Sindh govt sells 75 acre land under sea

ISLAMABAD: An interesting situation emerged in the Public Accounts Committee on Tuesday when it was informed that the Sindh government in 2006 sold a 200 acre land worth of Rs43.5 million to Export Processing Zone Authority in Karachi and out of it 75 acres of land was under sea.
The Sindh government handed over 120 acres of land to Export Processing Zone Authority but the remaining 75 acres of land did not hand over, saying that when it was reclaimed from the sea then it would be handed over to the authority.
The Public Accounts Committee held it’s meeting on Tuesday with its Chairman Syed Khursheed Shah in the chair in which the Audit paras relating to the Ministry of Industries and Production for the financial year 2010-11 were examined.