Call to retrieve state land in Chitral

Chitral Today Report

CHITRAL, April 19, 2011: Mr. Shahzada Ibarhim Pirzada, the chairperson of NCCB monitoring cell for Chitral/Gilgit-Baltistan and member of Transparency International, has said some of the local politicians in the past had handed over state land in the valley to their relatives and cronies and created problems for the government as well as the communities.

In a statement, he said these people had been charged a reason amount against the land and also made a good voter for the time being.

He said the local communities had been using these lands for grazing animals and collecting firewood for their livelihood. Now a great vacuum has been created between the government department concerned and the local communities. He said the government in Chitral already lacked state property.

Mr. Shahzada said the district government’s department concerned should take stern action against such politicians who used the government property for their own benefit otherwise the NCCB would file a case against them with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Islamabad.