Former interior minister and Awami Muslim League (AML) Chief Sheikh Rasheed has stated that sealing Lal Haveli is an act of fascism and terrorism. “If it is not our personal property, we would be national criminals,” Rashid said, claiming that the government took this step after it failed to find anything against him.

He claimed that his Lal Haveli residence in Rawalpindi was completely sealed by authorities in the early hours of Monday.“After the Rangers and Frontier Corps refused, they sealed the Lal Haveli with the help of the Federal Investigation Agency and the police,” he tweeted. The ex-minister said that he did not receive a notice prior to the action, adding that Lal Haveli was his personal property and a central secretariat for public service.

He stated that a case pertaining to the ownership of the Lal Haveli was already fixed for hearing on February 15. ETPB disputes Sheikh Rashid’s ownership claims of Lal Haveli
Meanwhile, on Sunday, the Evacuee Trust Property Board headquarters found out that the ownership documents of one of Lal Haveli’s eight units were fake.

In the record books, the property was owned by the trust. “Previously, we were of the view that the registry of a 3.5-marla unit (out of the eight) as claimed by Rashid may be genuine. But when we probed into it, it was revealed that the legal owner of unit No D-158 is the ETPB. This is the same property against which Sheikh Rashid’s brother moved an application in 1995 with the ETPB for renting it out to him under the law,” a senior official explained.

Credit : Independent News Pakistan-INP