PPP leader Asif Hashmi in Interpol custody

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Pakistan People’s Party senior leader Syed Asif Hashmi was arrested by Dubai police on Tuesday and handed over to Interpol for onward shifting to Pakistan.

Asif Hashmi had been a proclaimed offender by Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in the DHA-ETPB land deal case. Hashmi had fled the country to avoid arrest.

Asif Hashmi allegedly sold the ETPB 1,946 kanals of land to DHA on 25 per cent exemption basis in 2009, whereas same land was recommended by former ETPB chairman Gen Zulfiqar Ali Khan on 33 per cent exemption basis to DHA in 2001. The land was situated in Dera Chahal, Lidher and Mota and difference of 8 per cent caused loss of Rs 2 billion while another 225 kanals was evacuated from DHA which was occupied with the connivance of ETPB officials and Hashmi team.

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