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Originally Posted by Spock
Actually, its more like 10 crores and above, and you can mark off E-7 from the list, its way more than that 
However, not all the sectors went like that. What Musharraf did was basically embezzlement, because he obtained this farmhouse illegally. This was not meant to be allocated for residential purposes. |
When cities grow, areas that were once farm lands often get convereted to residential areas. This is to be expected and infact the reason many of us buy rural properties. There isnt a sahih hadith or verse in the Quran that says these areas will not become suburbia. These were policies instituted by Gen. Yahya Khan 30 years earlier. However, Islamabad is a different place now. There is a shortage of residential properties in the capital. Things would be even more expensive if the farms were not converted to residential use. In this case, once again, it wasnt just Musharraf and his farm that benefitted when the lands were converted from rural to suburban use. Many people who owned lands in chak Shezad benefitted. This is the difference between making money by embezzling funds from goverment contracts and land development.
Secondly let me point out that that Musharraf's dad had a house in F8 long before Musharraf became a General. In addition Musharrafs brother was working as a doctor in the USA since the 70s. So the family would have had a lot of money to buy properties in Pakistan thru the 80s, 90s and early 2000 at discounted miliatry prices. Is it possible that non secular, hardline sharia following radicals in Pakistan are conducting a witch hunt in revenge for his policies against them?