National
December 24, 2020
LAHORE: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday asked a couple to resolve their property dispute amicably after it was transpired that the husband had forged signatures of his wife to grab 297 Kanal land he had gifted to her earlier.
A three member bench headed by Justice Manzoor Ahmed Malik was hearing the pre-arrest bail petition of Aslam Hayat Qureshi who allegedly forged the signatures of his wife, Lala Rukh Hayat granddaughter of Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, former prime minister of the British Punjab before the partition. Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Aminud Din were other members of the bench.
It was in the Jat Gazette that he wrote: “People describe the farmer as the Lord of Grains (Annadata), but no one sees whether he himself eats or not. It is the biggest wonder of the world that the one who produces remains hungry. I tell the Rajas and Nawabs and all types of governments of Hindustan to not harass the farmer to the extent that he stands up… Other people break the law when they get angry with a government, but when the farmer would get angry, he would not only break the law, he would also break the back of the government.”