KANDAHAR: The Kandahar provincial Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Department said on Sunday that 12,000 acres of state land have been reclaimed from usurpers in the past month of the current solar year.
“12,000 jeribs of state land in collaboration with security forces across 19 districts of Kandahar were saved over the past month,” the Information and Culture Directorate quoted the spokesperson of the agriculture directorate, Hanif Haqmal, as saying.
After assessments by the technical teams of the relevant commission, the land has been identified as Emarati in Kandahar city and its 19 districts and handed over to the relevant government institutions, the statement said.
The process of reviewing, approving and returning state land continues in all provinces and cases of thousands of acres of confiscated land are under investigation by the provincial Land Usurpation Prevention technical teams, the statement added.