The National Assembly Standing Committee on Communications has asked the government to produce the details of procedure adopted for disposing of the enemy property, left behind after the wars of 1965 and 1971.
The meeting of the committee was held in Parliament House on Tuesday to discuss the custody of enemy property in Pakistan.
Shahid Hussain Bhutto, MNA, a committee member said that the committee asked the government to produce the detailed information about the present status of the enemy property in the next meeting. Bhutto said that the committee also proposed the federal government to hand over the property to the respective provincial governments.
He said that the Communication Ministry was also asked to arrange a more comprehensive briefing and submit its recommendations to the committee before the next meeting.
The enemy property includes lands, cotton industries, hotels, shops, and commercial plots, which were left by people after wars of 1965 and 1971 and it is still in the custody of the government.
The meeting was attended by Brigadier Zulfiqar Ahmed Dhillon, Syed Gulzar Sibtain, Rao Muhammad Ajmal Khan, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Muhammad Akhter Khan Kanjo, Dr Ghulam Haider Samejo, Afsar Begum, Maulana Gohar Shah, Shahid Hussain Bhutto, Nawab Mohammad Yousuf Talpur, Mehmood Khan Achakzai and Muhammad Shamim Siddiqui, Minister for Communication.