The mayor of Islamabad who is holding additional charge of the chairman CDA says he is to inaugurate new residential sectors in the federal capital soon. Fair enough but the question is from where he would raise revenue for the purpose? The CDA hasn’t enough money in its coffer to go round :will he be selling prime land of CDA for the purpose ? Will he be able to extend all those civic amenities to the residents of these new residential sectors which the CDA has given to old fashionable residential sectors where the elite of the federal capital live? If not, then what is the big deal in it? It would be far better if the CDA ,instead, attend to the issue of scarcity of water in many residential sectors . In summer the residents of many residential sectors had to buy water at exorbitant rate from the unscrupulous drivers of CDA water tankers who overcharge and make hay while the sun shines. Is he aware of it? Why should the mayor plumb for new residential sectors when the CDA is finding it exceedingly difficult to meet the basic civic needs of the residents of its present residential sectors ? The Mayor should also do something to get rid of blackmailing tactics of CDA’s union which has been holding the administration of the CDA as hostage. The CDA chairman often gets milked by the CDA union.
Let us admit that the CDA has overstretched its limits. The fact of the matter is that Islamabad has already become unmanageable for the CDA. It is bursting at the seams.
POSTSCRIPT:Shahid Afridi and Saeed Ajmal should not make themselves a laughing stock of cricket fans by refusing to reconcile to the fact that they are well past their prime and they had better not delay their retirement even for a single day.
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