Pakistani newspaper Express Tribune has reported that 16 judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan were quietly allotted residential plots worth lakhs of rupees each in Islamabad’s expensive sectors between 2008 and 2010. The allotments were on the direct orders of the Prime Minister’s Secretariat under a scheme somewhat inappropriately called the “Prime Minister’s Assistance Package”. The newspaper writes that, apart from this, 14 judges of the Supreme Court — both sitting and retired — were given two plots each by the government in violation of official policy.
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