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LAHORE: The Punjab government’s notification calling for the closure of ‘illegally established’ private schools on 58 roads of the city has been dubbed a conspiracy against education by the All Pakistan Private Schools Management Association (APPSMA).
ISLAMABAD: Member National Assembly Hamid Yar Hiraj, respondent in the case of a disputed land in diplomatic enclave, surrendered his right to the plot on Thursday. Islamabad High Court (IHC) disposed off the case after validating the petitioner’s concerns.
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) environment team caught the police officials while stealing wood after cutting trees at 6th Avenue but the officials rather than of being ashamed, arrested the CDA officials and shifted them to Secretariat Police Station and threatened them to declare terrorists.
Proposal for increment in transfer fee of LDA Housing Schemes was rejected.
AFTER suspending two senior officials for not clearing pending complaints, the Lahore Development Authority director general on Wednesday warned all the officers of strict action in case all the pending complaints were not cleared within the next three days.
A new church having community centre and other allied facilities will be constructed in Sector G-8/1 Islamabad as the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has allotted a plot measuring 1899 square yards on the request of Full Gospel Assembly Church for it.
LAHORE: The whole Walled City is at risk of fire disaster because the area is full of underground caverns packed with chemicals and other dangerous raw materials, the Ravi Town municipal officer (TMO) has warned.
ISLAMABAD (February 09, 2011) : Following the Supreme Court orders, Capital Development Authority (CDA) has evolved a strategy to evacuate about 20,000 acres of land being illegally occupied in different areas of the capital.
CDA directed to start luxurious suites’ construction Parliamentary committee constitutes five-member body to monitor progress and ensure transparent execution of project ISLAMABAD: Brushing aside massive resistance from the opposition party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), joint parliamentary committee for Housing and Library on Tuesday directed Capital Development Authority (CDA) to start phase-wise construction of luxurious suites[…]
At least three people lost their lives and 35 were injured after a fire that started in a building in the Shah Alam Market on Monday morning spread to adjoining structures. Three plazas and a mosque were razed to the ground while four multi-storey buildings, including residential apartments, were damaged in the fire that started[…]
As was anticipated, the first move by the enforcement directorate of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to remove illegal encroachments in line with the directions issued by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, was instantly confronted by the illegal occupants who turned violent and beat up the CDA staff[…]
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Sunday demolished houses and walls in Saidpur Village built on encroached land in a campaign against encroachers for the vacation of the land in capital.
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[…]
Islamabad—Believe it or not, the cost of construction of Expressway on East Bay of Gwadar Port has increased by almost close to 100 percent from Rs 3.763 billion to Rs 6.274 billion on the pretext that the scope of the project has increased which is factually widened by 37 percent, Pakistan Observer has learnt reliably.
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly adopted a multibillion scam report of its [NA] special committee on Employees Cooperative Housing Society (NAECHS), in which the committee has identified five employees of the Lower House and Islamabad administration.
Apartment property prices in Dubai fell significantly in November in all categories apart from those in the 51 to 100 square meter category, the latest figures show. Prices rose marginally in this sector month on month, the data from REIDIN, the leading real estate information company covering emerging economies, shows. It is based on transaction[…]
(DUBAI, UAE) — The big names are feeling the brunt of the financial crisis in Dubai even though some parts of the real estate industry seem to be doing better. This week Donald Trump and Tiger Woods learned that their signature projects were being cancelled.
LAHORE: Model Town Society members are pressing the Town Municipal Administration to select a new location for the area’s Sunday Bazaar so they can push ahead with a plan to boost local commercial activities, The Express Tribune has learnt.
KARACHI: Almost half of Pakistan’s population will be living in urban areas with 17 cities having more than one million population by the year 2030. This was disclosed at the roundtable conference on Urban Development and Economic Growth. The conference was organised by the Planning Commission to launch the task force report on urban development[…]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 4: The National Assembly on Friday adopted a report of a house body holding 11 individuals, including government officials and private realtors, responsible for financial irregularities and embezzlement in the National Assembly Employees Cooperative Housing Society (NAECHS) scam.
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) Public Relations Director Asim Khichi told Daily Times that he could not say anything about CDA’s division into two parts after implementation of the proposal. He said CDA revenue generation capacity would not increase, as land and population of the city would remain same if the decision to bifurcate Islamabad[…]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has started planning to declare Islamabad a division and bifurcate it into two districts, as it has demanded details of additional posts from different departments of the federal capital to finalise the proposal, sources in Ministry of Interior told Daily Times on Friday.
DAWN has done a wonderful job by taking us back to “50 years ago today” (Jan 26), reproducing important events and happenings of the past. On Jan 26, 1960, the significant event was the inauguration by the then finance minister of a 10,500-foot-long jet runaway of Karachi International Airport, completed much ahead of schedule, which[…]
WASHINGTON, Feb 5: The Federal Reserve doesn’t see losses from failed commercial real estate loans as a threat to big financial institutions, although weakness in the commercial market will continue to dampen economic growth, an official said.
KARACHI, Feb 5: The House Building Finance Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Malir Development Authority for providing housing finance to MDA customers of the affordable housing project.
