As a result of the substantive intervention made by the Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC), Punjab as many as 94 Kanal precious commercial and residential land has been successfully retrieved from the squatters in Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) Housing Scheme Lahore. OPF, after retrieval of its land, has started construction of boundary wall to protect it from any further encroachments.
Vice Chairperson OPC, Shaheen Khalid Butt while giving details in this regard, informed that Regional Office OPF, Lahore filed a complaint with the OPC that some elements have illegally occupied its land in OPF Housing Scheme since long and are reluctant to vacate it despite many efforts. These occupants had also demolished OPF boundary for the last six years and had also been constantly threatening the OPF staff. VC OPC informed that a special team headed by Director (Legal) Raja Muhammad Zubair was constituted to get the OPF property vacated; and with the help of Police authorities, the occupied land was retrieved successfully. Shaheen Khalid Butt further informed that occupants posed severe resistance and also opened fire but they had to vacate the land as OPC was persistently pursuing the case. FIR has been registered against seven unknown culprits found involved in the firing incident. He also told that OPC is vigorously pursuing the issues of Overseas Pakistanis and so far 50% of the received complaints of expats have been settled by OPC.