Corporate agriculture: LHC suspends same court’s judgement prohibiting land transfer to the army

An ruling by the Lahore High Court (LHC) prohibiting the transfer of land to the Pakistan Army for corporate farming on a 20-year lease was postponed on Monday by the same court.

The Punjab government petitioned the LHC to set aside a decision made by its single-member bench, and the petition was considered by a two-member court presided over by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi.

The Punjab administration insisted that the lawyers who filed the complaints, who are headquartered in Lahore, were not affected parties and that it was not the role of the court to oversee agricultural policies.

The army was given access to about 45,267 acres of Punjabi land in the districts of Bhakkar, Khushab, and Sahiwal for a corporate agriculture farming project.