ISLAMABAD, Oct 22: The People’s Party Parliamentarians has said that the Supreme Court’s verdict cancelling allotment of residential and industrial plots in Gwadar to members of parliament, ministers and judges and banning land allocation will check rampant misuse of state land.

PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar said in a statement issued here on Sunday that the principles of legislation and transparency laid down by the court went a long way in stemming corruption. He said state land was being apportioned among the rich and powerful without regard to law and transparency.

Apart from allotment to favoured individuals, the misuse of state land had been taking place in different other ways, including changing the use for which the land was initially allotted, he said.

He said that through parliamentary questions it had transpired that during 1999 to 2004, 84 acres of military farmlands in Attock and Sargodah had been converted into golf courses and 222 acres of farmlands in Rawalpindi, Lahore and Sialkot into housing schemes.—PPI