This huge funding is almost one third of the total "Mid Term Plan" for the welfare of Overseas Pakistani families which the Minister is attempting to divert through an illegal process, exclusively for his home district including the native-town of his son-in-law, according to documents available with the South Asia Tribune.

Comparative statistics and documentary evidence proves that figures of total number of Pakistanis who left for abroad from Bhawalnagar were faked to 70,000 from original 13,638 to build up the potential case that the Minister's district was overwhelmingly populated with overseas families, a fundamental criterion for OPF (Overseas Pakistan Foundation) development funding.

Earlier this year OPF, on the specific instructions of the Minister carried out a survey to build eight educational and vocational training institutes in his home district, including one school in the home-town of Minister's son-in-law at Arifwala, Pakpattan. An OPF team after conducting a survey declared these projects unfeasible on a variety of grounds.

This irked Lalika who got the surveying official and OPF Acting General Manager, Punjab, Qaisar Nazir, transferred to Islamabad. The Minister brought Ch Muhammad Yasin in replace of Qaisar who had defied Minister's instructions on the subject. After deputation Yasin, originally an employee of Revenue Department in officiating Grade-18 in Punjab government, was appointed two steps higher as a General Manager Punjab within days on the special directives of Minister, which official sources pointed out, were in violation of OPF 1993's Service Rules and Regulations.

Ch Yasin after assuming the office of General Manager, conducted a fresh survey for setting up vocational schools. With few cosmetic alternations he concluded in his recommendations that all previously declared unfeasible projects as "feasible" for reasons that documentary evidence links to Minister's extra-ordinary interest in attempting to divert huge funding to his own district.

In an attempt to make the feasibility of these projects look credible and a most deserving case, Yasin, Minister's new choice quoted the concocted figure of 70,000 overseas Pakistanis from Bhawalnagar. However, the figure cited by New General Manager was fake as a statement by the Bureau of Immigration shows the number of Pakistanis who proceeded abroad from the Minister's district was just 13,638.

Lalika's district falls at number 22 in the priority list of overseas funding criteria in the Punjab. The priority number of Bhawalnagar further goes down if compared with the whole of Pakistan in terms of overseas family concentration of population.

Following are specific projects for which Minister has successfully influenced to fire and hire officials to prepare a desired feasibility report: "OPF Public School at Ghulab Ali Road Dunga Bunga on Haroonabad road, Bhawalnagar, OPF School at Mandi Madrassa, Bhawalnagar, OPF School at Haroonabad city (Lalika's hometown), Public School at Chistian, Bhawalnagar, OPF School in Bhawalnagar city, OPF School at Dahranwala, Bhawalnagar, Poly Trade School at Faqirwala, Bhawalnagar and OPF School at Arifwala, district Pakpattan (Lalika's son in law's native town).

Move by the Minister to have eight major developmental projects in his home district, defies an already approved plan by OPF Board of Governors in this regard. The Board had divided funding in mid term plan for 2002-07 for developmental schemes as per criteria of overseas population concentration in different cities. However, the move by the Minister has yet to seek the approval of the Board that is must to fulfill procedural and legal requirements under the rules of business, pointed out officials in the OPF.

Sources in OPF told the South Asia Tribune that Minister by now has successfully frustrated kicking off earlier developmental projects approved by Board of Governor given Lalika's special interest in diverting the same funding to his own area. In this connections already approved projects like OPF Housing Scheme Zone-V Islamabad and construction of building of OPF Public School Sheikhupura may not see the light of day if the funding is diverted to Minister's district.