Capital facing twin menace of vendors, greedy officials.ISLAMABAD, November 17, 2009 (Balochistan Times): Conflicting reports keep surfacing about the ultimate destination of CDA-impounded foodstuff with officials also facing allegations of turning a blind eye to rampaging vendors in the capital city. More than quarter, including this scribe scribe (skrīb), Jewish scholar and teacher (called in Hebrew, Soferim) of law as based upon the Old Testament and accumulated traditions. The work of the scribes laid the basis for the Oral Law, as distinct from the Written Law of the Torah. , observed CDA (1) (Compact Disc Audio) The compact disc file extension that is seen on the computer in Explorer or some other file manager. CDA files are actually pointers to the locations of the individual tracks on the CD medium. See CD-DA. anti-encroachment staff allegedly misappropriating fruit and other foodstuff as these CDA vigilantes vigilantes (vĭjĭlăn`tēz), members of a vigilance committee. Such committees were formed in U.S. frontier communities to enforce law and order before a regularly constituted government could be established or have real authority. were even not above suspicion about enjoying meals at Chappar food eateries (kiosks), free of cost. CDA officials, however, denied all allegations, emphasising that confiscates foodstuff, including fruit, are distributed to the religious seminaries while all efforts are afoot to clear away the vendors and encroachers from the public places. Notwithstanding these claims, vendors in the capital city are encroaching upon the footpaths along the roads to run their small businesses. Besides, this scribe once personally witnessed a CDA enforcement official asking for free of cost three-time meals on daily basis from the owner of a Chappar Hotel at I-8 Markaz. When this correspondent questioned this official, he stated that he was not the first person to indulge in this malpractice. There are many other colleagues from the CDA eating free of cost food items from different Chappar hotels, he retorted. This correspondent also witnessed CDA enforcement department officials conducting a flurry if raids at Fruit Market (Sabzi Mandi) but to his surprise, mostly fruit was taken away in bulk by them while other things of the vendors were left untouched. The tendency of officials to target only foodstuff has compounded the problem of encroachments in the city, causing inconvenience not only to the pedestrians, but also posing threat to the life and limbs of people as some shops selling glass items dump glass pieces and other waste on the footpaths. When contacted, an official of the CDA told that the concerned authorities have strictly warned the vendors to avoid encroachment An illegal intrusion in a highway or navigable river, with or without obstruction. An encroachment upon a street or highway is a fixture, such as a wall or fence, which illegally intrudes into or invades the highway or encloses a portion of it, diminishing its width or area, but , adding that CDA also confiscated con·fis·cate tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. adj. several goods from the footpaths. He said that CDA was committed to discouraging and stopping the activities of the vendors and shopkeepers on the footpaths. (THROUGH ASIA PULSE) |
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