Staff Reporter
Islamabad, (Parliament Times) : The rulers of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) do not want to waste any opportunity to earn money in the name of the Ramadan package. So far, more than two dozen members of the ruling family have managed to earn crores of rupees. Commissions for appointments, transfers and development projects are being collected at the Prime Minister’s House.
After the announcement of a subsidy on flour in the month of Ramadan, cheap flour has not yet reached the market. Sources said that a series of fictitious entries in the records of the Directorate of Food Rawalpindi is on the rise through which the record of arrival and departure of thousands of tonnes of wheat is being compiled while the record regarding flour crushing at flow mills is also being changed.
The frontman of flour mills in Muzaffarabad, Imtiaz Abbasi, is busy at the civil secretariat to smoothen the affairs between the Finance Department and Food Secretariat through shuttle diplomacy. Sources claim that in the next few days about Rs 50 crore is to be paid to the food department contractors but most of the payments are fictitious. Rs 47 crore of the Ramadan package is in addition to this. Two persons belonging to the ruling family are trying to make all the payments possible within the next one week so that they could get their due share before the vote of a no-confidence motion in the national assembly of Pakistan brings any result.
Food department sources said that the Prime Minister’s family has also been allegedly involved in electricity theft for years, while Ittefaq General Flour Mills Sahansa grinds government wheat and sells it in the private market. The AJK Food Department, in collaboration with Ittefaq General Flour Mills, is now playing a supportive role in adjusting the subsidy.
