To curb traffic jams, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) is considering to expand the Pir Sohawa Road, which connects Margalla Hills National Park, the federal capital, and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The road will also serve as an alternative route to Bari Imam.
Chairman, CDA Captain (r) Noor-ul-Amin Mengal told the National Assembly Standing Committee on Climate Change and Environmental Coordination meeting chaired by MNA Nuzhat Pathan that Pir Sohawa Road traffic has become a nuisance for the Capital Territory Administration.
He stated that the Pir Sohawa Road is a disaster on holidays and the traffic congestion is endangering nature and wildlife due to significant vehicle emissions.
The civic agency is also working on PC -1 to create a welcome and information center in the national park along Pir Sohawa Road. Mengal added that surveys are underway to expand the current road to a double road and an alternate route to Pir Sohawa.
The CDA head informed the Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWMB) that the civic agency had fenced the national park for the first time in 70 years. He said the benches, gazebos, and dustbins in the federal capital were made of reusable plastics to reduce plastic pollution.
The plan has received criticism prior to this as well, when Mengal shared it on his Twitter account. Pakistan’s current climate change minister Sherry Rehman was also among those who raised objections against this plan. Regardless, the civic agency seems prepared to begin constructing this road as soon as it is approved.
Islamabad becomes the jungle of buildings, fly overs.
Nature beauty is going to be vanished soon.
Sad to see Pakistan
Removal of so many un hygienic food stalls and play land from Damian e koh and high ticket from entrance from zoo onwards . Instead destroying the habbitat by road.
All the dollars Will be aired by these projects which only and only for Islamabadian for theirs luxuries cars and for foreigners also resulting huge taxes on poors of Pakistan
we r inhabitants of Islamabad n welcome all these projects…nature creates relief not inconvenience..in every event either eid or 14 august we struck in traffic cnt move from here to there…
تباہی شروع پہلے انوائرمنٹ کے نام پر مونال پر قبضہ کیا درختوں کی تباہی سٹارٹ
Simply natural beauty going to earth and there’s is no law in Pakistan
excellent idea .. 99% of people going to pirshawah on weekends are not from Islamabad. the single roads gets very congested. If a car breaks down or there is an accident , it becomes a nightmare for others
Noor UK Amin Mengal will not be less than Lashari to add beauty to Islamabad, IA.
It’s Noor ul Amin Mengal.