Islamabad – Our Political Correspondent: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) in Islamabad has announced plans to demolish any and all sense of decency in the federal capital.
“It has been a long-standing plan that was to be a slight deviation from the original Doxiadis plan,” said Haidar Rizvi, CDS spokesman. “Even though we have just formally announced it, the efforts have been underway since a long time.”
“The absence of housing for low-income individuals, being the only capital city in the region that didn’t have a proper system for public transport and other assorted aspects always did lead this way,” says Fayaz Haider, professor of urban planning at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. “This merely formalises that trajectory.”
“Proof of concept of the plan had already been established long ago in the D-12 case and we’ve seen a repeat in the I-11 case,” said interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. “This means we’re pretty much good to go with the new plan.”
The yet-to-pass Islamabad Demolition of Decency Bill, 2015, is to entail a plethora of clauses, including: a curfew on the movement and breathing of domestic labour as soon as they leave the premises of their work; a requirement for domestic labour to be seated under the tables of patrons at restaurants; the establishment of domestic-labour polytechnics where the students will learn how to walk without ever looking up, etc.