Abstract
Acclaimed in the national and international laws, residential rights in Pakistan have got less space in academic research, intellectual discourse and media debate. In recent past, this issue of residential rights in rural areas is being linked with rights of those who have not their homes without legal documents. In Sindh province majority of the population lives in not-well-settled villages scattered over lands of government or landlords. Though living in these villages for decades, in some cases centuries, majority of these people do not have mutation documents or legal entitlements of homes they live in. Absence of legal documents is one of the hindrances to avail many public facilities like government loans, etc. Besides, the landlords in the area also exploit the vulnerability of the villagers living in villages without legal documents, especially during national elections they are compelled to vote against their will. In this piece of research we see that villages, which were registered with government, are more developed than those which are not. In this article one sub-district of district Tando Allahyar is surveyed as a case study.
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