US embassy expansion challenged in SC

LAHORE—The expansion of US embassy in Islamabad has been challenged in Lahore Registry of the Supreme Court by Barrister Zaffar Ullah.
According to a private TV channel, the petition maintaining that the United States has acquired 18 acre land and total number of acres touched the area of 56 acre land and the United States can convert its embassy in to Army Cantonment which is against the sovereignty of Pakistan.
The petition stated that the expansion of the embassy over 56 acre of land equals to area of airport. It was also maintained that Pakistan’s nuclear assets would also be in danger in the presence of US military base. The petition further stated that some Arab countries were also planning to buy 700,000 agriculture land on lease in different areas of Punjab and Sindh and it would not possible to monitor the movement of staff and employees to come in the country. The petition feared that the United States is using some Arab countries and it might be the conspiracy of US. The interior ministry, foreign ministry and the law ministry have been made respondents.