With digital record, Imran Khan says govt will take action against \u2018land mafias and facilitators\u2019
\n ISLAMABAD
\nPrime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said the government will take action against land mafias and their facilitators with the help of digital record maintained by cadastral mapping.
\nIn a series of tweets, the premier said when the government began cadastral mapping of Pakistan to digitalise land records there was a massive resistance just like protests over Electronic Voting Machines.
\nHe said results of phase-1 survey of state lands show phenomenal state land encroachment including of forest land through land mafia-political elite connivance.
\n\u201cLike protests over EVMs, when we began cadastral mapping of Pak to digitalise land records there was massive resistance. Results of Phase 1 survey of state lands shows why the resistance: phenomenal state land encroachment incl of forest land thru land mafia-pol elite connivance.\u201d The premier tweeted.
\nIn a subsequent tweet, the Prime Minister said the most shocking facts to come out are huge total value of all encroached state land in three major cities which is approximately worth of 5595 billion rupees. Approximately value of encroached forest land is 1869 billion rupees.
\n\u201cThe most shocking facts to come out are: 1. The huge total value of all encroached state & 3 major cities land – approx Rs 5595 bn; 2. The approx value of encroached forest land – Rs 1869 bn. This has aggravated Pak\u2019s existing lack of sufficient forest cover.\u201d Imran Khan added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With digital record, Imran Khan says govt will take action against \u2018land mafias and facilitators\u2019 ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said the government will take action against land mafias and their facilitators with the help of digital record maintained by cadastral mapping. In a series of tweets, the premier said when the government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[561,560,222,559,214],"class_list":{"0":"post-228671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-action","9":"tag-facilitators","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-mafias","12":"tag-pm"},"yoast_head":"\n