Over 211 acres of forest land retrieved in Capital: Shehryar Afridi.

I S L A M A B A D -- Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Afridi Monday said that the government had successfully retrieved over 211 acres of encroached land in Tumair area of federal capital in its on-going anti-encroachment drive. While sharing details of anti-encroachment drive at a press conference along with Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Hamza Shafqat here, the minister said that Capital development Authority (CDA) and Punjab forest department has a 5500 acre forest area in the federal capital. Of the total, more than 700 acre had been encroached he said adding that during the drive 211 acre land have been retrieved so far while rest of the land would be recovered soon. He said that it was the joint effort of...