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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Daniyal Aziz has announced a legal battle in the criminal jurisdiction against Adviser to Prime Minister on Law and Interior Shahzad Akbar, days after he levelled allegations against him.
“I will drag Shahzad Akbar to a [criminal court] and will fight a legal battle so that you will understand that even innocent people know how to fight back,” he said while addressing a press conference in Islamabad.
Commenting on the press handout given in Akbar’s recent presser, he said the government had retrieved land worth Rs2,500 million from him, adding that the “important” thing here was that he had no link with the land recovered by the authorities.
The PML-N leader said that his father bought the land back in 1960s through a government scheme. “My father fought a legal battle of possession against the Punjab government when he was alive and had won the case,” he claimed.
Daniyal Aziz, citing, which he claimed was a court order against Anti Corruption Punjab, said that the court had stopped the authorities from interfering with the possession of the land.
Last week, Akbar claimed that the government had made recoveries worth Rs210 billion from Punjab. He claimed that of the amount, Rs24 billion worth of recoveries were made from 36 PML-N members, from whom 8,085 acres of land was taken back.
