KARACHI, May 20: A spokesman for the Governor’s House has said that neither antiquities and artifacts of Sindh are being relocated from Karachi to Lahore nor to the federal capital nor the office of the director-general archives and the national museum was being shifted to the federal capital.

In a statement, the spokesman said that the Sindh governor, Mohammadmian Soomro, had taken up the issue with the federal government as soon as it surfaced in newspapers.

The governor informed the federal authorities about the concern being expressed by research scholars, intelligentsia, students and public at large against news reports suggesting relocation of antiquities and artifacts from Karachi to Lahore.

The federal government held out an unequivocal assurance to the provincial government that no antiquities and artifact of Sindh were being relocated, adding the shifting of the office of the DG archives had also been put off keeping in view the protest.—PPI