Those town planners who had planned Islamabad in late 1950s must be turning in their graves as to what the rulers of this country have done with the original blue print of this new capital of Pakistan. Over the years it was blown to smithereens by raising a jungle of concrete on the patches reserved for greenery popularly billed as the green belt in order to accommodate members of strong mafias belonging to different walks of life. To make confusion worse confounded, the laws and the bye-laws of the CDA were honoured more in the breach than in the observance.
Had the CDA right from day one planned an underground railway system connecting all the residential sectors with the local secretariat and different picnic spots the residents would not have faced transport problem now. Likewise, every Tom, Dick and Harry was given NOC to raise a housing colony without thinking where from water needs of the population be met if mushroom growth of houses went on unabated?Nobody took the pain of knowing through research the extent of availability of underground water and the total pollution it could take care of with the result that water scarcity has been hitting the federal capital now and its intensity is increasing by the day.
The situation can be improved even now if a complete ban was imposed on further sprawling of the federal capital. A new city with all the amenities available in Islamabad can be raised nearby lest the federal capital should become yet another city like Karachi, Lahore or Multan, bursting at the seams and crying for basic civic amenities. One should always cut one’s cloth according to the cloth.
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