The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has been informed that some 1,000 journalists of Islamabad had applied for plots after the government launched new sectors in Islamabad and invited applications from the general public, government servants and others as part of a uniform policy to give plots to those who were permanently living in Islamabad and did not have any property. A two per cent quota was also fixed for Islamabad-based journalists. A high-powered committee comprising government officials and senior journalists was formed which after careful scrutiny of the applicants, had recommended names of 172 journalists who were given plots against payments. The PAC is in possession of a list of 172 journalists who were given plots in the federal capital in line with their two per cent quota in G-13 and G-14 sectors (Express Tribune, November 2010). The names of journalists who were given plots against payments were:
| Sarwar Munir RaoSohail Iqbal
Ayesha Haroon Syed Fahd Hussain Shakeel Ahmed Turabi M Najeeb Sarmad Salik Sheikh Zamir Ahmed Qadri Rana Qaiser Absar Alam (he later returned the plot) Hanif Sabir Muhammad Malick Nazir Naji Shoaib Bhutta Mustansar Javed Kh Sharif Ahmed Sami H Zubari Aslam Javed M. Ziauddin Zafar Rashid Muhammad Ilyas Bhatti Noor Faizi Khan Zaman Malik Shaukat Ali Syed M Qasim Tahir Khan Ikram Hoti Syed Qamar Abbas Shamim Sherrei Sardar Shakil Sheikh Abdul Aziz Muhammad Abrar Ali Saeed Syed Farhan Bokhari Muhammad Ashraf Muhammad Ishaq Ch. Muhammad Ilyas Rashida Begum Butt Iftikhar Nazar Muhammad Sarwar Awan Muhammad Afzal Nadeem Aqeel Ahmed Ejaz Malik Muhammad Fayyaz Altaf Hussain Bhatti Muhammad Ehsan Elahi Ali Raza Shahid Mahmood Malik Zafar Malik Wajih Siddiqi Farman Ali Muhammad Bilal Arif Rana Syed Itrat Hussain Rana Ghulam Qadir Saleem Khilji Abdul Saleem Safdar Hussain Imran Nallam Ahmed Abdur Rauf Masood Majid Syed Zahid Khawaja Muhammad Akram Syed Zargoon Shah Kunwar Rashid Habib Anis Ahmed Waseem Akthar Rao Khalid Abdul Manan Haid Jehangir Raja Shaukat Rehman Malik Muhammad Javed Akhtar Akthar Munir Muhammad Javed Muhammad Nawal Nasir Chishti Malik Safdar Abrar Mustafa Muhammad Latif Suleman Hidyat |
Murad Shaz KhattackAttaur Rehman Tahir
Maqsood Mehdi Muhammad Jamil Khan Kh Javed Bhatti Kaleem Ahsan Shah Khadim Husain Muhammad Javed Iqbal Khakwani Mazhar Ali Khan Syed Qasir Sherazi Karim Madad Ghulam Hussain Zia Shahid Azam Ahmed Khan Khalid Awan Khalid Mahmood Tanveer Shahzad Seema Mir Najumul Islam Usmani Khalid Mustafa Saleem Usmani Syed Ali Nasir Jaffiri Shahid Butt Zulfikar Ghuman Abdul Razak Ali Imran Syed Raza Shah Muhammad Aslam Shabir Khamid Bukhtawari Shagufta Jabeen Bashir Ahmed Shad Syed Aswad Ulfat Agha Mahrooz Haider Nasir Iqbal Masood Abdul Raheem Raja Mahmood Bashir Usmani Muhammad Ilyas Khan Muhammad Mushtaq Ghuman Mashkoor Hussain Shah M Taimur Masroor Mohsin Gilani M Ibrahim Khan M Shahbaz Khan Amir Sajjad Mumtaz Alvi Azhar Jamal Shakil Awan Tanveer Alam Habibur Rehman Naveed Akram Syed Azhar Hussain Mubashir Raza Arif Hussain Jabbar Zakriya Muhammad Farooq Khan Rahat Naseem Saeed Murad Ali Imran Javed Ejaz Khan Munir Aziz Muhammad Riyaz Akhtar Rahat Munir Jahanzeb Muhamamd Afzal Malik Afzal Nadeem Muhammad Jameel Mirza Abdul Mateen Khan Hamidur Rehman Saadat Bashir Akhtar Ali Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan Khalid Mahmood Muhammad Rizwan Khan Rafiq Hussain Khan Malik Muhammad Ilyas Sohail Nashir Uzair Khan Zahid Hussain Hashwani |
Four journalists Rauf Klasra, Amir Mateen, Khaleeq Kiani and Javed Ch were given plots in light of the Lahore High Court decision of 2006 in their favour after their names were deleted from the final list on the orders of the then prime minister Shaukat Aziz.
The list also contains the names of PTV employees who were given plots. They include Nazir Tabsum, Qamar Mohiuddin, Nisar Baloch, Syed Javed Ali, Khalid Iqbal Warriach, Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah, Ayub Minhas, Asmatullah Khan Niazi, Muzamil Ahmed Khan, Majeed Afzal Khan (Sajan Khan), Awaid Butt, Rashid Baig, Ramzan Khalid, Muhammad Arshad Saleem, Muhammad Zakariya, Musadiq Kaleem, Arif Mahmood.
