Noose tightened around land grabbers in Laghman

KABUL (Pajhwok): More than 170 people accused of usurping government land have recently been introduced to the attorneys in eastern Laghman province, officials said on Monday.

The crackdown on illegal land grabbers comes amid an ongoing strike by hundreds of teachers in the Qarghai district of Laghman. The teachers claim land allotted to them under a residential scheme has been usurped.

Sarhadi Zwak, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Governor Abdul Jabbar Naeemi yesterday sent a list of 171 individuals through an official letter to the attorney’s office for a judicial investigation.

Zwak said individuals in the list had encroached on land belonging to teacher townships and the Ministry of Education in the provincial capital, Mehtarlam, and Alingar, Alishang and Qarghai districts.

He said relevant documents prepared by the Ministry of Education had been attached with the list sent to the attorney’s office for investigation.

Zwak said the Ministry of Education had long been struggling with the issue of land grabbing and had informed land grabbers through radios and other sources to relinquish properties they had usurped.

The governor in his letter has urged the attorney’s office to keep the governor’s house updated on the investigation.

Zwak said the provincial government had launched a strong campaign against land grabbing. He said a large number of people somehow involved in the matter had been identified and so far more than 2000 acres of land had been recovered from their illegal occupants in Mehtarlam and a number of districts.

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