QUETTA, July 3: A blind senior citizen of Quetta, Hafiz Ghulam Mohammad, has appealed to President Gen Musharraf and Premier Shujaat Husain to help him get back his property of which he has been deprived of by some influential people.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, Ghulam Mohammad said he had migrated to Quetta from Delhi as a refugee in 1947, leaving his property there. The Evacuated Property Trust (custodian) allotted him a piece of land in Quetta on his claim.

He built five small shops and a room on top of them in 1954. "I paid all taxes of the property till the place was in my custody," Hafiz Ghulam Mohammad said.

He rented out his property No 2-5/ 15, Hafiz Manzil, to some people who paid rent regularly till 1991, but thereafter they stopped paying rent and occupied his property in connivance with an assistant administrator of the department of evacuation property trust.