ISLAMABAD: Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) Alumni Association through a letter written to the Federal Minister of Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, has apprised about the latest situation over the issue of land grabbing and illegal encroachment of land of Quaid-e-Azam University. The letter says that luckily by the efforts of university administration and the alumni association, in creating awareness in the public and indulgence of the interior minister in the matter directing the local administration to get it vacated, has moved the issue in the right direction. The alumni highly appreciated the personal interest of the interior minister in helping the university to reclaim its very valuable assets rightfully owned by it. The current situation is that the CDA officials have started demarcation of land on the Bara Kahu side. The letter said, “While we are glad that the exercise has started, we are also apprehensive that some elements in the local administration are seemingly siding with powerful encroachers which may not take the exercise to its logical end.” The alumni association requested the interior minister to direct the high ups in the local administration to get the exercise of demarcation concluded at its earliest. As the next step the local administration including the CDA may kindly be directed to get the matter of illegal occupation and encroachment resolved by peaceful possession of the land to the university which is a public institution of national eminence. The letter has been jointly written by the Secretary General QAU Alumni Association, Muhammad Murtaza Noor and Chairman Legal Committee Joint Action Committee, Azizul Haq Nishtar. Earlier, during the meeting of the Legal Committee of the QAU Alumni Association which comprises senior alumni members and elected presidents of QAU Academic Staff and Employees Associations, it was resolved to undertake further immediate steps to get the QAU land issue resolved.