KARACHI: Merchant’s plea in relics’ transfer case allowed
KARACHI, Dec 9: The Sindh High Court, hearing the petition of former KMC administrator Fahimuz Zaman, allowed the application filed by Liaquat Merchant, administrator of the Estate of the Quaid-i-Azam, and joined him as respondent in the petition which seeks to challenge the removal of some articles of furniture and relics pertaining to Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah from Karachi to Islamabad for display at the National Monument Museum.
The SHC's division bench comprising Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah directed Liaquat Merchant, as administrator of the Estate of the Quaid-i-Azam, to visit the QA House Museum with Director of Archaeology Qasim Ali Qasim and to inspect the items of furniture and other relics. An inventory had been prepared pending further orders of the high court for the transfer of these items to Islamabad.
Liaquat Merchant visited the QA House on December 9 and inspected the premises as well as items of which an inventory had earlier been prepared by the department of archaeology and the SHC Nazir which contained a list of furniture, articles proposed to be transferred to Islamabad on a permanent loan basis for the purpose of restoration and display at the National Monument Museum-Lok Virsa Museum.—PPI
