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Distinguished figures among LPG quota beneficiaries
By Khawar Ghumman
Thursday, 07 Jan, 2010
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly has called for a review of the mechanism for fixing the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to end what it termed monopoly of a private sector company which, some PAC members alleged, has been showering favours on influential people to strengthen its control on the sector.
At a special meeting of the committee held on Wednesday, Khwaja Asif of the PML-N and another member said that a former prime minister, former chairman of NAB, former governor of Punjab, two former interior ministers, a sitting federal minister, incumbent president of the National Bank of Pakistan and a prominent leader of the lawyers’ movement were among a large number of people who had been granted the quota by the Jamshoro Joint Venture Ltd (JJVL) on favourable terms.
According to Mr Asif, JJVL Chairman Iqbal Z. Ahmad had shared with almost everybody “in the corridors of power” the windfall profits he had managed over the years in the LPG sector.
The PAC meeting discussed the recent 18 per cent increase in gas price by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) and continuous losses reported by both Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL). PAC chairman Chaudhry Nisar Ali of the PML-N presided over the meeting.
Mr Asif said that those who had benefited from Mr Ahmad’s “benevolence” included former prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, former chairman of NAB Gen (retd) Munir Hafeez, federal Minister for Investment Senator Gulzar Ahmad, former interior ministers Gen (retd) Moeenuddin and Aftab Sherpao, former governor of Punjab Gen (retd) Khalid Maqbool, NBP President Syed Ali Raza and Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan.
These people, he said, got gas companies registered in the names of their relatives and they earned millions of rupees from the LPG quota given by the JJVL.
Others beneficiaries included Captain (retd) Bisharat and Brigadier (retd) Siraj, friends of Gen Pervez Musharraf; Gen (retd) Tariq Majeed; Humayun Farid, diplomat; Gen (retd) Rehmat Khan, Chairman of Pakistan Cement; Rizwan Punjwani, head of NBP Credit, Karachi; Ishtiaq Asif of NBP, Karachi; and Jamal Akbar Ansari, a friend of Iqbal Ahmad.
“By all means it was bribe which Mr Ahmad used to get favours from people in power,” Mr Asif said. Members of the PAC representing PPP, PML-Q, and PML-N supported the contention that the LPG quota had been misused.
Accepting the fact that massive irregularities had been committed in the past, Secretary Petroleum Mahmood Salim Mahmood said the LPG sector needed a thorough scrutiny, especially its price fixing mechanism. Since the JJVL had a monopoly in the market it was doing business at its own terms, the secretary argued.
Last month, the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) had imposed a fine of Rs278 million, around 4 per cent of profits, on the JJVL for cartelisation in the LPG sector.
The PAC was informed that the production cost of one kg of LPG was Rs9, and it gas was sold at Rs72 to the end consumer. And, 95 per cent of LPG is produced locally. “With this kind of price mechanism in place, we are mercilessly fleecing our poor people,” Rana Mehmoodul Hassan, another member of the committee remarked.
When asked, Ogra Chairman Touqir Sadiq said that under the existing rules the authority had no provision to check profit-making in the LPG sector.
The committee asked the secretary petroleum and natural resources to come back in 10 days with an actionable plan to effectively control the LPG price.
The committee also directed managing directors of the SSGC and SNGPL to explain their price mechanism in the next meeting with special reference to the recent 18 per cent increase in gas price. “Don’t force people to come on the road,” Chaudhry Nisar remarked.
He criticised the government and said it appeared to be “sleeping on the issue of gas price. Had it been managed well, there was no need to call this special meeting of the PAC.”
The committee decided to conduct a special audit of both the gas companies and asked Auditor General Tanvir Ali Agha to make arrangements for the purpose.
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Haroon-ur-Rasheed’s column on this topic:
Here is Aitzaz Ahsan’s explanation in Daily Jang (11 Jan 2010) in response to Haroon-ur-Rasheed’s column:
In addition to the above, there is at least one more case in which Aitzaz Ahsan was forced to offer some explanation, i.e., BoP scam (Haris Steel Mills)
Accused claims Aitzaz took Rs 30m to provide relief
Aaj Kal Report
LAHORE: Supreme Court Bar Association former president Aitzaz Ahsan charged Rs 30 million for getting a favourable verdict in the Rs 9 billion Bank of Punjab (BoP) scam case, Haris Steel Mills Director Sheikh Munir has claimed.
Munir levelled the charges in a video statement while officials of the National Accountability Bureau were taking him for a court hearing.
He said that Aitzaz had requested the Supreme Court to transfer the BoP case to some other bench, as he had announced during the lawyers’ movement that he would not appear before any bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. However, the case is still being heard by the chief justice. Munir said besides Aitzaz, Babar Awan, Ali Waseem, Malik Qayyum, Sharifuddin Pirzada and several others had received millions of rupees to clear Haris Steel’s name from the scam, but none of them was pursuing the case now.
Munir and his brother, Haris Steel Chief Executive Sheikh Afzal, are accused of securing a loan of Rs 9 billion on bogus documents in connivance with the bank’s officials.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\12\13\story_13-12-2009_pg1_4
LAHORE: Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan says his law firm had taken Rs15 million as fee from Haris Steel Mills to defend its case in the Lahore High Court.
Rejecting media reports that he had received Rs30 million from Shaikh Afzal, owner of the Haris Steel Mills, to obtain a court verdict in his client’s favour, the former Supreme Court Bar Association president said it was baseless and rubbish.
‘During my whole career as lawyer, I never charged a single penny from my clients on this assurance that he or she would get a favourable verdict,’ the PPP leader said at a press conference here on Monday.
The mills is accused of defaulting on a Rs9 billion loan it had obtained from the Bank of Punjab (BoP) against bogus documents in connivance with some BoP officials.
Ahsan, who played an important role in the restoration of deposed judges, said the Aitzaz Ahsan and Associates had signed four agreements with eight directors of the Haris Steel Mills to defend their case in the LHC’s Rawalpindi bench in 2008. He said the record of the payment was present in the income tax return. He said according to the agreements, his law firm would defend its clients if the steel mills case came to the LHC.
Afzal, who was brought back from Malaysia last month, had already informed the Supreme Court that he had paid Rs35 million to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Babar Awan, Rs10 million to former president’s adviser Sharifuddin Pirzada, Rs20 million to former attorney-general Malik Qayyum and Rs7.5 million to Ali Waseem, son of PML-Q Senator Wasim Sajjad to ‘obtain a court verdict in their favour’.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/16-rs15m+fee+charged+in+steel+mills+case+says+aitzaz-hs-05
It appears that LUBP is now trying to defame Aitzaz Ahsan, a member of the CEC of the party that it claims to support, simply for the crime that Aitzaz supported the Lawyers Movement which this blog, and PPP, openly opposed.
It is interesting to note that this blog has not posted details of the corruption done by PPP member, Senator Khosa, by PPP member Senator Babar Awan, the money laundering and corruption of PPP member, Senator Rahman Malik and others. Its selective choice of targetting Aitzaz, even when anyone who has been dealing with LPG industry knows that since 2000 the LPG business has been deregularized and so it does not require a quota, and that Aitzaz’s company was founded after this deregularization.
Perhaps this blog really believes in the philosophy of the “best revenge” of PPP and is taking best revenge from Aitzaz for reinstating the CJP.
Dear Universal Daddy
You are more than welcome to submit an article detailing corruption of a PPP leader. We will publish it.
@Universal Daddy
For a (relatively complete) list of articles that LUBP published on Aitzaz Ahsan:
http://criticalppp.com/archives/tag/aitzaz-ahsan
Here you will see articles such as:
In defense of Aitzaz Ahsan: What do ordinary Pakistanis think?
http://criticalppp.com/archives/390
We support Aitzaz Ahsan of PPP; not Hamid Khan of Imran Khan’s PTI in the Lahore Bar Elections
http://criticalppp.com/archives/429
Aitzaz Ahsan explains his decisions: Association with the PPP; the pace of the Lawyers’ Movement; the Long March Dharna, and the war in FATA
http://criticalppp.com/archives/447
Aitzaz Ahsan, PPP and Long March: A critical perspective – by Abbas Ather
http://criticalppp.com/archives/981
You may also like to read the following testimony by a fellow blogger Shaheryar Ali in which he writes:
“Let US Build Pakistan for the whole period of Lawyers Movement kept supporting the deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan, even when the PPP government was using delaying tactics. The photograph of his lordship the most honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Chuadhry was prominently and permanently on display on side bar of the web site with explicit declaration: “This blog supports the restoration of deposed judges”. I bet this also came from the presidential palace?”
http://criticalppp.com/archives/1617
We have also published a number of columns criticising President Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani, such as:
Who can tolerate an independent judiciary?
http://criticalppp.com/archives/1102
Shame on you Zardari, Shame on you Shahbaz Sharif, Time to say “NO” to opportunists i.e., “Lotas”
http://criticalppp.com/archives/369
I also reiterate what Omar Khattab wrote to you: “You are more than welcome to submit an article detailing corruption of a PPP leader. We will publish it.”
Let me state, in the end, that we endeavour to be transparent in our inclination and direction – as is obvious from the sub-title of this blog. Please don’t misinterpret that.
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Gas prices would always go up that is why we should move to alternative energy:-`
gas prices are still on the rise today, we should go Alternative Fuel**;
gas prices would steadily go up and the supply dwindle and the saudis like to increase their profit margin””:
Babar Awan calls on SC Bar President, gives Rs. 1 million cheque October 18, 2010 by Trend PK Filed under Pakistan
http://www.trendpk.com/babar-awan-calls-on-sc-bar-president-gives-rs-1-million-cheque/60378.html
Federal Law Minister Babar Awan called on the President of Supreme Court Bar Association Qazi Anwar here on Monday, Dunya News reported. The federal minister gave a cheque worth Rs. 1 million to Qazi Anwar.
Qazi Anwar welcomed the minister upon arrival in the bar in Islamabad. Qazi Anwar said that the cheque was due since March this year and soon after receiving the cheque he gave it to the employees of the bar. Qazi Anwar told the media personnel that he has advised the federal minister that there should be a continuous contact and correspondence between the bar and the federal law ministry.
Federal Law Minister said that there are a few matters that require all of us to sit together and resolve. He also said that there is a need of strengthening the constitutional system of the country to progress and develop. We cannot afford to amend or alter the constitution, he added, legislative process is not up to the expectations. The law ministry seeks guidance from the bar councils, bar associations and the Supreme Court Bar Association.
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