THATTA, Dec 5: The District Nazim of Thatta, Syed Shafqat Hussain Shah Shirazi, and PML MNA, Syed Ayaz Ali Shah Shirazi, have urged the Chief Minister of Sindh, Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, to regularise 27 villages located at Makli.

The appeal was made after a delegation belonging to these villages, including Dost Mohammad Hamati, Shah Latif, Hanif Khushik, Pir Hanif Shah, Ghulam Hussain Kumbhar, Ali Murad Dars and others , met the PML leaders and briefed them about their problems.

They said they had been residing in these villages and having all civic facilities like electricity, water supply, gas, metallic roads etc.

Apprising the district nazim, Syed Shafqat Hussain Shah Shirazi, and MNA Ayaz Ali Shah Shirazi, the villagers said that on June 30, 1997, Dr Nasir Javed, the then deputy commissioner of Thatta, on pretext of some irregularities in issuance of sanads, recommended to senior member, Board of Revenue for cancellation of allotments, which were subsequently cancelled and the entire Deh Makli, within which these 27 villages existed, was excluded from Gothabad scheme.

On July 29, 1998, the then Chief Minister of Sindh, Liaquat Ali Jatoi at an open kuchehry at Makli, ordered restoration of sanads and regularization of these villages.

The then deputy commissioner of Thatta, Rashid Basheer Mazari, communicated the orders of chief minister to Director Gothabad Scheme and in spite of constant pursuance by the villagers, could not be implemented.