KARACHI, Feb 15: A high-level meeting held on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Senior Minister for Finance and Cooperation Syed Sardar Ahmad discussed the chief executive's directive that no land development be undertaken in the vicinity of Mai Kolachi Bypass.

This directive was issued by the chief executive, Gen Pervez Musharraf, in April 2001, in the back drop of information that KPT was undertaking land development work in the vicinity of the said bypass.

The meeting decided that implementation of the directive would be strictly ensured and no transaction of land would be ignored or allowed. It was decided that senior member/member (LU), Board of Revenue will get the previous instruction re-enforced for stopping registration of mutation etc, forthwith.

Necessary instructions will be issued to the district/sub-registrar concerned by the Board of Revenue in this regard. The meeting was attended, among others, by Chief Secretary Mohammad Aslam Sanjrani, Secretary General Administration and Coordination Aijaz Hussain Kazi, provincial secretaries Ghulam Nabi Shah (Law) and Mumtaz-ur-Rehman Khan (Cooperation), Additional Advocate General Abbasi, Member (LU) M. Riaz Khan, M.Q. Memon, additional home secretary and other senior officer. - APP/PPI

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