Pakistan

Parking lot: Comsats evicted from rented property

The girls’ hostel building was later declared structurally unsound by an engineering firm

Our Correspondent July 31, 2015

Comsats had gone to court after the land owner of the parking lot wanted them gone. PHOTO: FILE

ISLAMABAD:

The Shehzad Town police on Friday evicted the Comsats Institute of Information Technology from its rented parking lot after a court ruled in favour of the property owner.

The owner had rented out the land to Comsats for use as a parking lot. He later asked them to vacate the property after prices escalated in the area. The Comsats management got a stay and refused to vacate, prompting the owner to move the court, which set aside the stay and issued eviction orders.

According to Shehzad Town Station House Officer Rana Arshad, after the court verdict, a police team reached the venue and demolished steel car-sheds erected by the Comsats management and vacated the land.

The SHO said Comsats has lost control of 40 kanals of its own land due to encroachments after it failed to raise a boundary wall, despite getting funds for the purpose from the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Comsats has rented two buildings for use as a girls’ hostel and an entrepreneurship incubation centre, on monthly rents of over Rs1.2 million each. The girls’ hostel building was later declared structurally unsound by an engineering firm.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 1^st, 2015.

COMMENTS (1)

Leo | 9 years ago | Reply You fail to mention that the the owner of the land demanded a raise in rent AFTER signing a 5-year lease agreement. You also fail to mention the inability of SHO and police to vacate the 40 kanal univeristy property form illegal qabza mafia. How can comsats build a security wall when shots by that qabza mafia were fired in air everytime they tried to build the wall? seems like a totally biased article.

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