49,000 kanals of land of KP Auqaf Department illegally occupied
49,000 kanals of land of KP Auqaf Department illegally occupied.
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Auqaf Department’s 49,161-kanal land – out of 64,817 kanals – has illegally been occupied, Dunya News reported on Thursday.
It has been revealed that a federal minister from the province got 365-kanal land allocated to a graveyard in Dera Ismail Khan but paid amount of only191 kanals while Rs23 crore are still outstanding.
As per details, only 1450 kanals in the province are in possession of the Auqaf Department while 13,756 kanals have been lost in cases.
KP Information Minister maintained that the department is poor and criminal silence of government institutions is further destroying it. Strategy is being devised to retrieve property including religious shrines from the land mafia, he said.
