ISLAMABAD: The ministry of housing has forcibly and illegally got a house vacated from Raheela Kausar Baloch, widow of director accounts, ministry of petroleum and natural resources when the housing ministry had allotted this house to her on a permanent basis.
The promise for allotment of an alternative home to her has also not been delivered and the hapless widow is forced to making rounds of different offices along with her three children in the quest for justice, which is now turning from a dream to a nightmare for her, when her last ditch effort of diverting the attention of the minister for housing towards the highhandedness of his ministry in depriving her three small children of a roof seems to have drowned into a mixture of hopelessness and apathy.
On the demise of the director accounts, Rajab Ali Baloch, of the ministry of petroleum and natural resources, his widow Raheela Kausar Baloch, was provided a job and was allotted a house No. 21/7 which was located in Gulshan Jinnah and she was living there with her three children.
She was also paying the rent of this house regularly.
The ministry of housing, through a letter No F-S-7/21-FSC-EIV dated February 9, 2015, had assured her that she could live in the house No. 21/7 Gulshan Jinnah as long as a house was not allotted to her according to her pay scale.
This has now been evacuated of the widow forcibly and has been allotted to someone else. On the other hand household goods, furniture, fridge, AC, utensils and clothes of the widow are still lying in this house which are also not being returned to her.
Later the state office issued a letter on July, 8, 2015 for allotment of a D-Type quarter to Raheela Kausar but the house was not allotted to her.
Having been disappointed over the non-allotment of a house, she requested the minister for housing to allot her a house, but her plea received a “no” nod from him and no house has been allotted to her so far despite the lapse of several months.
Rahila Kausar has appealed to the prime minister, the chief justice of Pakistan and the federal minister for housing, to help provide a roof for her and her children to take shelter therein.