The land belonging to a temple has illegally been occupied at the behest of a top bureaucrat in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a senior leader of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s party has claimed. The temple — Sanatan Dharam Mandir — is located in Bhalwal, some 250 kilometres from Lahore. Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) senior leader Nadeem Afzal Chan in a video posted on X alleged that the land of the temple in Bhalwal has been illegally occupied at the behest of Punjab Chief Secretary Zahid Akhtar Zaman. Chan, who is a close aide of PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, also alleged that not only this land, but several acres of land of the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) in Bhera and Kot Momin in Sargodha (some 200 km from Lahore) have also been illegally occupied by the nephews of the chief secretary.