Security concerns have compelled the high ups of the all powerful ISI high ups to abandon their much talked about plans of constructing its new headquarter.
Plan falls through as ISI top brass was not allowed enough land for private housing
ISLAMABAD: Security concerns have compelled the high ups of the all powerful Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) high ups to abandon their much talked about plans of constructing its new headquarter on the picturesque hilly valley of Margalla overlooking Islamabad.
According to well placed sources in the Capital Development Authority (CDA), the ISI has vacated a secluded valley in the Margalla Hills, which had already been allotted to it to build its headquarters, though in deference to law.
The sources said the ISI had almost forced the CDA a few years ago to allot 100 acres of land in the Margalla Hills National Park, one of the big attractions of the capital city, to construct a new and safe headquarter as well as a housing colony for its officers.
Seeking permission to acquire the said land, the ISI high ups had argued at that time that they all were feeling insecure in the existing building of ISI, located at Zero Point, on Aabpara Road in Islamabad as the building could easily be targeted by the al-Qaeda activists as it is located on one of the busiest road of Islamabad. The permission was instantly granted and the land acquired by the ISI.
However, as the ISI high ups were only allowed to construct their headquarters and not a residential colony on the acquired land, they decided to abandon the entire plan, saying the hilly area was not safe to build headquarters.
“Yes they have vacated the valley,” a senior official of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) confirmed. Former federal secretary Roedad Khan who, being the head of the Margalla Hills Society (MHS), had gone to the Supreme Court to seek the vacation, welcomed the ISI’s move. “It is a good gesture and we are thankful for it,” said the conservationist who has been campaigning for long to preserve the beauty of Islamabad.
The Margalla Hills Society will develop trekking and hiking activities in the valley and establish an information centre on the fauna and flora of the Margalla region, he said.
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