Islamabad needs a new Stadium near the scenic mountains

[Asian.Century]

New site of Islamabad Cricket Stadium behind the Mountains hopefully discussed:

 

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New site of Islamabad Cricket Stadium behind the Mountains hopefully discussed:

We dont need a cricket stadium.. people of islamabad will go against this. Write this down. It will bring more traffic, pollution and crowd with it .. we are fine with the existing pindi stadium.

 

[Asian.Century]

We dont need a cricket stadium.. people of islamabad will go against this. Write this down. It will bring more traffic, pollution and crowd with it .. we are fine with the existing pindi stadium.

Brother it will give Islamabad continuous international recognition, exposure and income for Islamabad.
Traffic, Crowd all can be limited by tickets high prices to bring quality people, and putting limits to admission.

 

[WinterFangs]

Brother it will give Islamabad continuous international recognition, exposure and income for Islamabad.
Traffic, Crowd all can be limited by tickets high prices to bring quality people, and putting limits to admission.

Sure it’ll bring exposure, at the expense of noise pollution and increased traffic. Why not build the stadium in a remote area of Islamabad and work around it. I live near Wembley, which is basically now the national stadium of England. 20 years ago this stadium was a shithole with nothing around it, now you look at it, they’ve got high end apartments, and beautiful shopping centre, land value boomed. They got metro/train stations around the station, during match day although there might be some traffic, Almost all match goers are using the train. The issue with Pakistan is I have no hope that they’ll make this stadium cater to its surrounding, they’ll make it stick out like a sore thumb, all match goers will use car and clog up the roads. Pakistan first needs to improve its public transport infrastructure before they make a stadium in Islamabad. Why not renovate other existting stadiums and make them much much better, with increased seating if need, The stadiums already look crap, building new stadiums won’t help those stadiums.

 

[Asian.Century]

 

[Asian.Century]

 

[Asian.Century]

Need it quick ICC Champions trophy is fast approaching:

 

[alphapak]

Sure it’ll bring exposure, at the expense of noise pollution and increased traffic. Why not build the stadium in a remote area of Islamabad and work around it. I live near Wembley, which is basically now the national stadium of England. 20 years ago this stadium was a shithole with nothing around it, now you look at it, they’ve got high end apartments, and beautiful shopping centre, land value boomed. They got metro/train stations around the station, during match day although there might be some traffic, Almost all match goers are using the train. The issue with Pakistan is I have no hope that they’ll make this stadium cater to its surrounding, they’ll make it stick out like a sore thumb, all match goers will use car and clog up the roads. Pakistan first needs to improve its public transport infrastructure before they make a stadium in Islamabad. Why not renovate other existting stadiums and make them much much better, with increased seating if need, The stadiums already look crap, building new stadiums won’t help those stadiums.

This is what I have been saying that they should limit the capacity of every stadium to
20 to 25 thousand only. I live in a town in north west on weekends when football is
played in local stadium even 10 thousand can cause traffic nightmare.

They have to either limit the capacity of the ground or make it on outskirts and build
a proper metro system so most people use buses, trains instead of cars.

 

[On the Edge]

no Islamabad doesn't need another huge pc of concrete, its natural beauty has already been destroyed enough with influx of population and mad and unplanned urbanisation

pindi stadium is literally 15-20 minutes away

why make one in Islamabad?

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Spare the last few forest in Pakistan

 

[khansaheeb]

Islamabad which has no International modern cricket or football stadium- the capital boosts a beautiful mountainous margalla range at the back. To give a new look to cricket and football PCB/CSA/Govt should build state of the art most modern new stadium nearest to the scenic mountains ranges. Even PCB needs a new head office in Islamabad other than Lahore.

Islamabad United has no ground/stadium to call home

ISLAMABAD:
Sunday brought a second winner’s trophy for Islamabad United — by far the most prolific team in Pakistan Super League. Ironically, the team has no real presence in the city apart from on some billboards.

Worryingly the team cannot really even play in front of its home fans even if it wanted to since the city lacks a professional cricket stadium, and has unsurprisingly listed the Rawalpindi cricket stadium as its home ground in official paraphernalia.

Even youngsters in the city, playing amateur cricket, often find it hard to find a place to play in the city owing to encroachment or illegal occupation of the grounds by some private cricketing clubs or the outright absence of these grounds.

The Capital Development Authority (CDA), the main body responsible for creating sporting grounds in the city, has developed some hockey, football, and cricket ground along with some multipurpose sports grounds in different sectors of the federal capital.

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“The main idea behind the development of sports grounds in Islamabad was to provide healthy sports facilities to the youth of the city,” an official of Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation’s (IMC) Sports and Culture Directorate told The Express Tribune on the condition of anonymity. “But such services are not available for everyone in federal capital as many grounds are still under the illegal occupation of some individuals under the garb of private clubs.”

There are eight cricket grounds which were occupied by private clubs who rent them out for a fee. These are located in Sector F-7/1, Sector F-11/1, Sector G-11/1, Sector G-7 Markaz, Sector F-7/3, Margalla Road, Sector G-8/2, and the Saidpur cricket ground.

Last year, the IMC had launched an operation against such individuals and managed to retrieve five grounds from their illegal possession which the clubs used to rent out.

IMC Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz had vowed to retrieve all such grounds and had launched an action against illegal occupants but he had to succumb to the pressure of influential occupants and operation was halted.

Sources in the IMC said that when they sealed the Shalimar Ground, a close relative of the former prime minister had allegedly influenced the mayor to yield control of the ground back to the private club from whom it had been wrested from.

Similarly, when IMC tried to retrieve the ground located in Sector G-8/2, an office bearer of the Islamabad Cricket Association (ICA) managed to obtain a stay order from a court. Ultimately, the IMC had to abandon its operation.

IMC Sport and Culture Assistant Director Shahzad Ahmed, while speaking to The Express Tribune, categorically stated that it was illegal to rent out public grounds and that whenever they received complaints about it, they took indiscriminate action against unscrupulous elements.

“We have received complains that some elements are secretly charging fees for allowing the use of grounds from residents under the pretext of club fees in a clandestine manner,” Ahmed said, adding that according to a new policy, clubs had been allowed to use the grounds on specific days.

He added that the situation had significantly improved since they undertook an operation last year in which the IMC had sealed several grounds which had been illegally occupied by certain individuals.

Stadium

Despite all the grounds in the capital, none of them can boast international standards, and thus be eligible to host a PSL match featuring Islamabad United.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had planned to build a stadium per international standards in the Shakarparian area of the city.

The CDA and the PCB had also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in 2012 in this regard. The civic authority had subsequently allotted 35 acres near Shakarparian for the construction of the stadium.

It was a lucrative deal for the CDA who stood to take home 30 per cent of the proceeds from any international match played apart from a share in the sponsorships. The remaining 70 per cent would go to the PCB.

The stadium was supposed to cost around Rs2 billion, and the entire project was supposed to have been completed within a year.

However, the National Council for Conservation of Wildlife (NCCW), the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA), environmentalists, parliamentarians, and former International Cricket Council (ICC) President Ehsan Mani had dismissed the viability of the facility — primarily because international cricket was yet to return to the country at the time and the PSL was not even on the horizon.

Environmentalists were of the view that permission for building a stadium in Shakarparian would be a sheer violation of the Islamabad Wildlife (Protection, Preservation, Conservation and Management) Ordinance 1979, as well as a violation of the city’s master plan.

Former cricket team manager Saleem Asghar Mian and Mani had argued that the stadium would be bad for the city’s green image and would likely turn into a white elephant. They suggested that the money would be better spent upgrading the Rawalpindi stadium which is located just five kilometres from the proposed site.

Since then, the projects was shelved by the PCB.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1669302/1-islamabad-united-no-ground-call-home/

They should have high latitude training stadiums which could be rented out to teams from around the world.

 

[Asian.Century]

 

[Asian.Century]

 

[wali87]

What Islamabad needs is a state of the art library overlooking the mountains. We need to be spending on things that matter instead of cricket. Our nation is more interested in cricket these days instead of education. That’s one of the main reasons Pakistan no longer produces intellectuals. Turn on the tv in Pakistan and you only see three things. 60% news channels 20% low grade drama channels and 20% sports channel of which majority only show cricket.

 

[KAL-EL]

It should be a hybrid type of stadium that can accommodate cricket, and also a future Pakistani NFL franchise.