Isn’t the federal capital bursting at the seams?

Islamabad is bursting at the seams. Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan who had visualised and planned this new federal capital would not have thought even in their dreams that the city which they were creating for housing only the federal government employees and building their offices only would one day grow to the extent it has grown today.
There is a famous anecdote about the various matters discussed in the meeting of the poet of the east Allama Iqbal with the Italian dictator Mussolini during the course of his visit to Rome. When the Italian dictator invited his comment about the beauty of Rome, Iqbal advised him not to allow expansion of his beautiful capital city beyond a certain limit as when a city becomes congested it loses its inner strength, culture and civilisation. The wisdom behind Iqbal’s advice becomes apparent when one sees the untold civic and law and order problems that are cropping up with no-holds-barred type of residential colonies that are coming up in the federal capital by the day. The CDA can no longer meet the civic requirements of the new residential sectors because of the grown and growing drain on its resources. The quality and quantity of civic amenities that have been extended to the old residential areas are not being given to the new residential areas. Many areas have been developed without proper geological survey about the availability of underground water. Every Tom, Dick and Harry is allowed to instal water boring machine for sucking out the underground water to the extent he desires. In many residential sectors, waste is not being collected daily by the concernced staff of the CDA. The conditions of roads in many residential sector leaves much to be desired. As if all this was not enough, the master plan of Islamabad which was made at the time when its foundations were being laid, has been violated so many times with rare abandon due to political interference under which its green belt was converted into residential and commercial plots. The concept under which some land was earmarked for farm houses was also thrown to winds.