The Punjab caretaker administration has agreed to provide the Pakistan Army access to at least 45,267 acres of land in the province’s Bhakkar, Khushab, and Sahiwal districts for “Corporate Agricultural Farming”.
According to a document, the military’s land directorate wrote to the Punjab chief secretary, Board of Revenue and secretaries of the agriculture, forest, livestock and irrigation departments for handing over of 42,724-acre land in tehsils Kaloor Kot and Mankera in Bhakkar, 1,818 acres in tehsils Quaidabad and Khushab in Khushab, and 725 acres in tehsil Chichawatni of Sahiwal.