ABBOTTABAD: The district administration continued its anti-encroachment operation along the Mansehra Road in Muslimabad neighbourhood of the city for the second day on Sunday, demolishing a newly-constructed market and a plaza and retrieving one kanal of commercial land worth over Rs30 million.

The operation is part of the administration’s drive against land grabbers in the city, who have occupied state land with the connivance of the black sheep in government departments.

Assistant commissioner, Abbottabad, Ehsan Ahsan supervised the anti-encroachment operation, in which heavy machinery was used to raze the structures. The retrieved land belonged to National Highway Authority.

It has been learnt that land grabbers occupy the open spaces in the city with the connivance of officials and then start constructions on them.

Published in Dawn, November 22nd, 2021