ISLAMABAD: Land allotment to former army chief retired General Raheel Sharif, currently serving as the commander of the Saudi Arabia-led Islamic military coalition, was questioned in the Senate on Friday, as an outspoken Pakistan Peoples Party senator sought to know under which law the allotment had been made, according to a report by a private media outlet. Raising the issue of allotment of 88 acres of precious land to Sharif as a ‘post-retirement benefit’, Senator Farhatullah Babar asked if all army chiefs had obtained a similar benefit on their retirement. A day earlier NAB reopened a corruption reference against some retired army generals in a land transfer case that had remained dormant for over a decade, he said. Then the senator raised the issue of protest demonstrations in Swat against harassment and humiliation of people at security check-posts. When some people protested they were arrested and terrorism cases registered against them, Senator Babar said.

Source: Pakistan Today February 24, 2018 04:41 UTC