Story highlights The DHA has also illegally occupied 50 kanals [1 kanal = roughly 506 square metres] of the Lahore high court and I will have an FIR lodged against the DHA, the Chief Justice revealed
A new war seems to be brewing in Pakistan in which on one hand is the Pakistan judiciary and on the other is the country’s army.
The dispute in this war is land grab. From grabbing the land of its neighbours, the mighty Pakistan army is now grabbing land on its own soil.
Earlier this month, three petitions were filed in Pakistan accusing the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) of illegally occupying around 40 to 50 acres of land.
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Zubaida Jalal, Pakistans Minister for Defence Production, recently oversaw the signing of a MoU for construction of a Shipyard at Gwadar. This is a project that has been in the works for many years; at least since 2008.
The latest round of excitement started in 2017, when, in a seminar organised by the Pakistan Navy (PN), its Naval Chief announced the approval of a new shipyard at Gwadar, to be completed within three to five years. 12 years since the idea and three years since the latest round of excitement, Pakistan has only been able to sign a MoU that too between its Federal and Provincial Governments. Even this has been possible only because PN eyes it a form of enriching itself with new sources of income and post retirement jobs.