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ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court on Monday expressed displeasure over lenient approach of Punjab police in arresting accused of a drag race organizers in Rawalpindi and ordered their chief to arrest all the four and submit a report on Tuesday. The car race had resulted in loss of five lives last week.The three-judge bench also expressed its[…]
LAHORE: Pakistan Business and Investment conference is being held in Dubai today which will have over 140 delegates from Pakistan meeting with a similar number of UAE based investors and traders for match making and finalising agreements of mutual interest. This said Chief Executive Officer Punjab Board of Investment and Trade (PBIT) Saadat Muzaffar while[…]
LAHORE: Punjab Governor Salman Taseer has said that the ‘Ashiyana’ Housing Scheme will prove to be another scam of the Punjab government. He said this while talking to journalists after the prize distribution ceremony of 27th Governor’s Golf Cup tournament here on Sunday Accusing the Punjab government of exploiting the poor masses, Taseer said Rs[…]
QUETTA: A high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani reviewed ongoing projects and other issues of coastal regions of Balochistan.
MULTAN: A woman was set on fire by her husband and brother-in-law for refusing to sign over her property on Friday. 42-year-old Afshan was admitted to the burn unit of Nishtar Hospital where doctors declared her to be in a critical condition. “We are trying our best but we aren’t very hopeful. Afshan has sustained[…]
Lahore: CHIEF Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif during a meeting on Friday gave a briefing to PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif regarding the low-cost housing scheme called Aashiana. The CM said that Aashiana Housing Project for providing accommodation to low-income people had started from Lahore and its scope would be extended throughout the province. He said[…]
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) plans to establish a Central Business District focusing on MM Alam Road to encourage businesses and create jobs in the city.
Ashiana Housing Project is the latest addition in the relatively small list of housing schemes in Lahore, especially those which are planned with the objective of providing housing to lower-middle class of the society (who otherwise can just dream of owning a house in their lifetime). Ashiana Housing Scheme is a project by Punjab Land[…]
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has given a 100 percent building period waiver for the second time to the Nazria-e-Pakistan Trust flouting its own decision taken in 2001 and making a mockery of all slogans of merit and rule of law of the Punjab government, Pakistan Today has learn. The LDA extended the building[…]
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has planned to launch a new bus service by March next to meet the growing needs of commuters, traveling between the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. A CDA official informed Pakistan Today on Monday that two local firms had pre-qualified to run 35 buses on four proposed routes[…]
Tram project is an essential component in creating a fully integrated system for Dubai. The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai is on track with its light rail project, linking the Mall of the Emirates and Dubai Marina via Al Sufouh. This is the first phase of a project slated to open in 2012.[…]
Islamabad: Under the banner of its brand Evo Nitro Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) in collaboration with High Performance Racing (HPR) brings the drag racing competition for all avid car racers.
LAHORE (December 03, 2010) : Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday speaking at the inauguration ceremony of ‘Ashiana Housing Scheme Project’ said that they were initiating housing scheme for the down trodden and low-income groups in line with the vision of PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif. He said this low-cost housing scheme would be unparalleled[…]
Islamabad: Capital Development Authority (CDA) has allotted one and a half acre land for setting up a weekly bazaar in Bhara Kahu. The issue of land for establishment of weekly bazaar in Bhara Kahu was in doldrum for last 20 years. The residents of Bhara Kahu had given several applications to CDA in this regard[…]
RAWALPINDI: The Ministry of Defence has approved a housing scheme covering over 30 acre of land for its own and the Army General Headquarters (GHQ)’s low-income employees from BPS-7 to BPS-14 and awarded development task to Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB). The housing scheme will have a school, mosque, modern park and other facilities while, the[…]
Zero Point Interchange (ZPI), one of the on-going mega projects of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), would be completed by December 31 this year, said Project Director Mumtaz Hussain. “We have planned to open the interchange by December 31 and hopefully we will achieve the objective within the stipulated time,” he told this agency. However,[…]
Rawalpindi: The Ministry of Defence has approved a housing scheme covering over 30 acre of land for its own and the Army General Headquarters (GHQ)’s low-income employees from BPS-7 to BPS-14 and awarded development task to Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB). The housing scheme will have a school, mosque, modern park and other facilities while, the[…]
Dubai: The Green Line of the Dubai Metro will be completed according to revised plans as the construction work is not hampered due to any payment issues, said a senior official. Quashing rumours of further delay in the opening of the Green Line, Abdul Mohsin Ebrahim Younus, CEO of Strategy and Corporate Governance at the[…]
KARACHI: Eight petitioners and the Defence Society Residents Association have taken the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) to court for levying refurbishment charges on the housing society’s plot owners. The petitioners maintain that in May 2009, DHA’s governing body decided to levy refurbishment charges in Phases I to VII at different rates, varying from Rs150 per[…]
The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) would start development work on a housing scheme at Chakra for low-paid employees of Ministry of Defence on 25th of this month.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday emphasised the importance of the implementation of a trilateral transit trade agreement with Afghanistan and Tajikistan and the connectivity between Tajikistan and Pakistan through construction of a road between Chitral and Tajikistan through the Wakhan Corridor to promote trade and economic ties.
KARACHI: After a prolonged recession in the real estate market, commercial projects seem to be the first to witness some sunshine as prices of retail outlets have more than doubled over the past year – mainly on the back of a surge in demand. Karachi alone has witnessed the opening of five shopping malls over[…]
LARKANA: It appears that the Taluka Municipal Administration may have lost one hundred years of the city’s property records, revealed sources unwilling to be named. All records for Sachal Colony, Sheikh Zaid Colony and the Old Bus Stand area as well as for 1,000 other plots have been lost, paving the way for illegal constructions,[…]
QUETTA – Speaker Balochistan Assembly, Muhammad Aslam Bhootani has revealed that Prime Minister House is exerting pressure on Balochistan government to sell land to Arab Sheikhs in his constituency in district Lasbela near coastal highway. He warned that people of Balochistan would resist if the proposed land was sold to Arab Sheikhs. Addressing a Press[…]
