Friday, May 18, 2007

Land grabbers - all! by Ardeshir Cowasjee

The armed forces own Pakistan's largest industrialist empire, and they are also the premier landowners both in the rural and urban areas - defence housing schemes, and generals' housing colonies occupy vast tracts of land in cities and towns from one end of the country to the other. They are surely not in dire need of space in which to expand their various interests. But it does happen sometimes that they do not merely acquire land but that it is thrust on them, as happened in Karachi eleven years ago. Read Complete Article

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