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Re 1 per acre for Sonmiani port humiliating, says Wasay
LAHORE: The government wants to buy 500,000 acres for only Re 1 per acre to build a port in Sonmiani, Balochistan senior Minister Maulana Abdul Wasay told the provincial assembly on Thursday. Wasay later told BBC Urdu that President Gen Pervez Musharraf had announced setting up a port in Sonmiani in March. “Shipping and Ports Minister Babar Ghauri acted so hastily on this that he suggested that the price of land in Sonmiani should be Re 1 per acre,” he added. “Balochistan has always been victimised but this is humiliating,” said the MMA leader. Balochistan Revenue Minister Asim Kird Geelu told a press conference on Thursday that the house lacked the required quorum to pass a resolution against the establishment of the port. “No approval for land in Sonmiani has been given and no PC 1 of the project has been prepared either,” Geelu said. Advocate Kachkol Ali, opposition leader in the Balochistan Assembly, told the assembly session on Thursday that the MQM wanted to establish Jinnahpur from Bandar to Sonmiani. This, he said, would turn the Baloch into a minority. daily times monitor
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