CDA asked to focus on creating parking areas.

ISLAMABAD -- Appreciating CDA's recent recruitment of 17 new professionals in its planning wing, Islamabad Builders Association (IBA) urged it to also focus on the capital city's parking issue.

Talking to Dawn on Friday, IBA President Chaudhry Naseer said that due to poor planningduring the last two decades, parking spaces are shrinking fast. 'We welcome CDA's move of recruiting 17 new town planners. Now we expect and demand that CDA will alsoresolve the parking issue in Islamabad,' he said.

'In Blue Area, F-8 Markaz, G-9 Markaz, Aabpara Market and other marakiz, it has become difficult for people to get a space for parking their vehicles.

'CDA was supposed to build a parking plazain Blue Area, where designated plots are available, but it was not focused on. While planning new commercial plots in the rest of Blue Area, starting from Khyber Plaza towards the F-10 side, CDA should...