ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Sindh government to come up with an answer to an allegation levelled against it by the Transparency International Pakistan (TI-Pak) that the provincial government had leased out 5,000 acres of prime land to a citizen of the UAE on a paltry Rs15 million.

The reply has been sought by the Supreme Court on a suo motu notice initiated on the orders of Chief Justice Jawwad S Khawaja on the letter written by the TI-Pak.

The application was submitted by the TI-Pak to Human Rights cell of the Supreme Court regarding the alleged 99-year old lease agreement between the Sindh government and a citizen of the UAE.

The chief justice had ordered the Sindh government to submit a reply over TI’s application and directed its office to fix the matter before a bench of the court during the third week of Sept.

Published in Dawn, August 30th, 2015

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