PAC meeting – ‘DHA City’ status, Defence sec feigns ignorance

eProperty | Defence Housing Authority, Lahore Real Estate | February 8, 2011

ISLAMABAD – Secretary Defence Lt General (retd) Syed Athar Ali Khan on Thursday failed to tell the status of DHA City Lahore to the Public Accounts Committee.

During PAC meeting, when Riaz Fitana asked the secretary defence to clear the position of DHA City Lahore, secretary defence said, “Either DHA City Lahore is the part of Defence Housing Authority or it is a private entity and if it has been launched by a private company then why is the name ‘DHA’ being used?”

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Police nab 2 maids for theft

eProperty | Defence Housing Authority, Islamabad Real Estate | February 4, 2011

* Valuables worth Rs 20m recovered

* Mastermind also arrested

KARACHI: The Darakshan police on Tuesday apprehended two domestic runaway maids, who had stolen valuables worth Rs 20 million from the residence of a relative of the Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza. The crime had taken place a week ago, but the untiring efforts of the police proved fruitful.

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Land acquisition: Punjab CM cancels DHA’s illegal notification

eProperty | Defence Housing Authority, Lahore Real Estate | February 4, 2011

LAHORE: Chief Minister of Punjab Shabaz Sharif has ordered provincial revenue and law departments and the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) to cancel an illegal notification and called for taking disciplinary action against the DHA lahore authorities.

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A GRAVE CONCERN – To find a grave in DHA’s graveyard

eProperty | Defence Housing Authority, Lahore Real Estate | February 1, 2011

LAHORE – The Defense Housing Authority (DHA) has changed the burial policy but have failed to live up to the DHA members’ demands, Pakistan Today has learnt. Sources in DHA said the members had a ‘long-standing’ demand with the DHA to allow the burial of the son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandkids and grandparents.

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Govt decides to table DHA Bill in NA

eProperty | Defence Housing Authority | January 30, 2011

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to table the ‘Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Islamabad Bill 2007’ in National Assembly (NA) during the ongoing second last session of the 3rd parliamentary year, despite strong reservations of the opposition party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) over the bill, said well-placed sources on Tuesday.

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