Whilst we are on the subject of “Land Grabbing”.
In February, the army requested the Punjab government for 1 million acres of state land in the Cholistan area for corporate agricultural farming, court documents reveal.
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Of the over 45,000 the Punjab government was granted to the Pakistan army for "corporate farming", 23,027 was forest land.
For now, the Lahore High Court has stayed the transfer of the state land on lease to the Pakistan military. But the Punjab government pleaded in court yesterday for the stay to be lifted.
LAHORE: The Pakistan Army requested the Punjab government for one million acres of state land in the Cholistan area for corporate agricultural farming, court documents reveal.In an official letter...
www.thenews.com.pk
A noble cause:
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Note this “pilot project” aims to “develop” over 23,000 acres of Forrest land into pilot agricultural land.
As per a report published on Pakistan Disaster risks:
The most adverse impacts of deforestation in Pakistan are flooding, climatic changes, land sliding, land degradation, soil erosion and desertification.
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