UP Govt to Auction Land of Kin of Ex-President of Pakistan Gen Pervez Musharraf 

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government is going to auction 66 bighas of land that belonged to a kin of late Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. This patch of land has been declared as enemy property and it will be auctioned online.

A few months back, 13 bighas of land belonging to Mohammad Nuru, a cousin of Musharraf, in village Kotana, Baghpat district, were auctioned off, reported The Telegraph.

The 66 bighas to be auctioned belonged to another cousin of of Musharraf named Abdul Rahman. On Wednesday, the UP government declared Rahman’s land as enemy property.

Nuru had shifted to Pakistan in 1965 followed by Rahman and his son Majid in 1970.

General Musharraf’s family hailed from Baghpat, 580km west of Lucknow. Musharraf, whose parents left for Pakistan with him in 1947 when he was four. He visited the village in 2001 after attending the Agra summit, held by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to discuss Kashmir.

After Rahman and Nuru left the country, some people had grabbed their land. A part of it was sold off illegally.

In 2010, the government notified Rahman’s land as enemy property, but the land-grabbers moved court claiming ownership of the plot. The court recently ruled against them.

Assets owned by people who emigrated to Pakistan after the Partition are designated as enemy property.