Looks like the first salvo of the residents has hit the bull's eye. At least, it is proving itself life-threarening. It seems to have caused a real panic in Khalid Sultan's camp.
Khalid Sultan has called a special meeting of the Managing Committee. It is going to be held on Saturday (tomorrow).
Some property dealers and agents, who make their living from crumbs dropped off Khalid Sultan's lavish table, were today calling around other property dealers to come on board against what they think are unruly elements - the residents who have asked Khalid Sultan to open certain documents as the Bye-Laws of the society required.
A property dealer, Mian Anwarul Haq, who is also a government employee but makes money on the side when he gets a call from Muhammad Hussain in the Society Office giving him an inside scoop about some juicy plot, has written a letter saying that "some mischievious persons" are trying to disturb managing Committee. Today he approached some residents and asked them to sign his letter in support of Khalid Sultan. He was snubbed and brushed off by most of the persons he approached.
Farooq Gondal, who was given by Khalid Sultan the lease of the Society grave yard for five years alongwith four shops in Sutlej Market, sent some guys in a white car last night and then this morning to Hajji Sana Ullah's house in Indus Block of the Colony. They wanted to know why he had written a letter to the President of the society against Farooq Gondal's wrong-doings.
Hajji Sana Ullah reportedly told them that he had not written a letter about their wrong doing but he had written the letter to ask Kalid Sultan and Managing Committee that why they were not following the Bye-Laws. They had their own stories, of the corruption of Society employees and Members of Managing committee, to tell. But hajji Sana Ullah was not interested.
The rsidents of the Society were not idle either.
There was another letter, from residents, making rounds of the Colony today. You can call it a second salvo. This letter has been signed by scores of people. I have a copy in my possession and it is being reproduced here:
The President and the Members of the Managing Committee,
The Provincial Government Employees Cooperative Housing Society Ltd., Gujranwala.
C.c. Registrar Punjab Cooperative Societies, The Mall, Lahore.
C.c. Deputy Registrar Cooperative Societies, Opp. Central Jail, Gujranwala.
Dated: July 9, 2009
Subject: Massive and Blatant Violations of Bye-Laws of PGECHS (D. C. Colony)
Respected Sir/Sirs,
The undersigned members of the PGECH Society (D. C. Colony) Gujranwala, hereby, inform you that massive and blatant violations of the Bye-Laws of the said society have been/ are being committed by the President and the Members of the Managing Committee. The Managing Committee has ceased to exist as a legal entity as couple of members no more qualify to be the members of the Managing Committee under one pretext or the other as per Bye-Laws of the said society.
a) Major (R) Irshad Ahmad Chaudhry, Mr. Fazeel Asghar, Mr. Inayatullah Siyal, and Mr. Zia Mahmood and some other persons were/ are not legal members of the said society at the time when they are/ were participating in the decision making by the Managing Committee, the decisions taken in said meetings are to be considered illegal and thus null and void;
b) Some of the Members of the Managing Committee have repeatedly failed to show up for three or more consecutive meetings of the same but they have not been taken off the membership of Managing Committee or replaced by legal members of the society as required by Article 32 (1) and (9);
c) The Secretary of the Society cannot/ “will not exercise his powers as elected Secretary/ Member of the Management Committee if he gets salary” as per Articles 32 (5) read along with Article 39 (2) of the Society Bye-Laws but in direct contravention of the above mentioned Articles of the Bye-Laws ex-secretary was signing checks of huge amounts even though he was a paid employee and so not authorized to do so.
d) According to the Article 35 read along with Article 34 (9) “[I]n their conduct of affairs of society the members of the managing committee shall exercise the prudence and diligence of ordinary men of business and shall be personally responsible for any loss sustained through their gross negligence, carelessness, inefficiency and irresponsibility or through any breach of law, rule or Bye-Law”. This particular Article is invoked since hundreds of millions of Rupees have been misappropriated under your watch and the managing Committee was supposed to “keep an eye over any kind of mis-appropriation” but failed to do so and was to “take criminal action or start civil proceeding” but never did so, hence, you are personally “responsible to make up such losses”;
e) Referring to our letter dated June 29, 2009 received by society office on July 4, 2009 with Diary No. 544/09 we are still waiting for the “registers, books, documents” to be “open to inspection of member, interested in affairs of society” as reads Article 41 of the Bye-Laws of society.
Yours truly,
Residents are making sure this letter is in front of members of the Managing Committee when they take seats around the meeting table tomorrow.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
What Is Wrong With These Pictures?
What is wrong with these pictures?
Apparently, nothing.
They are simply pictures of two houses that look similar. Sitting back to back in the Sutlej Block of D C Colony, Gujranwala. Exact replicas.
But what you don't see in the pictures is what is wrong with them.
One of them belongs to Arshad Cheema, who recently got out of Secretary's post of D C Colony. The other house is owned by Muhammad Hussain who is an employee, a very influencial one, of the same colony and is still very much there.
These houses not only look similar but they are being built by the same contractor.
The similarities don't end there though.
Their owners helped themselves financially from the same (apparently bottomless) pit of money called in other words: D C Colony. This is all happening under the watchful eyes of Khalid Sultan and his hand-picked Management Committee members who received their own cut before they allowed to let it happen.
They are all stealing from the same cookie jar.
Now some fresh news: I have heard from a very reliable source that the new secretary, Zafar Niazi, is upset that the residents are demanding to see the books as Bye-Laws give them entitlement. He admits that residents' demand is legal but still believes there must not be "undue" interference from lowly residents. There must not be any transparency in Management Committee's dirty dealings, he thinks.
Major Irshad who recently resigned from his seat in the Management Committee has been seen in society's office today. I believe he is being pressurized to take his resignation back. But he has promised residents that his is firm in his decision and he won't become "Abdul Hamid Dogar" again.
We will see.
There is news floating around that a meeting of the Management Committee has been called on Saturday where residents' demands are going to be discussed.
Monday, July 6, 2009
A Friend Betrayed
The meeting of the Management Committee at D C Colony office on June 12, 2009 was a decoy meeting. The real meeting had already been held somewhere else, according to some sources, in Islamabad before this dummy meeting.
In the Islamabad meeting Khalid Sultan decided to betray his friend, Khawaja Saleh.
How?
If you read item # 14 on the agenda of the meeting held at D C Colony office on June 12 you can easily figure out what must have happened in Islamabad.
The heading of the agenda item is: "Addressing The Residents' Demand for Participation In The Affairs Of The Society".
It says:
"Regarding this matter a meeting was arranged between Society President, Khalid Sultan and resident members at the residence of Khawaja Muhammad Saleh. Those present inlcuded Khawaja Muhammad Saleh, Talat Hameed Rathore, Mirza Muhammad Younas, Muhammad Khalid Butt, Arif Mahmood, Younas Butt, Dr. Muhammad Ali, Dr Amjad Chattha, Ziaullah Irfani, as well as Muhammad Arshad Cheema were Secretary of the society.
During the meeting resident members demanded that there must be representation of the residents in the Management Committee and sub-committees be made in which residents must be included. Moreover, the demanded that Khawaja Muhammad Saleh be nominated as a Representative of the residents.
Then the items disposes off the whole matter thus:
Major (R) Irshad Ahmad Chaudhry is already an elected member to represent residents and he regularly brings up the problems of the residents before the Management Committee. The Management Committee has already made organized sub-committees to run the affairs of the society in the best possible way. So there is no need for more sub-committees.
However the matter is brought up before the Management Committee.
Remember this simple explanation was never provided at the meeting arranged at Khawaja Saleh's house. Rather Khalid Sultan had promised that starting this coming December there will be sixty per cent representation by the rsident members and the approval of Khawaja Saleh's induction as a member of the Management Committee will be taken in committee's next meeting. Arshad Cheema was ordered to put these decisions taken at the said meeting in the minutes. It was a done deal.
But that was not to happen.
Khalid Sultan broke the word he had given in presence of everyone at the lunch meeting at Khawaja Saleh's house.
Actually, he had received from Khawaja Saleh what he wanted when he took him for a ride and asked him to use his influence with one of the government department heads and then dumped him.
Khawaja Saleh felt insulted and duped. Rightly so.
Major Irshad, who was bandied as a representative of the residents and made an excuse to keep Khawaja Saleh out, resigned from the management Committee when he heard that a new secretary had been planted only one day after the Management Committee meeting without consulting anyone at the Management Committee meeting on June 12. He was furious that he was not kept in the loop.
He was also upset that Dr Zafar Chaudhry had criticized him and called him as ineffective in the meeting and Khalid Sultan never came to his defence.
Now there is no resident representation in the Management Committee at all. Khawaja Saleh is still out in the cold and livid. Arshad Cheema is enriched and gone. Residents are as helpless as before. The Core Group has more reasons to be enraged.
And Khalid Sultan rules the roost as he did before.
In the Islamabad meeting Khalid Sultan decided to betray his friend, Khawaja Saleh.
How?
If you read item # 14 on the agenda of the meeting held at D C Colony office on June 12 you can easily figure out what must have happened in Islamabad.
The heading of the agenda item is: "Addressing The Residents' Demand for Participation In The Affairs Of The Society".
It says:
"Regarding this matter a meeting was arranged between Society President, Khalid Sultan and resident members at the residence of Khawaja Muhammad Saleh. Those present inlcuded Khawaja Muhammad Saleh, Talat Hameed Rathore, Mirza Muhammad Younas, Muhammad Khalid Butt, Arif Mahmood, Younas Butt, Dr. Muhammad Ali, Dr Amjad Chattha, Ziaullah Irfani, as well as Muhammad Arshad Cheema were Secretary of the society.
During the meeting resident members demanded that there must be representation of the residents in the Management Committee and sub-committees be made in which residents must be included. Moreover, the demanded that Khawaja Muhammad Saleh be nominated as a Representative of the residents.
Then the items disposes off the whole matter thus:
Major (R) Irshad Ahmad Chaudhry is already an elected member to represent residents and he regularly brings up the problems of the residents before the Management Committee. The Management Committee has already made organized sub-committees to run the affairs of the society in the best possible way. So there is no need for more sub-committees.
However the matter is brought up before the Management Committee.
Remember this simple explanation was never provided at the meeting arranged at Khawaja Saleh's house. Rather Khalid Sultan had promised that starting this coming December there will be sixty per cent representation by the rsident members and the approval of Khawaja Saleh's induction as a member of the Management Committee will be taken in committee's next meeting. Arshad Cheema was ordered to put these decisions taken at the said meeting in the minutes. It was a done deal.
But that was not to happen.
Khalid Sultan broke the word he had given in presence of everyone at the lunch meeting at Khawaja Saleh's house.
Actually, he had received from Khawaja Saleh what he wanted when he took him for a ride and asked him to use his influence with one of the government department heads and then dumped him.
Khawaja Saleh felt insulted and duped. Rightly so.
Major Irshad, who was bandied as a representative of the residents and made an excuse to keep Khawaja Saleh out, resigned from the management Committee when he heard that a new secretary had been planted only one day after the Management Committee meeting without consulting anyone at the Management Committee meeting on June 12. He was furious that he was not kept in the loop.
He was also upset that Dr Zafar Chaudhry had criticized him and called him as ineffective in the meeting and Khalid Sultan never came to his defence.
Now there is no resident representation in the Management Committee at all. Khawaja Saleh is still out in the cold and livid. Arshad Cheema is enriched and gone. Residents are as helpless as before. The Core Group has more reasons to be enraged.
And Khalid Sultan rules the roost as he did before.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
The First Encounter
Khalid Sultan came to Khawaja Saleh's house ostensibly to listens to and address the concerns of the residents but actually to dangle some carrot before Khawaja saleh.
But the meeting turned into the First Encounter.
Before I tell you what exactly happened there let me fill you in with some background so we are on the same page.
For quite some time residents had been fuming because they had certain grievances against the way things were being run by Khalid Sultan and his sychophants.
Prior to this gathering at 16 Jhelum, Khawaja Saleh's residence, a larger group of residents had coalesced around a core of independent, like-minded, and hard nose critics who had the guts to stand up to a bunch of arrogant, incompetent crooks who were running the society and colony into ground.
This core group spent most of their evenings discussing the latest news emerging from the society office or just shooting the breeze.
One day, this core group was invited to an inauguration of couple of shops at Sutlej Market where then secretary, Arshad Cheema, was chief guest. At that time the group tried to request the secretary to beef up security arrangements of the colony and address some other issues. But, first, Arshad Cheema tried to shoo them off. But when they proved themselves to be hard nuts to crack he acquiesced and promised to have weekly formal meetings with them.
But he never showed up for any of the promised meetings.
The group decided to write a letter to Khalid Sultan informing him of what had transpired/ not transpired.
Lo and behold, Arshad Cheema arranged a meeting in Sutlej Park and proposed that Khawaja Saleh be made a member of the Management Committee on behalf of the residents.
One of the core group told him that the group had their own plan and proposals and they would be discussed at a suitable time.
At the end of the said meeting Khawaja Saleh publicly announced that Khalid Sultan was coming to a lunch meeting at 16 Jhelum and he invited the residents to be there for the meeting.
That lunch meeting turned into the first encounter when one of the residents bluntly told Khalid Sultan and Arshad Cheema that the corrupt ways of Agha Shah Muhammad's days were still being perpetuated at certain level and to certain extent and there must be more than fifty per cent representation of the residents in the management Committee.
That was a grave allegation and a bold proposal. (The resident who had brought this issue up, later, told Khalid Sultan later that he had proof of what he had said in balck and white, in his pocket, if he was interested. Khalid Sultan, obviously, was not interested.)
To cool things off people were called to the lunch table where Khalid Sultan promised that residents would have sixty per cent representation starting in December this year and to start things off in the right direction Khawaja Saleh would be made a member of the Management Committee in the next Committee meeting.
Khalid Sultan asked Arshad Cheema to put these two decisions in the minutes for approval in the next meeting.
I will tell you what happened in the next meeting in my next post. (Probably you can guess it right.)
But the meeting turned into the First Encounter.
Before I tell you what exactly happened there let me fill you in with some background so we are on the same page.
For quite some time residents had been fuming because they had certain grievances against the way things were being run by Khalid Sultan and his sychophants.
Prior to this gathering at 16 Jhelum, Khawaja Saleh's residence, a larger group of residents had coalesced around a core of independent, like-minded, and hard nose critics who had the guts to stand up to a bunch of arrogant, incompetent crooks who were running the society and colony into ground.
This core group spent most of their evenings discussing the latest news emerging from the society office or just shooting the breeze.
One day, this core group was invited to an inauguration of couple of shops at Sutlej Market where then secretary, Arshad Cheema, was chief guest. At that time the group tried to request the secretary to beef up security arrangements of the colony and address some other issues. But, first, Arshad Cheema tried to shoo them off. But when they proved themselves to be hard nuts to crack he acquiesced and promised to have weekly formal meetings with them.
But he never showed up for any of the promised meetings.
The group decided to write a letter to Khalid Sultan informing him of what had transpired/ not transpired.
Lo and behold, Arshad Cheema arranged a meeting in Sutlej Park and proposed that Khawaja Saleh be made a member of the Management Committee on behalf of the residents.
One of the core group told him that the group had their own plan and proposals and they would be discussed at a suitable time.
At the end of the said meeting Khawaja Saleh publicly announced that Khalid Sultan was coming to a lunch meeting at 16 Jhelum and he invited the residents to be there for the meeting.
That lunch meeting turned into the first encounter when one of the residents bluntly told Khalid Sultan and Arshad Cheema that the corrupt ways of Agha Shah Muhammad's days were still being perpetuated at certain level and to certain extent and there must be more than fifty per cent representation of the residents in the management Committee.
That was a grave allegation and a bold proposal. (The resident who had brought this issue up, later, told Khalid Sultan later that he had proof of what he had said in balck and white, in his pocket, if he was interested. Khalid Sultan, obviously, was not interested.)
To cool things off people were called to the lunch table where Khalid Sultan promised that residents would have sixty per cent representation starting in December this year and to start things off in the right direction Khawaja Saleh would be made a member of the Management Committee in the next Committee meeting.
Khalid Sultan asked Arshad Cheema to put these two decisions in the minutes for approval in the next meeting.
I will tell you what happened in the next meeting in my next post. (Probably you can guess it right.)
Friday, July 3, 2009
In Respect of Dear Departed
I would have to take off today.
Khalid Sultan's mother died last night. Her funeral service was at 10 this morning.
In respect of the departed soul I will keep silent for one day.
May God bless her and may she rest in peace!
Khalid Sultan's mother died last night. Her funeral service was at 10 this morning.
In respect of the departed soul I will keep silent for one day.
May God bless her and may she rest in peace!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Members Fire Off the First Salvo
An interesting development!
I have found out that the residents of D C Colony finally got together at the residence of Khawaja Muhammad Saleh last night and decided to fire the first salvo in the fight against the corrupt ways of Khalid Sultan and other members of Management Committee.
They decided to lob two hot letters at Khalid Sultan and his accomplices.
In the first letter they put on record some of what they called violations of the Bye-Laws of the society and some of the financial irregularities and and sought clarification from Khalid Sultan and his cronies.
This letter is signed by Hajji Sana Ullah, Patron-in-Chief of a nascent organization of the residents called "D C Colony Welfare Council."
In the other letter they have asked Khalid Sultan and the Management Committee to provide them with copies of certain documents citing Article 41 of the Bye-Laws. This letter is signed by about thirty members of the cooperative society.
The copies of the documents they are looking for include i) register of members of the society; ii) cash book showing income and expenses; iii) minutes book of the General Meetings; iv) stock register; v) property register showing all the purchases and sales of properties in the colony; vi) register showing the development schedule and timely execution; vii) allotment register; viii) Master Plan.
They have given Khalid Sultan seven to ten days to get back to them otherwise they would take the next step and go to competent authorities.
Copies of the both letters have been sent to Registrar and Deputy Registrar Cooperative societies.
This blogger has possession of copies of both letters.
I believe members have gone straight for Khalid Sultan's jugular and he will find himself in deep shit pretty soon but only if members stay united and focused.
I guess he would soon realize he was better off had he kept his word. He had promised residents at Khawaja Saleh's house about a month ago that they would have sixty per cent representation in the Management Committee starting in December. As a first step Khawaja Saleh was to be inducted in the next Management Committee meeting.
But that, of course, never happened.
What really happened there was vintage Khalid Sultan. I will give you the details of what transpired in the Management Committee and some glimpses of Khalid Sultan's meeting with residents in the next posts.
I have found out that the residents of D C Colony finally got together at the residence of Khawaja Muhammad Saleh last night and decided to fire the first salvo in the fight against the corrupt ways of Khalid Sultan and other members of Management Committee.
They decided to lob two hot letters at Khalid Sultan and his accomplices.
In the first letter they put on record some of what they called violations of the Bye-Laws of the society and some of the financial irregularities and and sought clarification from Khalid Sultan and his cronies.
This letter is signed by Hajji Sana Ullah, Patron-in-Chief of a nascent organization of the residents called "D C Colony Welfare Council."
In the other letter they have asked Khalid Sultan and the Management Committee to provide them with copies of certain documents citing Article 41 of the Bye-Laws. This letter is signed by about thirty members of the cooperative society.
The copies of the documents they are looking for include i) register of members of the society; ii) cash book showing income and expenses; iii) minutes book of the General Meetings; iv) stock register; v) property register showing all the purchases and sales of properties in the colony; vi) register showing the development schedule and timely execution; vii) allotment register; viii) Master Plan.
They have given Khalid Sultan seven to ten days to get back to them otherwise they would take the next step and go to competent authorities.
Copies of the both letters have been sent to Registrar and Deputy Registrar Cooperative societies.
This blogger has possession of copies of both letters.
I believe members have gone straight for Khalid Sultan's jugular and he will find himself in deep shit pretty soon but only if members stay united and focused.
I guess he would soon realize he was better off had he kept his word. He had promised residents at Khawaja Saleh's house about a month ago that they would have sixty per cent representation in the Management Committee starting in December. As a first step Khawaja Saleh was to be inducted in the next Management Committee meeting.
But that, of course, never happened.
What really happened there was vintage Khalid Sultan. I will give you the details of what transpired in the Management Committee and some glimpses of Khalid Sultan's meeting with residents in the next posts.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Selling The Whole Grave Yard
As I wrote in my post yesterday the Bye-Laws of the D C Colony society are a nice piece of work.
They offer quite effective safeguards and water-tight guarantees against fraud and pilfering. But, unfortunately, not against day light robbery.
Especially if the robbery is being committed by a fertile mind like the one Khalid Sultan, the president of the society, carries on his hunched shoulders. His ample brain power would be worthless if he cannot make his way into the treasure trove called society funds, ignoring and completely disregarding the Bye-laws with complete impunity.
For instance, Article 34 (8) says that the plots of the colony can only be allotted “as per approved Master Plan” and “spaces reserved for open places, parks, mosque, hospital, and grave yards, etc will not be reduced/ changed in any case.” That is what the Bye-Law says.
But does Khalid Sultan give a damn?
Let us see.
The site reserved for fire station, an amenity essentially required to save life and limb and property in case of fire, has been sub-divided into residential plots and plots either sold or doled out to well-placed people to recruit them as potential allies to forestall any future probe into any wrong doing.
Fire station was not the only target of Khalid Sultan's never-quenching and ever-increasing greed.
The sites reserved for parks, markets even hospital have been butchered into residential or commercial plots in direct contravention of the said Article of the Bye-Laws.
The grave yard of the society did not escape Khalid Sultan's voracity either.
He leased it out to one of his cronies, Farooq Gondal, for multiple years.
Petty thieves dig graves at night and rip coffin shrouds of the freshly buried dead bodies. But Khalid Sultan is no petty thief. He is a highway man. A day light robber. He has sold the whole grave yard.
But before he sold the grave yard he must have sold his soul, first, to Satan.
What a pathetic president this otherwise decent D C Colony has!
They offer quite effective safeguards and water-tight guarantees against fraud and pilfering. But, unfortunately, not against day light robbery.
Especially if the robbery is being committed by a fertile mind like the one Khalid Sultan, the president of the society, carries on his hunched shoulders. His ample brain power would be worthless if he cannot make his way into the treasure trove called society funds, ignoring and completely disregarding the Bye-laws with complete impunity.
For instance, Article 34 (8) says that the plots of the colony can only be allotted “as per approved Master Plan” and “spaces reserved for open places, parks, mosque, hospital, and grave yards, etc will not be reduced/ changed in any case.” That is what the Bye-Law says.
But does Khalid Sultan give a damn?
Let us see.
The site reserved for fire station, an amenity essentially required to save life and limb and property in case of fire, has been sub-divided into residential plots and plots either sold or doled out to well-placed people to recruit them as potential allies to forestall any future probe into any wrong doing.
Fire station was not the only target of Khalid Sultan's never-quenching and ever-increasing greed.
The sites reserved for parks, markets even hospital have been butchered into residential or commercial plots in direct contravention of the said Article of the Bye-Laws.
The grave yard of the society did not escape Khalid Sultan's voracity either.
He leased it out to one of his cronies, Farooq Gondal, for multiple years.
Petty thieves dig graves at night and rip coffin shrouds of the freshly buried dead bodies. But Khalid Sultan is no petty thief. He is a highway man. A day light robber. He has sold the whole grave yard.
But before he sold the grave yard he must have sold his soul, first, to Satan.
What a pathetic president this otherwise decent D C Colony has!
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