According to news reports, the animal kept as a pet allegedly by a former senior army official in the DHA neighbourhood managed to get out of the cage and jumped in the street.
A video doing rounds on social media showed the wildcat in a street before it jumped inside a private property and disappeared.
The footage showed the frightened residents and onlookers atop the houses surrounding the property.
Meanwhile, the city's administration says that the leopard has been locked up in the basement of a house, and the residents were asked to stay away from the scene.
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The directives were issued as a lot of people gathered at the spot to make videos. Officials of the wildlife department, Rescue 1122 and security officials are at work to capture the animal.
Two months ago, Islamabad Wildlife Management Board prepared a guideline for the visitors to avoid leopard encounters and attacks in Margalla Hills National Park.
The protected area recently emerged as a biodiversity-rich zone, thriving with all of its species of birds, plants, animals, reptiles, and insect life.
It also became home to the endangered Asian Leopards that would earlier descend from higher mountain regions in winter amid heavy snowfall.
The increased sighting of the wildcats were captured numerous times on camera, prompting the authorities to ensure that the public remains safe and the wildlife, preserved.
In a more recent development, a rare leopard was trapped by the locals in the Barghozi village in Upper Chitral.
The animal was caught by wildlife officials and later released in its natural habitat after some treatment.
The wildcat had strayed into the populated area keen for food and was then spotted by the locals. The residents, in order to protect the poultry, put it into a cage.
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