Govt orders probe into Pak family getting jobs
Shariq Majeed
Tribune News Service

Rajouri, November 3
After reports of a Pak family managing permanent resident certificates of Jammu and Kashmir and government jobs for its four members, the state government has ordered an inquiry into the matter.

The letter written by the finance commissioner’s (home) office to the deputy commissioner’s office here on October 17 with subject line “holding of inquiry by Sudershan Sharma, additional commissioner, Jammu, into the issuance of PRC (state subject certificates) to a Pak family”, says: “Whereas it has come to the notice of the government that four members of a Pak family have got government jobs after obtaining certificates from the office of the deputy commissioner, Rajouri.

“Whereas, it has become necessary to inquire as to how these Pak nationals have succeeded to manage the certificates and the government jobs. “Now, therefore, it is ordered that Sudershan Sharma, additional commissioner, Jammu, will hold a probe and submit his report within 30 days.”

Official sources said Sarwar Hussain Tariq, a Pakistani, had migrated to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) in 1965 along with his wife Ghulam Zohra and had attained Pakistani nationality. In POK, Zohra had given birth to three sons and three daughters.

On October 22, 1980, Sarwar Hussain along with his wife and six children came on Pakistani passport to Ujjahan in the Thanamandi area in Jammu and Kashmir on one-month visa. However, before their visa would have expired, Sarwar managed to get it extended by another two months, the sources said.

The government tried to deport the family to Pakistan, but Sarwar approached the high court seeking directions for the resettlement in the state on the grounds that they were already permanent residents of this state, they said.

On August 19, 1982, the high court stayed their deportation and since then the family had been under surveillance, the sources added.