Islamabad: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration has announced its decision to extend the ban imposed on the launch of new housing societies, according to news sources. To this effect, the authority has stretched the prohibition by two months in a bid to curb land grabbing practices in the capital city.
The district magistrate recently identified several housing societies, trusts, limited companies and groups operating illegally in the capital. Previously, ICT had imposed a two-month ban on advertisements that were seen to promote housing schemes and plots sales, as well as invitations to deposit membership fee, without meeting all legal formalities.
The
official notification in this regard stated that developers of these housing
project lured people and invited membership in excess of the land available or
without having any land at all. The city administration maintained that these
practices resulted in the exposition, fraud, forgery, and other law and order
issues.
Moreover, the ICT administration also extended the ban on the exhibit of firearms, sale/ purchase/use of fireworks, all kinds of gatherings/processions/rallies and public demonstrations, use of loudspeakers (except for Azan and Friday’s Khutba) and other sound amplifying gadgets.
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