{"id":93057,"date":"2025-04-18T20:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/deadline-on-margalla-encroachment-sought-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T20:49:09","slug":"deadline-on-margalla-encroachment-sought-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/deadline-on-margalla-encroachment-sought-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline on Margalla encroachment sought | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n                                                                                                                                                                                                         <strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\n                                        ISLAMABAD:<\/p>\n<p>        <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"color:black\">The federal cabinet sought a timeline from the defence ministry on clearing encroachment erected by the military on Margalla Road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"color:black\">As per the documents available with The Express Tribune, the cabinet had directed to remove the encroachment during its meeting on August 11. While reviewing the matter on Tuesday, the cabinet expressed its displeasure over the non-implementation of its directions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"color:black\">During the meeting, Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Chief Commissioner Amir Ali Ahmed said that the matter related to the removal of encroachment in Sectors E-8 and E-9 on the Margalla Road. He added that the matter was raised before the relevant arms of the military, including the air force and the navy. He added that the federal defence ministry has sought time to implement the cabinet\u2019s orders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"color:black\">At this, the cabinet directed the defence minister to define a timeline and ensure the removal of encroachment by that time. The CDA chief was told to submit a report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"color:black\">Prime Minister Imran Khan said that no one will be allowed to infringe upon greenbelts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"color:black\">Further, the CDA chairman said that the authority had recently recovered a forest area which belongs to the Punjab government but is located in the jurisdiction of the ICT administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"color:black\">With the environment department expected to be repatriated to the CDA from the Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) soon, Ahmed assured the cabinet that the Margalla Hills will soon be cleared of all kinds of encroachment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite repeated attempts, the information ministry did not answer the queries of The Express Tribune.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"background-color:white\">Published in The Express Tribune, October 21<sup>st<\/sup>, 2020.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet sought a timeline from the defence ministry on clearing encroachment erected by the military on Margalla Road. As per the documents available with The Express Tribune, the cabinet had directed to remove the encroachment during its meeting on August 11. While reviewing the matter on Tuesday, the cabinet expressed its displeasure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/1103951-MargallahillsFaranMahmoodarticlecopy-1463373060\/1103951-MargallahillsFaranMahmoodarticlecopy-1463373060.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-margalla-hills-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}