country's well-known property tycoon, so that the full details of any alleged deal between Imran Khan and Malik Riaz should be investigated. Can come forward. |
Talking to DW, several analysts also said that by ignoring all the characters in the Al-Qadir Trust scam, the action against Imran Khan alone will give the impression of favoritism and political revenge, so the former advisor to Prime Minister Imran Khan For accountability, all the relevant persons including Shahzad Akbar should be brought under the law. |
It should be remembered that former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been detained by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the Al-Qadir Trust case. According to the details, the Al-Qadir Trust case is related to the donation of more than 450 canals of land that was given by Bahria Town to Al-Qadir University. |
The figures associated with the current coalition government of Pakistan have been of the opinion that this matter is not a donation but the result of a secret agreement between Malik Riaz, the owner of Bahria Town, and the government of Imran Khan, and the government said that Bahria Town The number of billions of rupees which was handed over to the Pakistani government after being frozen in the UK was adjusted to the amount due to Malik Riaz after the Supreme Court's decision in the Bahria Town Karachi case. According to him, in return for this action, Bahria Town donated 458 kanals of land in the Sohawa area of Jhelum district to Al-Qadir University Trust in March 2021 and this agreement was signed between Bahria Town and Imran Khan's wife Bushra Bibi. Besides Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi, Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders Zulfi Bukhari and Babar Awan were among the trustees of the trust to which this land was given. But later these two leaders separated from this trust |
The Interior Minister of Pakistan, Rana Sanaullah, has said that the property tycoon who gave the land to Al-Qadir Trust sent 60 billion to his own account and injected it into the national treasury. The interior minister had said that the federal cabinet was kept in the dark by Imran Khan and the approval of this decision was taken only by waving a paper. According to him, the current cabinet is also responsible in a way that should be questioned. |
It is not yet clear who will conduct the inquiry. Brigadier Farooq Hameed, an analyst who monitors NAB affairs, told DWCO that he does not think any effective action will be taken against the remaining actors in the Al-Qadri Trust scam. Action against Malik Riaz in particular is very difficult because he has a lot of influence in the establishment, political parties, and elites of the country. Is. "It is my personal experience that many times when I go to TV channels, whenever we have to talk about Malik Riaz, we are told not to mention his name as it may affect the advertisements. " |
"Some people have been considering him as a kingmaker. I remember that when Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri was going to take out a long march during the PPP era, only Malik Riaz came to Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri to celebrate him." |
According to Farooq Hameed, the billions of rupees that will be used to pay the debts of Malik Riaz was the nation's money and should have gone to the national treasury. "I think Malik Riaz has done great services in the country in the development of modern housing, help to the flood victims and projects like Bahria Dastarkhan, but the Al-Qadir Trust scandal is a bad example, it should be corrected." |
Although NAB officials told DW without revealing their identity that there is a lot of solid material in the Al-Qadir Trust case against Malik Riaz, analyst Rizwan Razi told DW that Malik Riaz was not charged with the law in the Al-Qadir Trust case. It is not easy to bring to the dock. It will be a long and patient process. Pakistan will have to withdraw its statement submitted to the UK court and proceed with the case afresh with new details. Malik Riaz is currently living abroad. |
Does Rizwan Razi explain who will be able to lay hands on a person against whom even the top ten TV channels of the country could not make the news? He continued to use Bahria's name for his housing projects even after a court order against him, but he continued to work with an injunction. |
Senior journalist Mian Ghaffar told DW that action against Imran Khan alone in the name of Al-Qadir Trust is not appropriate. Honesty demands that all those involved in the overflowing Ganga be brought to book. Mian Ghaffar believes that in a country like Pakistan where it is generally believed that it is a little easier to put a price on human beings, there is no possibility of action against Malik Riaz. In response to a question, he said that apart from Al-Qadir Trust, there are many other questions that Malik Riaz has to answer. According to him, Malik Riaz kept buying village after village for his housing projects but no one asked him where the land in the form of roads and other government properties in these villages went. The representative of DW tried to contact Malik Riaz by making several calls on his mobile phone for his position, but it was not possible to contact him. |