Mushroom growth of the federal capital

Islamabad is bursting at the seams:a city which was originally planned for about 80000 people now houses about 2 million souls. New housing colonies, both in the public and private sectors have developed at a breathtaking pace. When one doesn’t cut coat according to one’s cloth unforeseen problems do occur. The original master plan or blue print of the federal capital was amended from time to time according to the whims and caprices of the elite or those having right connections in the corridors of power. The CDA and the MCI didn’t care two hoots for the building bye laws. The cumulative effect of the too frequent infringements of rules and regulation in order to accommodate the elite has resulted into tremendous loss of the green area of the federal capital and has also caused depletion of underground water. Many residential sectors of Islamabad today are starved of water and one can see water tankers’mafia having a field day during summer every year fleecing the hapless poor residents of the federal capital for the supply of water. Indiscriminate drilling of water bores in almost every third house in the federal capital is the order of the day and nobody in the CDA or the MCI has ever bothered to worry as to where would this free-for-all sucking of underground water lead to?Are we not heading towards a water crisis?When the CDA or the MCI are not in a position to provide the same civic amenities to the residents of the new residential colonies which they have providing to the posh sectors of the capital why the hell are they allowing new constructions?
It goes without saying that the building control officials of the CDA and the MCI are involved in the encroachment on the government land in the federal capital as these encroachments were not made overnight. They have been coming up over a period of time right under their nose. There can only be two explanations for them. They have been looking the other way while they were being raised either because their palms were greased or there was a political pressure on them.
The only way to save the federal capital from further degeneration is to totally stop new constructions in it, particularly the housing sector and a new city be raised somewhere else if there is an urgent need for it.