CDA fails to resolve Margalla Avenue project's issues.

ISLAMABAD -- The work on under-construcAtion Margalla Avenue project has been stalled once again as the contractor stopped working on site after CDA's failure to setAtle an access road dispute with locals and due to the pending financial liabilities.

The physical progress of the project is about 95 percent and except about a kilometre long patch, rest of the road is fully carpeted and traffic is running over there without its formal inauguration, which was due in March 2023.

However; reliable sources, while talking to this scribe, has informed that the project has been stalled due to a dispute of local land owners near Shah AlAlah Ditta with the Capital DevelAopment Authority, who wanted to get either a direct access from main Margalla Avenue or wantAed a dedicated service road from Shah Allah Ditta underpass.

Earlier, CDA's Enforcement Directorate was tasked to clear this portion of land to resume construction work but the same could not be materialized due to the resistance of local people.

Meanwhile, it has been learnt reliably that the contractor is also showing half-heartedness towards the project due to a pending liability towards the civic authority and...