CDA removes over dozen trees amid Service Road construction.

ISLAMABAD -- The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has allegedly removed over a dozen trees from a green belt being removed for constructing a Service Road linking F-9 sector with Blue Area without getting approval from Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

The Director General Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) Farzana Altaf Shah halted the construction work on the site as the CDA had removed trees and initiated the development work without Pak-EPA's permission.

Director CDA Environment Wing (West) Akhtar Rasool told reporter that the trees were removed rather transplanted whereas only two dead dry Saipem or Chinese Tallow Tree were chopped by the contractor of the project.

He...