The Interior Ministry has reduced the number of Union Councils (UCs) from 79 to 50 in Islamabad separating the two sensitive sectors, E-8 and E-9 from the UCs as Naval Complex and Air Headquarters are located in these sectors respectively.
“These two sensitive sectors are likely to be declared Cantonment areas”, sources in the Interior Ministry said.
According to details, the Interior Ministry had delimited the UCs of federal capital for upcoming local government (LG) polls.
However, defense authorities expressed their concern over the inclusion of Sector E-8 and E-9 under the administration of the metropolitan, keeping in view the sensitive nature of these two sectors. Therefore, it was decided not to include these sectors in the metropolitan.
Sources further said that due to non-census of population after 1998, the interior ministry had reduced the number of UCs in the federal capital while keeping in view the ratio of population.
