Bacha Khan Markaz ownership case

PESHAWAR: A local court on Monday issued notices to Awami National Party President Asfandyar Wali Khan and its provincial head Ameer Haider Hoti in a case filed by Begum Nasim Wali Khan of the ANP-Wali seeking possession of the property of Bacha Khan Markaz.
The court of additional sessions judge Tufail Ahmad issued the notice to the ANP leaders. They were asked to submit replies before February 23, which has been fixed for the next hearing. Nasim Wali Khan had withdrawn her earlier civil suit in which she had sought possession of the Bacha Khan Markaz as its rightful owner. In the fresh suit she again claimed ownership of the Bacha Khan Markaz located on the Pajjagi Road in Peshawar.
She filed the suit through senior advocate Qazi Mohammad Anwar and Hamid Toofan. Nasim Wali insisted she had built the Bacha Khan Markaz after purchasing the land and was, therefore, the rightful owner of the property.
After preliminary hearing, the civil judge issued notices to Asfandyar Wali and Haider Hoti, who is also the nephew of Nasim Wali. Nasim Wali had launched ANP-Wali in February 2014 and asked the ANP President Asfandyar Wali to vacate the Bacha Khan Markaz and immediately hand it over to her.
In the suit, Nasim Wali requested the court to declare that she is the absolute owner of the Bacha Khan Markaz building spread over four kanal of land. She also requested the court to declare that Asfandyar Wali and Haider Hoti had no right to the property and this principle also applied to the defendants, their successors or associates.
Nasim Wali said her father-in-law, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Bacha Khan) had launched the Khudai Khidmatgar Movement in the erstwhile NWFP. She added that the movement was later extended to Balochistan and Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
She said Bacha Khan had constructed a building in Sardaryab area before the creation of Pakistan. It was known as Bacha Khan Markaz and was the headquarters of Khudai Khidmatgar Movement.
She said after the creation of Pakistan the movement of Bacha Khan was banned and Bacha Khan Markaz was demolished by the authorities. She claimed in 1993 she negotiated the purchase of four kanal of land on the Pajjagi Road, which was owned by Mohammad Sharif and his brothers. “The sale price of the land was settled at Rs1.2 million, which was paid by me at the time of attestation of mutation on Feb 11, 1993. I had appointed late Syed Bilal Shah my representative at the time of attestation of mutation to the vendor. After taking possession of the property, I got the site plan of the building to be put up on the purchased land approved from the competent authority,” she said.