The owners of the apartments 240 in number find themselves in a predicament
LONDON: According to CDA Chairman Sheikh Anser Aziz in a disconcerting statement to the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat, the purchasers of apartments in One Constitution Avenue will be paid compensation for the apartments they have purchased.
The owners of the apartments, 240 in number, find themselves in a predicament where, due to the complicity of the CDA, they have been defrauded. CDA is a factor in the issue, not the solution. The apartments have been purchased by the buyers legally with the full awareness of the CDA; a number of us made direct enquiries from CDA before buying the apartments and were guaranteed it was an approved project and we should go ahead without any concerns.
The apartments have been constructed with the money paid by the owners, which includes 79 overseas Pakistanis like me who brought hard earned and valuable remittances into the country. Part of our money was also used by the developer to pay CDA for the land. It is very unfortunate that CDA is so bent on getting its hand on our apartments instead of completing the project and handing it over to us, the legitimate owners.
Ehsan Mani
Published in The Express Tribune, July 20th, 2017.
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