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The Model Town Society (MTS) has come close to finalising a deal with a foreign company for setting up a gas-generated power plant in the society, MTS president Col ® Tahir Hussain Kardar told Daily Times on Saturday.
District Nazim Mian Aamer Mehmood has said that the development works of Phase I Block-H of Sabzazar Colony and provision of basic infrastructure will soon be started with the huge amount of Rs 70 million. He was talking to the nazims and councillors of various union councils in a meeting held at Distric Nazim House[…]
Chief Minister (CM) Pervaiz Elahi on Sunday inaugurated the 8.7-kilometre long stretch of the Ring Road from Niazi Chowk to Mehmood Booti. The CM said the first phase had been constructed at a cost of Rs 3 billion. He said Rs 80 billion would be spent on the entire project.
President Pervez Musharraf has declared that the Sundar Industrial Estate is of highest global standard and an example of industrial vision of the government, which it aims to replicate in other provinces of the country.
LAHORE: The Defence Housing Authority formally started the development of Phase VI and VII on Friday. Pakistan Army’s engineer-in-chief, Lieutenant General Shahid Niaz was the chief guest on the occasion.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) does things seemingly without extensive planning and regrets them later – having made what is a marvellous 7th Avenue, it has now realised that pedestrians have been ignored.
Constituted to finalise names of 500 eligible employees from grade 14 to grade 16 for the allotment of residential plots in Islamabad, a Capital Development Authority committee will submit its report to chairman Kamran Lashari today (Tuesday) for mandatory approval. Plots will be allotted through secret balloting likely to take place next week, according to[…]
The district government is planning to build the country”s largest scientific slaughterhouse in Lahore and is likely to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Allama Iqbal Town administration in this regard by the end of this week, officials told Daily Times on Wednesday.
The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has started acquiring two pieces of land covering an area of 50,000 and 25,000 kanals on the Raiwind and Ferozepur roads to establish two new residential colonies.
The government of Sindh has leased out 12,700 acres of land on the Super Highway to the Ministry of Defence for the creation of Phase IX of Defence Housing Authority (DHA).
While the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has prepared 75 percent of the Karachi Master Plan 2020, it has been waiting for input from the other authorities and stakeholders in the city without which the task will not be completed, Daily Times has learnt.
A hope has arisen for hundreds of people allotted plots in Sector E-12 after 23 years as the Capital Development Authority has succeeded in resolving the issue of getting possession of land.
The development work on Golden Palms, a mega real estate project of Hashoo Group in Gwadar, would be completed by the end of next calendar year. Chairman Hashoo Group, Sadruddin Hashwani revealed this while highlighting his group”s role in the development of Gwadar – the future city of Pakistan, at a press conference held here[…]
Senator Babar Khan Ghauri told the Senate on Thursday that Gwadar Port was almost complete and President General Pervez Musharraf would inaugurate it on March 23.
A nine-member bench of the Supreme Court on Monday summoned a detailed report on the allotment of land in Gwadar to ministers, politicians and bureaucrats, and directed the Balochistan advocate general to cancel the allotments and return the land to the provincial government.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has in principal approved the handing over of the Gwadar Port operations to Singapore Port Authority. The decision has been made on the recommendation of Gwadar Port Implementation Authority (GPIA) and the special committee constituted to negotiate the agreement for operations of Gwadar Port.
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Thursday granted 40-year tax exemptions to the proposed operators of Gwadar port, making it a virtual tax-free port to the extent of its development and operations.
The UAE”s DP World has dropped a bid to manage Gwadar port due to commercial reasons, a local newspaper said on Friday. “We have looked carefully at this opportunity and have decided not to pursue it,” Gulf News quoted a Dubai Ports World official as saying.
The government has decided to give the management control of the Gwadar deep-sea port to the Singapore port operator PSA International, Federal Ports and Shipping Minister Babar Ghauri said on Friday. Ghauri told reporters that Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz had approved awarding the contract to PSA and the company would take charge of the port[…]
The Chinese petroleum industry has indicated an interest in shifting its excess capacity to Gwadar, bringing in estimated investment of $13 billion, a senior government official told Daily Times on Wednesday.
Emaar Pakistan has rolled out its first master-planned community in Pakistan, the Canyon Views, a statement issued here on Friday said. A mixed-use development integrating residential, commercial, leisure and retail components, Canyon Views is located within the DHAI Phase 2 extension in Islamabad, the capital city.
The government will nominate a body for operating the Gwadar Deep Sea Port this week, an official source disclosed. Three international companies – the Dubai Port World, Hutchision Port Holding of Hong Kong and PSA International, Singapore – are competing for the operating contract.
The Gwadar Port should be connected with the rest of the country through rail link. This scheme should be implemented prior to the road links in and around the new port city whose first phase is expected to be inaugurated in December, says a study.
The Senate was informed on Wednesday that Gwadar Port would be operational by Dec 30, 2006. During the question hour, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Kamil Ali Agha said that 90 per cent work on the first phase of the port had been completed.
Located at the entrance of the Gulf and about 650-km from Karachi, Gwadar has immense Geo-strategic significance on many accounts. The continued unstable regional environment in the Gulf in particular as a result of the Iran/Iraq war, the Gulf war and the emergence of the new Central Asian States has added to this importance.
