In a shocking development, locals in Islamabad’s Sector H-13 reportedly discovered oil beneath their houses while a water bore was being drilled in a house.
When word got out in a flurry of text messages and phone calls, dozens of locals rushed to the scene and started drilling holes for the ‘oil’. Some went a little overboard with their extraction projects and installed suction pumps ‘to pump out the oil’, according to a report.
The area has currently been sealed off by the local administration, pending an inquiry subject to the Commissioner’s office.
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The Deputy Commissioner of Islamabad, Muhammed Hamza Shafqaat, took notice of the situation and tweeted, “At the moment we have sealed over a dozen such pumps. Locals were selling the oil to brick kilns”.
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The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has also been notified of the development, and it is currently investigating the issue with the concerned authorities, he added.
