MUZAFFARGARH: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) arrested a naib tehsildar in the alleged land fraud case between the members of the Khar family, including former minister Hina Rabbani Khar.

The ACE officials arrested Naib Tehsildar Ata Kanera in a case against former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar and 25 others under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act on the complaint of Malik Abdul Khaliq Khar, a stepbrother of Hina registered in 2018.

According to the first information report (FIR), Hina, her father the late Malik Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar, her brother Malik Raza Rabbani Khar, other family members and the officials, including naib tehsildars, qanoongos and patwaris, were involved in tampering with the record and transferring 1,595 kanal land illegally at different times from 1971 to 1983.

Khaliq alleged that he was a child when the revenue officials and his father had got the land of his mother transferred.

The ACE department called the Khar family members but they did not appear. Noor Rabbani Khar had divorced his wife Zaibun Nisa, the mother of Khaliq. After his divorce, he contracted marriage with Sumaira Khar.

Published in Dawn, February 19th, 2022