Pakistan Land Grabbing
Pakistan: Chitral residents claim PTI leader is grabbing govt land
Chitral: The residents of Yurjogh village in Lot Koh valley of Pakistan have alleged that the government is supporting a local leader of ruling PTI in a land grabbing incident.
The local leader was identified as Shahzada Amanur Rahman.
The residents told Dawn News that the government had also approved a huge amount of Rs 40 million for an irrigation project on the said piece of land.
Addressing a press conference, the villagers including Wazir Khan, Mufti Israruddin, Haji Mohammad Nawaz, Sher Wali Khan and others said that the piece of land was a pasture near their village that was a public property as given in the gazette notification of 1975, the newspaper reported.
They even claimed that the irrigation project would render their village Yurjogh vulnerable to landslides.
They regretted that the deputy commissioner did nothing about their complaint except sending it to the executive engineer of irrigation department, which executed the project.
“The complaint portal of the prime minister also did nothing except forward it to the officer of the irrigation department and it produced no effect,” the villagers told Dawn News.
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