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KARACHI – The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) has been threatening one of its residents to remove the mobile phone tower installed by a cellular company on the roof of his house, and demanding a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) of the neighbourhood, which is against legal practices. It is to be noted that the DHA has been[…]
ISLAMABAD (March 23, 2011) : The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has not received any go-ahead for initiation of the work on ‘Safe City Islamabad’ Project, informed sources in the CDA revealed to Business Recorder on Tuesday. Safe City Islamabad is a security enhancement project with an estimated cost of Rs 12.9 billion ($151.2 million) under[…]
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought replies from respondents on a petition challenging proposed conversion of recreational park at the Lahore Press Club Journalist Housing Scheme, Harbanspura, into a residential area by way of carving out of it plots for as many as 295 newly inducted members of the[…]
LAHORE: Protests and wrangles between traders and the district government are becoming routine during the City District Government Lahore (CDGL) and with Lahore Development Authority (LDA) anti-encroachment drive. Traders are also claiming that the drive is biased and certain segments are being targeted more heavily. Protests have been observed in several towns during the anti-encroachment[…]
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan has slapped Rs10 million in penalties on the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) for violating the anti-trust law on Tuesday after finding out that the Authority had an exclusive deal with a private telecom service provider. Anti-trust watchdog passed an order against DHA and Wateen Telecom after it established that[…]
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza has asked the government to allow Hamid Saeed Kazmi, the former minister for religious affairs, to attend the joint session of parliament on Tuesday and subsequent sittings of the lower house.
Apartment rents in some of Dubai’s most popular areas have fallen by about 30% in the last 12 months but villa rents are largely stable, it has been revealed. The latest figures from the emirate’s Real Estate Regulatory Agency show that apartment rents in Dubai Marina, Palm Jumeirah, Discovery Gardens, and Jumeirah Beach Residences have[…]
RAWALPINDI, March 21: As the World Day for Water is being observed today (Tuesday), availability of drinking water in the Potohar region, including Rawalpindi and Islamabad, has gone down by 100 to 210 feet in the last 30 years.
ISLAMABAD, Mar 22 (APP): Residents of capital city demanded of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to upgrade and repair the playgrounds of the city.Several playgrounds are in dilapidated condition due to lukewarm attitude of the concerned authorities.Ahmed Ali, a resident of Sector G-7 Islamabad said that most of the playground and parks need repairing and[…]
LAHORE: Development work on some of the city’s main roads means that most commuters are liable to spend their summer caught in traffic jams. The Punjab government has started major road repairs and construction of new underpasses and a flyover along several main roads in the city. Multan Road has been under construction for more[…]
All rates are in Rupee Lacs. Given rates are for average locations plots, homes, commercials excluding average below and average above locations in Bahria Town Lahore. Bahria Town Lahore Commercial Plots Rates Bahria Town Lahore Safari Villas 4 Marla Commercial Plots Rates 19 to 22 Bahria Town Lahore Safari Villas 8 Marla Commercial Plots Rates[…]
Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that low-cost housing scheme, Aashiyana Housing Scheme, will be the first residential scheme where low-income people and laborers will have the same basic facilities as are available to the elite, and that the scheme will be comparable with the best housing schemes of the country.
LAHORE, March 15: Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday observed that those at the helm of affairs of the Lahore Development Authority will have to face criminal cases if Liberty Park and Ride Shopping Plaza was found to be constructed on the land reserved for a recreational park.
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.
LAHORE – Bhogiwal Road, an important artery of Northern Lahore falling in the NA-123 constituency, a citadel of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has been under construction for the last two years making residents’ life miserable. Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif laid the foundation stone of the road on September 9, 2008, but failed to follow[…]
ISLAMABAD, March 20 (APP): The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is planning to run 30 buses on Faizabad-Islamabad route for ensuring cheap and respectable travelling facility to commuters shuttling between the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.“The service will soon be launched and a bus stand is being established at Faizabad – the main junction between[…]
Dubai’s economy is projected to rebound by three to five per cent in real terms this year on the back of stronger performance in the tourism, trade and other sectors, a senior businessman from the emirate was reported on Sunday as saying.
LAHORE: The exact location and sponsorship of the DHA City-EME, a new housing project, launched on June 13 remain a mystery. The issue came to the limelight when after a rigorous advertising campaign in local media, the DHA City officials failed to come up with satisfactory answers to queries about the location of the housing[…]
ISLAMABAD, March 18: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat on Friday directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to reclaim land in Sector G-12 Islamabad and Sector F-12 Islamabad. “CDA should check increasing illegal occupation of land in both the sectors,” said the chairman of the committee Dewan Ashiq Hussain.
ISLAMABAD – Interior Minister Rehman Malik is still into hot waters as Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) probing Haj scam for the second time has issued notices to 427 politicians and journalists who performed free Haj during the years 2009 and 2010 on his invitation.
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has issued notice to a real estate tycoon, the election commission and interior ministry officials seeking their comment on a petition challenging the issuance of Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICS) illegally to a private housing society employees.
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is reviewing an agreement it had signed with a private construction firm to develop a new residential sector in the foothills of Margalla by violating its own land-sharing formula applied in the recently-acquired sectors, sources in the civic body told Dawn on Wednesday.
