Karachi (HRNW) The Bundal and Buddo islands have been declared property of the Sindh government. On Wednesday, the provincial cabinet decided they will be called protected forests.
Spread over 3,000 and 8,000 acres of lands respectively, the Buddo and Bundal islands are owned by the Sindh Forest Department.
Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has approved a summary which stated that the islands won’t be used by the Ministry of Port and Shipping or the federal government neither do they have no ownership over the land.
The Sindh and federal governments had been at crossroads for more than a year now over the ownership of the land. The argument first started in 2020 when President Arif Alvi signed a Presidential Ordinance creating the Pakistan Island Development Authority.
The body was handed over the responsibility of developing and managing islands in Pakistan’s “internal waters”. Its job was to continuously reclaim and master plan specified areas which would be them promoted as tourist destinations. Alvi promulgated the Pakistan Islands Development Authority Ordinance, 2020 on August 30.
Initially the Sindh government gave a nod to the project but later an opposition was created against the island authority by the PPP. “No talks on the island would be held with the federal government until and unless the controversial ordinance was withdrawn,” it said.
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