Housing Society Victims Demand Forensic Audits and Probe Into ‘Irregularities’ in Islamabad
People who paid for plots and are still waiting for possession took their case to the National Press Club on Friday, demanding forensic audits across 41 cooperative housing societies.
Highlights
- Affectees of housing societies including Jinnah Garden, Sohan Garden, Capital Enclave and Gulberg demanded transparent forensic audits and impartial inquiries into all housing societies
- They allege negligence and failure by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Cooperative Department
- The demands cover land ownership, plot allotments, financial transactions, commercialisation and administrative decisions
- Residents say allottees in 41 cooperative housing societies fall into groups that paid but never received possession, or face other disputes
- They called for verifiable possession of plots to be handed to all affected citizens within three months
Paid in full, still waiting for plots
Victims and residents of housing societies on Friday urged the government to conduct transparent forensic audits and impartial inquiries into all housing societies, alleging negligence, irregularities and failure on the part of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Cooperative Department Dawn.
Addressing a press conference at the National Press Club, the residents and affected people of societies including Jinnah Garden, Sohan Garden Phase I and II, Capital Enclave, Kashmir Housing Society, the Life Residencia and Gulberg demanded that the authorities investigate land ownership, plot allotments, financial transactions, commercialisation and administrative decisions, and bring those responsible to justice Dawn.
The two categories of grievance
The speakers said there are two major categories of issues in 41 cooperative housing societies: the first involves allottees who, despite paying money, were running from pillar to post to get possession of plots Dawn. The second category covers the wider disputes around the societies’ administration and development obligations.
They called for verifiable possession of plots to be handed over to all affected citizens within three months Dawn.
A wider regulatory question
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has recently stated that there are 150 unauthorised housing schemes, adding that CDA teams were working on each of them Dawn. That figure frames the affectees’ core argument: unauthorised schemes are a known quantity, so the failure they allege is not detection but enforcement — audits, accountability and possession timelines that citizens can verify.
A forensic audit, if the government accepts the demand, would test the paper trail behind allotments and commercialisation decisions society by society. For families whose savings sit in unpossessed plots, that paper trail is the whole case.
