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Originally Posted by bob_chasm
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?
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Thanks for bringing in the 'religious' angle to the post for no reason
Musharraf is no saint, he embezzled and as a result he and his top lieutenants, including his little pooch Shaukat Aziz got these farmhouses. Why do you think the Supreme Court took this case for a hearing then? We actually have proof unlike the speculations you are presenting. As for your new theory about him getting money from his brothers and sisters, there are ways to check that. You cannot just expect his brother to send him fat checks to Pakistan to buy property, just like that. Also, the army isnt that saintly either, they take over land through extortion and thuggerish manners too. Someone here suggested he had 'wealthy children'. Lets see now, he has two kids, and lets just rule out the possibility that he gets money from his married daughter (though he did get money by selling Pakistanis
), leaving his son, who has worked for Watson Wyatt Worldwide from 2000-2005, and now works for ePlanet Ventures (2008-present), so we can rule him out too. Another thing that we are forgetting that he was a very lavish spender. The mujra sessions in the Army House, the hefty fee paid to lawyers to defend his unconstituitional actions, the learjets, his personal bookselling tour at the expense of the nation, all of this cost alot of money too.