Two sides of Christmas: As mayor cuts cake, Christians lay in wait
Children play on a trampoline on Christmas. PHOTO: ONLINE
ISLAMABAD: Christian adults have played a pivotal purpose in a growth of Islamabad and their services have been remarkable, concurred Islamabad Mayor and Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Sheikh Anser Aziz.
He voiced these views on Sunday while addressing a rite during Lok Virsa in Shakarparian in tie with Christmas.
But only a few kilometres away, Christians of a collateral distinguished a day as best they could, given that many of a areas where they are strong still miss simple comforts such as sanitation.
CDA sources pronounced that a 15-odd recognized katchi abadis in a sovereign collateral are horde to some 100,000 residents, a jagged series of whom are Christian.
Almost all of these slums miss simple amenities, and some county management officials can't eventuality compute between a authorised and bootleg settlements.
In an mocking twist, a infancy of a Christian dive dwellers work for a CDA as spotless staff, yet, a city does not offer sanitation services in these regions.
“We work day and night to keep a city clean, though we are vital the lives but simple sanitation services, purify celebration water, gas or electricity,” Yousaf Massih, an IMC spotless worker, told The Express Tribune.
He pronounced county authorities have also stopped them from regulating tube wells, electricity and gas connections, where available, claiming that these were performed illegally.
“I wish we had a residence where we could live with assent of mind and but any fear of demolition,” a CDA spotless workman told The Express Tribune.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 26th, 2016.
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