Timber mafia has been engaged in cutting wood from the thick forests of Islamabad due to negligence of capital development authority.
The people of Islamabad and Rawalpindi are using woods and LNG due to gas shortage in intense winter. The timber mafias, taking advantage of shortage of gas has started cutting woods from forest of Islamabad fulfilling demands to pocket money.
Poor women have been hired for wood cutting. The women said that timber mafias pick and drop them through their vehicles near forests of Islamabad.
They are paid a pennies amount when compared to rates of fire wood at stalls. The wood is being supplied to restaurants, hotels and woods sellers at a high rate.
They said that the timber mafias, in order to save themselves from CDA action, are using poor women to collect woods. Meanwhile despite a huge manpower in its enforcement department, the CDA has failed to check the cutting of wood and it is a common sight that poor women and are carrying the wood on their heads or bicycles either to their homes or to the wood stalls.
