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LAHORE: Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif has sanctioned a special development package of Rs 2,770 million for Bahawalpur division to mitigate the demand of a separate province in southern Punjab, sources said.
Karachi: The unprecedented monsoon downpour which started on Saturday brought havoc to the city’s civic infrastructure and caused inundation of large areas. The quantum of rain water was so much that initially the drains overflowed causing flooding in many areas. DHA and CBC responded to the challenge with remarkable agility and brought the situation to[…]
LAHORE: The Board of Revenue Punjab has issued new stamp papers having various security features for checking fraud and bogus registration in the sale and purchase of properties and preparation of documents.
RESIDENTS of Mustafa Town, a locality on Wahdat Road, are forced to put up with stinking smell and poisonous gasses emanating from a landfill site used by the Punjab University (New Campus) to dump and burn its garbage.
QUETTA – The Balochistan government has allocated 46,000 acres of lands for setting up a tax-free industrial zone at Gwadar, said Balochistan Industries Minister Syed Ehan Shah while talking to The Nation here on Saturday.
THE Katar Bund industrial area, a few kilometres away from Thokar Niaz Baig, has completely broken roads and no sewerage system and lack of facilities discourages white-collar workers to accept jobs in the industrial units.
Major General Asif Ali HI(M), Vice President, Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Islamabad has inaugurated a grid station in DHA Phase-II. Addressing the august gathering on the occasion, General Asif Ali appreciated the sincere efforts of DHA management and other associates in the timely completion of the project for resolving the electricity problems of DHA residents.[…]
THE government will demolish encroachments around 124 historical buildings in the provincial capital, the Lahore district coordination officer said on Friday.
LAHORE: The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) and the Communication and Works Department have resumed the road-widening project along the Canal and are uprooting dozens of trees near Thokar Niaz Baig.
Lahore Bachao Tehrik has flayed a move of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) to commercialise 58 more streets and roads in the provincial capital.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has expressed concern over the poor performance by government colleges in the Punjab University’s BA/BSc exams, saying zero percent result in the exam by some government colleges was shocking.
Karachi: Defence Housing Authority has established a new wing ‘DHA Services’ to provide customized domestic services to the community at their doorsteps, under a single window operation. DHA Services will provide a variety of services to the DHA/Clifton residents and the corporate sector.
THE Lahore District Assembly unanimously passed a surplus budget of Rs 14.82 billion for 2009-10 on Thursday. District Nazim Mian Amer Mehmood presented the budget in which the total estimated income of the City District Government Lahore (CDGL) was Rs 14.824 billion against the total expenditure of Rs 14.351 billion.
A group representing housewives residents of Defence Housing Authority (DHA) has extended support to the newly-imposed refurbishment charges imposed by the housing authority for constructing storm water drain system in the area.
The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) has doubled the entry fee for adults for its Zamzama Park in DHA Phase-V with the aim to further develop the park.
Karachi: A prize distribution ceremony was held at the end of grand Sports Gala organized by Defence Authority Club at the Club’s lush green lawn here today. Administrator DHA Brig Khalid Tirmizi was the chief guest of the function.
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday reiterated his party full support for the people of Balochistan and vowed to make all possible efforts to remove their sense of deprivation. Talking to a delegation of PML-Quaid (PML-Q) leaders and parliamentarians from Balochistan at his Raiwind residence, Nawaz said, The PML-N is determined[…]
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Tuesday took suo motu notice of alleged occupation of private land by the Punjab highway and works departments for construction of road along with BRB canal. The CJ observed every citizen had the right to retain the ownership of his property, and that[…]
LAHORE: As many as 3,220 illegal encroachments surround 109 historical sites and buildings in the city, a report compiled by the Archaeology Department says.
THE Lahore High Court has been moved through a writ petition against installation of cellular companies towers in residential areas.
Lahore: LDA Director General Omer Rasool has urged the people of Lahore for responding to the questionnaire published by the LDA for finalising policy regarding commercial activities on 58 major roads. In a statement issued here on Saturday, he said that opinion of the general public was vital for planning development of Lahore in accordance[…]
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif directed the authorities on Friday to employ all available resources to complete the land record computerisation project without further delay. Addressing a meeting to review the ‘Land Record Management and Information System Project’ aimed at computerising revenue records of the province, Shahbaz said that feasible recommendations on the project[…]
KARACHI: While it is more than a year since the deadline of June 2008 for transfer of around 584 acres land to Gwadar Port Authority (GPA) has passed, the government has not yet been able to convince the Ministry of Defence and Pakistan Navy (PN) to vacate the said land at East Bay, where as[…]
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif directed the authorities on Friday to employ all available resources to complete the land record computerisation project without further delay. Addressing a meeting to review the ‘Land Record Management and Information System Project’ aimed at computerising revenue records of the province, Shahbaz said that feasible recommendations on the project[…]
Karachi: Mr Askari Taqvi, Minister of Environment Sindh and Capt Akhlaq Hussain Abidi, former MNA visited DHA’s Main Office here today. They later held a meeting with Administrator DHA Brig Khalid Tirmizi to discuss the elusive issue of refurbishment charges levied by DHA.
