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Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal Act (I of 1"2)­ ---- Preamble --- Prime Minister's Salary, Allowances and Privileges Act (LIX ot 1975), Preamble & Sched.---Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Arts. 199 & 2A --- Constitutional petition --- Distribution of funds by Prime Minister from Bait-ul-Mal and from discretionary fund --- legality --- Various financial irregularities of serious nature involving huge amount of funds which indicated the magnitude of bungling and financial in-discipline at the highest level in the Federal Government, whose duty it was to control others, High Court preferred to refer the matter to the Care-taker Prime Minister, for taking such action in public interest as he may deem proper with detailed observations and disposed of the constitutional petition accordingly. ORDER This writ petition, like certain other writ petitions on collateral subject of misuse of powers by some high-placed State functionaries, has also emanated from W.P.No.7459 of 1993 which, in turn, had originated from the Press reports, alleging illegal and arbitrary allotment of a large number of residential plots by Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo, the former Chief Minister of the Punjab, during his short tenure of less than three months, especially during the last day of his chief minister-ship, in various Housing Schemes of different official Departmental Agencies, mostly of the, Lahore Development Authority. 2. During the hearing of original Writ Petition No. 7459 of 1993 on 8-8-1993, Aljehad Trust, Rawalpindi, represented by Mr. Habib-ul-Wahab Al­Khari and Sh. Muhammad Salim, Advocates, which by that time, on -its own request, was allowed to join enquiry proceedings as a writ petitioner, made. an application for summoning the record of Federal Bait-ul-Mal from Dr. Rashid Randhawa, its Ameen, in order to ascertain as to how the Prime Minister had been spending the money from Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal Fund and what sort of record was being maintained by him. The application was accompanied by copy of * the letter dated 6-7-1992 written by the Additional Secretary (E&F) of the Prime Minister's Secretariat, Islamabad, to the secretary-general .Finance Division for the release of…

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