LAHORE: In respect of a news piece that appeared in daily “The News” regarding retrieval of state owned land from Mrs Aamna Taseer and her sons, the legal heirs of late Salmaan Taseer, it is clarified that the Taseer family was never in possession of any government owned land.
It has been further clarified that an operation was conducted on October 23, 2019, in Mouzas Saraich, Asu of Model Town Tehsil, and certain government open land which is adjacent to the land owned by the Taseer family and has been possessed.
The Taseer family land has a wall built around it and this land falls outside their boundaries, therefore the family never laid a claim or possession of any such government land.
Moreover, the anti-encroachment operation is being conducted in Punjab for more than one year, and at no point has the family been informed about any illegal occupation by them of any state owned land.
