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State land scam: Ex-brigadier, revenue man among six arrested
[DAWN] LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on Thursday placed in durance vilePlease don't kill me! an additional deputy commissioner, a former brigadier and six other people who are alleged to have fraudulently transferred 1,250-kanal state land in Kasur. "ADC Aamir Aqiq, who also remained personal staff officer to the chief minister, transferred 1,250-kanal state land to his relatives in connivance with a former brigadier (Ibrahim Khalid), a tehsildar and patwaris on low rates," Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told a news conference here. Flanked by the ACE chief, retired Brig Muzaffar Ali Ranjha, Sanaullah said another suspect Salman Munawar was a relative of politician Munawar Manj. "Laying hand on a bureaucrat shows Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... ’s zero-tolerance policy on corruption. Currently, many projects worth Rs1,000 billion are under way in the province and there is no corruption at the government level," he said. The ADC committed the fraud during his tenure (2012-13) in Kasur. Mr Ranjha said the government had retrieved the land and would submit the challan ... list of charges ... of the case in court in a couple of weeks. Initially, the accused had got bail but it was cancelled after which they were arrested. Posted by: Fred 2017-01-28 |
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