07-15-2006, 07:24 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Naresh+Jul 15 2006, 03:49 AM-->QUOTE(Naresh @ Jul 15 2006, 03:49 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The New Land Barons - Ayesha Siddiqa</b>
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<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><b>Naresh</b><i> ji</i>, in the "Land of the Pure", it is naturally the "land" that is still the status symbol. The landed gentry created TSP cuckooland and the same landed gentry continue to rule TSP. No wonder therefore that 0.5% of the population possess control of over 30% of the TSP land. Successive land reform processes have miserably failed and in recent years the land reform laws have even been struck down by the Supreme Court and the CII (Council of Islamic Ideology) as contrary to the Shariah !! The Praetorian State has paid fabulous dividends to its Army Generals. The Navy & Airforce top brass have been left to eat the crumbs in the process. More than the individual officers getting plots, it is the Defence Housing schemes that are the most scandalous in TSP fairyland. As soon as the peace process started, the Army officers have grabbed lands in Occupied Kashmir as they now expect the land prices to rise there.
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<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><b>Naresh</b><i> ji</i>, in the "Land of the Pure", it is naturally the "land" that is still the status symbol. The landed gentry created TSP cuckooland and the same landed gentry continue to rule TSP. No wonder therefore that 0.5% of the population possess control of over 30% of the TSP land. Successive land reform processes have miserably failed and in recent years the land reform laws have even been struck down by the Supreme Court and the CII (Council of Islamic Ideology) as contrary to the Shariah !! The Praetorian State has paid fabulous dividends to its Army Generals. The Navy & Airforce top brass have been left to eat the crumbs in the process. More than the individual officers getting plots, it is the Defence Housing schemes that are the most scandalous in TSP fairyland. As soon as the peace process started, the Army officers have grabbed lands in Occupied Kashmir as they now expect the land prices to rise there.