New board will look after Pataudi’s royal properties

Late Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi’s daughter Saba Sultan, who is the Mutawalli (custodian) of Auqaf-e-Shahi (royal properties), has de-centralised its work and formed a five-member executive board to resolve all its issues.

Saba told reporters here on Sunday that she was determined to solve all the problems related to the Auqaf-e-Shahi and will now discharge her duties to fulfil objectives for which the ‘Auqaf’ was meant. The move to form a new executive body and to decentralise work will bring more transparency in the board for the Auqaf-e-Shahi properties, she said.

Saba said the previous board of directors will automatically be diluted. The new five-member executive board for Auqaf-e-Shahi will have chairman of Reliable Group of Industries Sikander Hafeez Khan. Former chairman of Madhya Pradesh Waqf Board Ghufran-e-Azam, former secretary and retired deputy collector Omar Farooque Khatani, retired IFS  Mohammad Hashim, and former general manager of BHEL Z U Alvi will be its members.