our agriculture sector. It is ironic that even though coverage of the recent local bodies election in Islamabad recognised that the winners and losers of the election would be decided by how the city’s informal settlements vote, the CDA seems to have no place for them in its vision for the future of the capital city. These ‘ugly villages’, according to the CDA, distort the ‘beauty’ of Islamabad. The CDA also seems to think that regulation only encourages more informal settlements. The last logic is certainly correct, but for a different reason. Where the government has not created any new schemes to house the urban poor, the poor are left with no option but to form informal settlements. The CDA’s reply to the SC weakens its own case by exposing its sheer bigotry. The highest court in the country is doing a good job of forcing the government to take notice of the plight of the shelter-less poor. But whether this will lead to any significant change in the government’s priorities still remains to be seen.
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