Islamabad: Supreme Court Justice Gulzar Ahmad, while expressing dissatisfaction at Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) report on its anti-encroachment operation, remarked that the agency should demolish anything that isn’t the part of the master plan, according to a news report.
The court also summoned chairmen of Capital Development Authority and Parks & Horticulture Authority on Friday.
Justice Gulzar Ahmad also directed CDA to submit the Islamabad Master Plan from 1960 to the Supreme Court.
A bench of the Supreme Court headed Justice Gulzar was hearing a case relating to a private housing society and had expressed its displeasure at the encroachments around the city.
The court remarked that the CDA had destroyed the natural beauty of the federal capital with heaps of garbage everywhere and added that the dusty roads in the city were filled with potholes. The court also reprimanded the agencies due to the lack of trees around the city.
