JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Nineteen persons accused of illegally occupying government land have been arrested by police over the past few days in the eastern province of Nangarhar and their cases referred to the attorney’s office, an official said on Monday.
Police have started arresting individuals who seized swaths of land belonging to the Nangarhar Valley Development Authority (NVDA) in compliance with a presidential order, Nangarhar police chief Maj. Gen. Fazal Ahmad Sherzad told Pajhwok Afghan News.
“We have so far arrested 19 small and large scale land grabbers including Haji Farooq who has changed the . . .
