News India Former actiing Pak president Wasim Sajjad to visit Jalandhar in search of ancestral house

Former actiing Pak president Wasim Sajjad to visit Jalandhar in search of ancestral house

Jalandhar: A prominent lawyer and politician of Pakistan Wasim Sajjad will visit Jalandhar on Monday in search of his ancestral house.Sajjad was  acting President of Pakistan from July to November 1993 and from 1996 to


Sajjad says he does not remember the exact location of his ancestral home. He asked Jalandhar advocate Navtej Singh Toor to help locate his house.  Toor went around the locality and found three locations, one of which will be identified by Sajjad on Monday, before leaving home in the noon via Wagah border.


Sajjad's grandfather Sheikh Mohammad Sharif was a lawyer in Jalandhar during British rule. He later become a Judge in the Lahore High Court in 1943.

Toor, a former chairman of the Punjab and Haryana Bar Council, visited Suraj Ganj  on Saturday.

Jalandhar Sub-Divisional Magistrate  Paramjit Singh will receive Sajjad in Jalandhar on Monday morning.

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