Car parking mafia.

Byline: Muhammad Baseer - Peshawar

WITH an increase in the number of cars in major cities, the demand and need for car parking has greatly increased. But we have noticed that in the past many years many illegal car parking lots have been established charging a high fees.

Unfortunately, none of the successive government has ever tried to regulate this 'industry'. Take the example of University Town in Peshawar through which the central railway track passes. A well-established children and women's hospital has been operational since the 1980s beside the railway track, while many offices and businesses operate in University Town.

Two years ago, the University Town administrators banned car parking outside the hospital, forcing them to rent railway land for illegal car parking, charging Rs50 for each car. A car park for UNHCR was also established there.

When the University Town administrators ended the parking ban and the illegal parking to convert the environmentally degraded area into a park, railway authorities...