Pakistan

Zardari demands crackdown on land grabbers

Express June 22, 2010

NAUDERO: President Asif Ali Zardari has demanded a report on state land grabbed by feudal lords and influential people in Sindh.

Chairing a meeting of Sindh Cabinet in Naudero House, the president directed an operation against all land grabbers in interior Sindh.

He directed that the land be freed from illegal occupants and be distributed among poor women farmers. The president also took note of the halt of development projects in Sindh and directed that they be completed immediately.

The meeting was attended by provincial ministers and officials from the Revenue Department and the National Highway Authority.

COMMENTS (4)

Dr. Adnan | 14 years ago | Reply Yeah what about well-connected illegal occupiers (Bahria Town) who have been occupying land illegally and threatening people because guess what I am also one of those who have been threatened by him and his league of people ... and my case is still running in LHC ... any crack down on him ?

Ali Zaidi | 14 years ago | Reply The irony in the headline is killing me.

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Syed Nadir El-Edroos | 14 years ago | Reply Will this include a crackdown on DHA and the cantonment boards which are grabbing both private and public land?

Syed A. Mateen | 14 years ago | Reply The government should start computersing the ownership of land not only in Sindh but in the entire country. People of Pakistan should know who owns the land and what is the status of the leased land. All the feudal lords and influential people are members of land mafia. They should be taken to the task first. The government should recover the land grabbed by the fuedal lords and influential people and the same should be distributed among the poor farmers who have been working for the land owners as farmers for decades.

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