TAXILA: A team of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) retrieved property worth millions of rupees of Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) in Hazro, sources told Dawn on Tuesday.

According to sources, a team of FIA had launched a campaign to retrieve ETPB’s agriculture land comprising 64 acres worth Rs 200 million in revenue circle Painanda in tehsil Hazro of district Attock.

During the operation, assistant commissioner Hazro Zohaib Ahmed Anjum assisted the FIA team along with local police to help out the FIA officials.

The land was handed over to ETPB deputy administrator. Officials of the FIA said agency had launched a campaign to retrieve ETPB’s land from land grabbers and encroachers under the directives of its Director General Dr Sanaullah Abbasi.

Assistant commissioner Hazro Zohaib Ahmed Anjum, when contacted, confirmed that FIA freed the encroached land from land grabbers and later handed over to deputy administrator of ETPB.

Published in Dawn, December 8th, 2021

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