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October 13, 2006 Friday Ramazan 19, 1427

Letters to the Editor

Plea for ownership right

A COMMUNITY of laundrymen and people, we migrated from India to live in Muslim homeland of Pakistan in 1947 and settled in Saray Ratan Chand, Chowk Shah Alam Gate in the Bansanwala Bazaar, Lahore.

The houses that we took up for living here were taken over by the Evacuee Trust Property Board whose office at 9 Court Street, Lahore, received rent from us. These houses were in a dilapidated condition and the Saray Ratan Chand area itself was also unliveable due to lack of drainage facilities.

In the last 59 years, we have repaired these houses with our meagre incomes and also spent money on the improvement of the area itself.

We request the government of Pakistan to grant us the right of ownership of our houses as it has done to several kutchi abadis of Lahore.
S. QALB-I-ABBAS & OTHER RESIDENTS Lahore http://www.dawn.com/2006/10/13/letted.htm
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A community of laundrymen and people, we had migrated from India to live in Muslim homeland of Pakistan in 1947 and had settled in Saraay Ratan Chand, Chowk Shah Alam Gate in the Bansanwala Bazar, Lahore. The houses that we took up for living here were taken over by the Evacuee Trust Property Board whose office at 9-Court Street received rent from us. These houses were in dilapidated condition and the Saraay Rattan Chand area itself was also unlivable due to lack of drainage facilities. In the last 59 years, we have repaired these houses with our meager incomes and also spent money on the improvement of the area itself.
We request the government of Pakistan to grant us the right of ownership of our houses as it has done to several kacchi-abadies of Lahore. -INHABITANTS of Saray Ratan Chand, Dohbi Ahatha, Bansanwala Bazzar, Lahore,

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