Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior and Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar addresses a press conference on details of state land recovered from alleged land grabbers in Punjab. DawnNewsTV
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior and Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar said on Sunday that the government had retrieved 8,085 acres of illegally occupied state land worth Rs210 billion through reclamation operations against the
qabza mafia in Punjab.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Akbar also revealed the names of 36 politicians affiliated with the PML-N, who he alleged were either complicit with the land grabbers or directly part of the mafia.
In this file photo, Adviser to Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Shahzad Akbar speaks at a press conference. DawnNewsTV/File
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar on Thursday announced that the government had retrieved 22 “illegal” properties wroth over Rs200 billion owned by opposition leaders, mostly belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
“The Qabza mafia (land grabbers) benefiting former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members have also been arrested,” Mr Akbar said while speaking at a press conference here.
“The Sharifs have been deprived of monetary benefits they were taking from the Qabza mafia,” the adviser said.
LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has registered FIRs against 50 politicians, mostly from the opposition, on land grabbing and other charges during the last one month or so in the province.
According to the ACE, among the suspects were those who had constructed eight illegal housing societies, five filling stations, five illegal protein farms, one illegal wagon stand, one illegal commercial market and one illegal marriage hall, thus causing a loss of Rs3,424 million to the national exchequer.
Prominent among those booked by the ACE are PML-N’s Ghulam Dastagir, Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjah, Saiful Malook Khokhar, Javed Latif and Ashraf Butt, former federal ministers Khwaja Asif and Danial Aziz, former MNAs Javed Hashmi and Waseem Akhtar and former MPAs Muhammad Ikram, Rizwan Gill, Amjad Ali Javed, Ehsanul Haq Bajwa, Chaudhry Sarfraz Afzal and Meer Badshah Qaiserani. Almost all of them are on pre-arrest bail.