There is also plans to set up an Islamabad High Court, alongside the four provincial one’s that exist at the moment.
Islamabad’s territorial limits likely to be extended
Muhammad Anis
ISLAMABAD: The federal government is likely to extend the limits of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) with the expansion of Margalla Hills National Park Area. The CDA sources told ‘The News’ that the final decision in this regard would taken by the federal cabinet when the Ministry of Interior takes the case to it. “If the federal cabinet approves, the limits of ICT will be extended towards Haripur district of NWFP from the boundary of Pir Sohawa,” the sources said.
CDA Chairman Kamran Lashari, when contacted by ‘The News,’ said that the CDA would soon recommend the government to expand the limit of Margalla Hills National Park by including a portion of Haripur district. He said that the recommendation was aimed at protecting the national park area to save the environment, beauty and wildlife of Margalla Hills. He said that it is the most appropriate way to stop development of housing schemes in Haripur area, a few kilometres from the boundary of Islamabad and NWFP. The sources said that following hue and cry raised by a number of NGOs, a senior official of the Prime Minister’s Secretariat visited site of the housing scheme. Later, a committee, headed by the federal secretary environment, was constituted to look into the issue of emergence of a housing scheme in the area. The sources said that the committee had recommended appointment of a consultant who would submit a report on threats being posed to Margalla Hills due to development activity. The government is also under pressure from the NGOs working for the protection of environment and wildlife to minimise human activity on Margalla Hills. They fear the human activity would increase with the development of housing schemes and any other construction activity.
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