THROUGH these columns we would like to draw the attention of the Sindh government to the pending case of regularisation of Shanti Nagar (also known as Dalmia due to the cement factory established there in the early 1930s), more than a 100-year-old village, where a school, established in 1913, still exists.

In 1996, the then chief minister of Sindh, the late Syed Abdullah Shah, regularised Shanti Nagar and issued ownership certificates to the residents of Sindhi Para, one of the localities of Shanti Nagar. But as soon as the government was dismissed, the then caretaker government stopped the process.

Now again on our request, the present chief minister instructed the Land Utilisation Department on April 17, 2008 to put up summary at the earliest.

The Sindh government also enacted Sindh Goth Abad Amendment Act 2008 for regularisation of old villages and the same was notified through the gazette on October 21, 2008, after which some of the villages of Karachi were regularised, but the residents of Shanti Nagar still await ownership rights.

QAZI IFTIKHAR AHMED QURESHI
Karachi