RDA to get fourth chief in five months
National
May 24, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Rawal-pindi Development Authority (RDA), which has a large number of private housing societies and housing schemes under its control, is going to get its fourth director general in just five months.
The average stay of every director general during this period has been very brief, a close look at their tenures shows. On every occasion, cases relating to one housing society or the other owned by influential persons became the primary reason for the removal of successive RDA chiefs.
Amara Khan, later appointed the director general of the Peshawar Development Authority, was transferred out as RDA chief on December 15, 2020. Maqbool Ahmad Dhawla, who was serving as the head of the Koh-e-Suleman Development Authority, Dera Ghazi Khan, immediately replaced her. Dhawla was removed after only two months on February 20, 2021. Capt (retd) Abdul Sattar Isani, who replaced him, was transferred two days ago and rel
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National
May 20, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Rawalpindi Commissioner Gulzar Shah’s fact-finding report into the aborted Rawalpindi Ring Road (R3) project, which the government has adopted and is acting upon, does not contain a word in defence from at least three dozen officials, private parties and housing societies that have been named and accused of serious misdemeanours.
A reading of the 33-page report shows that at no point did the commissioner summon the “delinquents” to confront them with his findings, observations and conclusions before implicating them in the mega scandal. If he ever gave them a hearing, it is not reflected in his report. The report uses strong words against those it found responsible for the scam. Among others, it uses terms such as “unethical silence” and “rent seeking syndicate” to describe them and their actions.
ISLAMABAD: The minority inquiry report into the Rawalpindi Ring Road project, which the government has owned and approved, refers on two occasions to the dubious role of those referred to as.
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