No place to go

Residents of Gulshan–e-Jinnah, Sector F-5/1, Islamabad, are under severe mental stress because of the cancellation orders of their flats. In compliance of the orders of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) given in light of the fight between two people each of them claiming to have the right to live in the house, the authorities issued cancellation orders to all allottees regardless of the fact that many of them have a legal right to have the possession of the house. Now the question is: where will more than 200 families go at once? The fight of two people over the occupation of one flat has affected all the families living in the housing society.

On the one hand, the PM is launching new residential schemes for homeless people. On the other hand, deserving government servants are being deprived of their basic right. Big and spacious government houses may be divided into two houses so that more families can be accommodated. The authorities who are overseeing the matter must see this issue from a humane and sympathetic lens.

Shagufta Ansari ( Islamabad )