----Ss. 6 & 7--- Lease agreement---Validity---Provis9ions of Sindh Rented Premises Ordinance, 1979 permit freedom of contract based on equality of bargaining power in both parties to formalize the contract---Provisions of the Ordinance do not protect any one class against the other---Where at the time of entering into lease agreement in 1965, Landlady knew that she was bartering away her personal need under the law then in force for a period of thirty years, she could not under the statutory provisions made in the Ordinance XVII of 1979 had kept alive the contract, lending the same continued validity and force, professing to protect as much the rights of tenant as that of the landlord; and secondly even if there was such a right available under the law, same stood waived because such right was not a part of public policy, but of a personal privilege which the landlord could forego for a valuable consideration.

Ref. 1992 S C M 943 (b).