Capital admin seeks time for reply to housing society's plea.

Byline: Malik Asad

ISLAMABAD -- The district administration on Thursday sought time from Islamabad High Court (IHC) to submit reply to a petition filed by a private housing society seeking permission to resume development of its scheme stalled for decades.

An IHC bench, comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah, resumed hearing of the petition of the housing society that failed to develop over 7,000 plots since 1988 for one pretext or another.

Last week, the court had issued notice to Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Hamza Shafqaat and Director General ICT Syeda Shafaq Hashmi and sought their reply for suspending the management of Ministry of Commerce Employees Cooperative Housing Society (MCECHS) for over a year which, according to the petition, further delayed the development work.

Advocate Raja Inam Ameen Minhas, the counsel for the MCECHS, argued before the court that the development was at a standstill since National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the district administration initiated a number of inquiries on already settled matters.

The court granted five days to the district administration for filing the reply and adjourned hearing to May 19.

According to the petition, NAB initially had frozen the bank accounts of the housing society but after the IHC passed an order in late 2018 ordering for the...

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