Developments in Islamabad of Defence Housing Authority, Islamabad. It is facing the G.T. Road and is situated in the midst of a 330 kanal long commercial strip which will be completely developed by AL Ghurair Giga Pakistan (PVt.) Limited. The World Trade Center, Islamabad is approximately 13 kilometers from the central business district. The government is working on the feasibility of the mass transit rail system between Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad and its twin Rawalpindi city. The Capital Development Authority is planning to develop the existing Islamabad Zoo. The current proposal will extend the existing zoo over an area of and will
Islamabad is home to twenty universities, including the Quaid-e-Azam University, PIEAS, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology and NUST. The city is one of the safest in Pakistan, and has an expansive surveillance system with 1,900 CCTV cameras. The name of the city, "Islamabad", is derived from two words, "Islam" and "abad", meaning "City of Islam". "Islam" is an Arabic word which refers to the religion of Islam and "-abad" is a Persian suffix indicating an "inhabited place" or "city". Islamabad Capital Territory, located on the Pothohar Plateau of the Punjab region, is considered one of the earliest sites of human settlement