KARACHI: Artists, art critics, curators and allergists have demanded govt to protect Shahid Sajjad workshop, a place where Pakistan's cultural history was made for fifty years will be destroyed.

Soon bulldozers will level the property to build a commercial project.

The workshop is a legacy of the Pakistani nation and it is the right of people to protect their cultural sites.

A cultural site is a place where important cultural activity relevant to a people has taken place. It's a monument to memory, it holds valuable memory and objects that make it as important as a museum.

Shahid's workshop is a museum of his life and his work, and houses the country's only Bronze Casting furnace where he perfected his loss wax method of bronze casting.

We demand that Pakistani Government protect it so it can be restored and made available to the coming generations of Pakistanis.

The workshop is a site of courage and hope where Shahid Sajjad single handed carved out a space for sculpture in Pakistan for fifty years.

Shahid's workshop is where a visionary and highly skilled artist with great imagination and innovated techniques to create extraordinary art that every Pakistani is proud of.

Shahid Sajjad's workshop is where his spirit and mission live among his carving tools, his smelting furnace and incomplete work. This is the legacy of Pakistan.

If we loose it we will loose a part of our soul. It was demanded by Salmana Shahid Sajjad, Sibte Shahid Sajjad, Noni Shahid Sajjad, Ghazi Salahuddin, Niilofur Farrukh, Rasha Tarek, Salima Hashmi, Nazish Attaullah, Afia Salam, Rumana Husain, Jabbar Gull, Jamal Shah, Shakira Masud, Sadiqa Salahuddin, and Saquib Hanif, artists, art critics, curators and allergists.—PR