ISLAMABAD: The director general planning of the Capital Development Authority Ghulam Sarwar Sandhu has always been close to successive civic authority’s chairmen.

He has previously worked at key positions serving as deputy director planning, director housing societies, director enforcement division, deputy director general building control section.

An official of the authority not willing to share his name said that during the former chairman Kamran Lashari’s period, Mr Sandhu was part of several planning matters and was given additional charge of key posts in planning division.

The CDA chairman Farkhand Iqbal and the spokesman for the authority were not available to comment as their mobile phones were switched off.

The official said that Mr Lashari later created a new post of director housing societies to accommodate Mr Sandhu and the post was given to him.

During the tenures of former chairmen CDA from 2008-12, Tariq Mehmood and Imtiaz Inayat Elahi, Mr Sandhu was given a current charge of director general planning and recently he was confirmed on the post.

The planning wing looks after the designing of the city and approves layout plans of new sectors.—Staff Reporter