Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on Sunday registered a case against former Punjab chief minister Usman Buzdar over the illegal transfer of 900 kanals land in Dera Ghazi Khan, Geo News reported.
According to the AEC officials, the case has been registered on a report submitted by the deputy commissioner of Dera Ghazi Khan, adding that Buzdar’s brothers have also been included in the case.
The allegations include forging a fake letter for transferring 900 kanals of government land in Tonsa.
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AEC officials said the case had been registered in ACE’s Dera Ghazi Khan police station, and investigations regarding the matter have been commenced.
Last month, PML-N leader Attaullah Tarar said that the government had decided to move the Anti-Corruption Establishment against PTI leader Usman Buzdar.
In a press conference, the PML-N leader said that the ex-chief minister deprived the poor masses of their rights and “ruthlessly plundered the resources of the country.”
The deputy secretary-general of the PML-N claimed former prime minister Imran Khan played the role of a facilitator in Buzdar’s “corruption,” while the ex-chief minister’s front men also remained involved in “plundering the country’s resources.”
“Usman Buzdar will have to answer for his corruption,” Tarrar had said.
After the PTI won the elections in Punjab, the biggest question, post the July 2018 ballot was: who would be the next chief minister of Punjab? As the days went by, old and new names were thrown into the cocktail shaker. There were high-profile contenders, such as former provincial minister Abdul Aleem Khan and TV host-turned-politician Fawad Ahmad Chaudhry. And then there were ones that required a little bit more digging for a profile.
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But none were as unremarkable as Sardar Usman Ahmad Khan Buzdar, which is why his nomination by Imran Khan, chairman of PTI, shocked political wonks and Buzdar himself.
The former chief minister nominee is an advocate and a landlord by profession.
Born in May 1969, in the tribal stretch of Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab, Buzdar is the eldest of five brothers and sisters. While he received his early education from his family village, Barthi, he later enrolled at Multan’s Bahauddin Zakariya University for a masters in political science and then completed an LLB.
With input from Geo News