A view of Margalla Hills. PHOTO: ALI ANSARI
The Attorney General Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Parliamentary Affairs have been given notices for a hearing on September 26.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, leading a three-member bench will be hearing the case.
Pakistan Muslim League Quaid’s Mushahid Hussain Syed and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Roedad Khan have said that the Margalla Hills Tunnel Project is not feasible.
Margalla Hill Society opposed the project since the beginning and sought intervention of the Supreme Court.
Background
During a meeting on August 23 presided by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif the Tunnel Project was resurrected after being inactive for a long period of time.
The Prime Minister informed the meeting, that “a tunnel through the Margalla Hills to link Islamabad with Haripur would provide a shorter route to commuters of Gilgit- Baltistan, Mansehra and Abbottabad”.
CDA and National Highways Authority are in charge of the project, both of which had been directed to undertake all preliminary measures and work out details with record speed.
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Oh My God!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Dj: Spot on. You just figured out NS's entire conomic policy.
NS 's economic solutions. Lets take loans from the whole world to increase our debt, complain about the previous government not doing anything for the people and use the loan money to carry out billions of dollars worth useless projects. Go on worldwide vacations then whatever money is left spend it on buying the media so they can repeat the same process.
The Prime Minister informed the meeting, that “a tunnel through the Margalla Hills to link Islamabad with Haripur would provide a shorter route to commuters of Gilgit- Baltistan, Mansehra and Abbottabad”.
Truly NS has the good of the people at heart. Pakistan truly deserves him. Not.
Loving these suo motos more and more these days, you go CJ!
Thank you so much Chief Justice Sahib! Please save our city, save our home! This is not about one tunnel, this is about all the floodgates of destruction this one tunnel will open. We don't want our beautiful hills to suffer the same fate of the dynamited hills near the Nicholsan Monument. Please make this stop. Thank you!