Punjab’s caretaker administration has agreed to give the Pakistan Army at least 45,267 acres of land in three districts — Bhakkar, Khushab, and Sahiwal — for “Corporate Agricultural Farming.”
The military’s land directorate wrote to the Punjab chief secretary, the Board of Revenue, and secretaries of the agriculture, forest, livestock, and irrigation departments to transfer:
- 42,724 acres in Bhakkar’s Kaloor Kot and Mankera
- 1,818 acres in Khushab’s Quaidabad and Khushab
- 725 acres in Sahiwal’s Chichawatni.
The letter also referenced the Punjab government’s February 20, 2023 notification and March 8 Joint-Venture (JV) agreement.
While signing the JV management agreement on March 8, it was decided that state lands immediately required for the project be handed over to Pakistan Army.
Citing sources, a report from Dawn states that the military, Punjab government, and corporate farming corporations signed the JV.
The report stated that the Punjab government will supply land and the army will use its resources and manage the project. The business sector will invest and provide auxiliary support, including fertilizers.
Military sources clarified that the land will remain the Punjab government’s property. “Army participation will offer a coherent administrative structure,” the report added.
Citing “insiders”, the report stated that the Army viewed the area as barren, uncultivated, and underutilized. It intends to make it a fruitful land that will yield revenue and natural resources.
According to insiders, retired army officers would handle the project, ensuring the interest of the general public, the government, and the investors.
At least 40% of the cultivation money will go to the Punjab government, 20% to modern agricultural research and development, and the rest to future crops and project expansion.
Via: Dawn
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These areas are some of the most fertile land in pakistan. Khushab and chichawatli both have planned forests.
Who said this was barren land?
How can a caretaker government hand over state land to the army?
Why is the army involved in corporate farming?
Punjab has thousands of jobless graduates who are Bachelors, Masters and even Phds in Agriculture. Why land cannot be given to such researchers on a long term conditional lease?. Imagine that you teach thousands of graduates for Agriculture and they are jobless, but Army officers who are never trained into this field will now control such a huge amount of land in Punjab.
So do you think these jobless Agriculture Experts will love Pakistan or our Armee or they will hate this country?
There was this piece of land in a kpk town that the Army assigned to a civilian firm to develop for farming and a recreation spot for civilians. I know this for a fact that that firm put up an estimated bill at over 20 million rupees. The Army called in the it’s own engineers who completed the task in under a million rupees. The place is mostly frequented by the civilians for recreation purpose. The civilian dmgs were ‘ruling’ the location for decades. Not one of them thought about providing recreation to their civilian masses. Infact when they did, people died. That was civilian expertise at play.
We people almost entirely don’t understand the capabilities of military outfit, and yet we keep calling on them for census, election, internal security, electricity management, disaster management, fatf management and so on.
So how exactly wud u rather have jobless people to invest into this enterprise and make money out of it? Do they have the expertise to do farming or initiate other venture without financial and organized administrative assistance?
Modern armies are more trained into this than u might think. Wars these days aren’t just about a sword and a knife. It’s an entire encompassment of things, including farming. They will definitely have some civilian contracted do the job, making sure they don’t fleece the nation like the contractors usually do when they r at civilian jobs.
They will surely hate the Haram Khor army Jo mulk loot kr kha Gae Hain Haram zaaday
Good suggestion for National interest and security pl
Cuz they want to make dha society there…
This is how DHAs are made! Stupid caretaker government!
@Loyaly Your comment is a Saazish against our country. You are Ghadaar e Watan. You seems to be a foreign funded agent. Anyone who questions such decisions are working on a foreign agenda to destabilize our country.Vigo Daala ab tera intezaar kar raha hay.
🤣 hahaha Sahi bola aap NY
Barren, land for farming, are they experts in agriculture?
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Why was this done and at whose backing? This is how things are got done at ‘gun point’ in this country and this is how weak and incompetent governments succumb to pressure. As a common man and a patriotic Pakistani, I protest this one and similar other moves. Such lands, whatever their nature could have been put to a much better use for the welfare of ordinary Pakistanis who stand in long queues all day long just to get 5 kilos of wheat flour and that too in a country that takes pride in being agriculture-based.
Retired army officers, retired army officers, retired army officers……..I am fed up hearing all this all day long.
There are no DHA in these cities future plan…….
Pakistan army leave the border and come to the business in the country because Pakistan ka Allah Hafiz hai
Hadd hi mukk gai a
Q ap sari Zameen in bherion ko day rahayehain
“Army viewed the land as barren, uncultivated” seriously is this your job ???
“Retired army officers will handle the project” lolzz fck off bloody civilian, they are expert of everything.
lanat ho tm pay
Who will guarantee that this land:
1) Will not be converted into DHA and Askari schemes in future?.
2) Who will guarantee that Army officers will not get 50-100 acres out of it during the retirement?.
3) Why this land was not given among the landless Haaris of Punjab or jobless Agriculture (Hons) graduates?.
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Also it is totally unethical that Army has taken such a huge amount of land from the unelected Punjab government. 45,000 is like a small city. This is height of non-Professionalism. Have you ever heard that American or European Soldiers doing Farming on such a huge amount of Land.
Very Very Sad Situation for Pakistan.
The ‘establishment’ needs to stop this. It’s time to return them to the border, and make them stop selling fertilizers, gas, cement, power, stocks, banking, meat, chips, corn flakes, juices, etc. All these businesses should be auctioned to the Pakistani public in form of stocks.
Highly Shameful Act done by Army in a civilian (lol) government term
Ya thoray arsy bad sari land harap kar jaen gay . Ya to gernel aps ma bandar bant kar len gay ya phir housing societiyan bana len gay.
Pakistan as a whole is based on dha land
Its not true . I think fake news
Loot Kay kha Gaey yeh kameenay poorly mulk KO.
Pakistan army should do his job to protect our borders not to cultivate the land
You forgot my brother they’re into business since the beginning 😅
barren who says interesting.
what is the role of army in busniess?
This is how they gradually conquered Pakistan..
If they want to till the land , raise an other army to defend the country.
How low will they fall? Such shameful act
Laanti ghaddar fauj. Please have mercy on this nation.
Matlb yea land be gens or officers k name per jaiyge emargee awam tar gee army sham on u pak army
Pakistan’s Army is not an army actually, It is a Corporate Enterprise which deals in many businesses. Everything in this country is for them and nothing for US, we are bloody civilians who are living in this country only to serve these b*****ds.
انہی کاموں کی وجہ سے آرمی نے عوام میں اپنی قدر کھو دی ہے ۔ان شاءاللہ ایک دن ہم آزادی حاصل کریں گے اور فوج کو واپس بیرکوں میں بھیجیں گے ۔
Two things clear
1. Army people exprrtise is not war but Agriculture as they lost all wars but made numerous housing schemes and now farms
2. Army is a corporate
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An other way to become billionaires by hook or by crook.
If they have the guts, they should capture lands from Pakistan’s enemies and cultivate them or construct DHA there and enroll them selves there for jobs and give some piece of it to the poor pakistanis .