The provincial cabinet decided to sell the land to its original owners if they were willing to buy it back.
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to sell land owned by several universities to address the financial shortfall and resolve the long-standing land dispute.
Sources privy to the development said that the land bought for the Bacha Khan Greater Educational Complex in Mardan would be put on sale to resolve the outstanding dues.
They said that 700 kanals of the 4,800 kanals reserved for the educational complex, which was intended to house four separate institutions, will be sold off to generate Rs35 billion.
This land was reserved during the Awami National Party’s (ANP) government for four separate buildings to be built including Bachakhan Medical College, Abdul Wali University, an agricultural university, and an engineering university in Mardan.
KP Education Secretary Kamran Afridi claimed that the decision to sell the land had been made in compliance with the Supreme Court’s orders. The KP government owes around Rs30 billion to the land owners, he added.
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The provincial cabinet decided to sell the land to its original owners if they were willing to buy it back or else the land would be auctioned. A committee, headed by Special Assistant to the Chief Minister retired Brigadier Abbasi, has been formed to determine the price of land.
