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LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) in Punjab is scheduled to take action against real estate tycoon and Bahria Town chairman Malik Muhammad Riaz, his son Ahmed Ali Riaz Malik, his general manager and eight others in a criminal case involving property measuring 1,401 kanals in Rawalpindi.
ISLAMABAD: The Bahria Town car race debacle took a new turn on Monday when the Supreme Court was told that Regional Police Officer Rawalpindi, Hamid Mukhtar Gondal, was the main obstacle in arresting the accused.
ISLAMABAD, Jan 18: ANP MNA Bushra Gohar lodged a complaint with the Secretariat police station on Tuesday against an unidentified person who was sending her threatening SMS and making miss calls.
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) evacuated eight kanals of land worth of Rs 480 million located on main Murree Road after a two hours operation against encroachers on Tuesday. Enforcement department of the CDA had received a complaint that Sheikh Khurshid had allegedly occupied eight kanals of land on main Murree Road near Malpur. It[…]
Test filling of raised dam up to 1,230 feet this year LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has paid the remaining sum of Rs 3 billion to the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government for the compensation of built-up property belonging to the affectees of the Mangla Dam raising project.
Former nazim says plots meant for parks occupied by political parties ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Karachi city government to recover plots and parks occupied illegally by the land mafia and political parties by February 2.
Interior minister says taxes may stay unchanged this year Sees debt restructuring in lieu of IMF loan tranche ABU DHABI: Pakistan may not be able to implement tax reforms needed this year to ensure funds from an emergency IMF loan, its Interior Minister said on Tuesday, and is alternatively seeking foreign help in restructuring its[…]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 18: Police on Tuesday told the Supreme Court (SC) that the names of its inspector general of police (IGP) and property tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain were included in a case of arresting Malik Tabarak Bari in 2009.
ISLAMABAD, Jan 18: Two public hospitals – Polyclinic and Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) – are vying for setting up their medical colleges in the capital, Dawn has learnt.
ISLAMABAD, Jan 18: The cash-starved government is spending Rs3 billion not to mitigate suffering of the poor but to provide luxurious accommodation facilities to lawmakers.
KARACHI: Private sector has improved its borrowing record in the first half of the current fiscal but the banks massive investment in treasury bills showed that the advances were much below the requirement of the market.
LAHORE – The National Water Engineering, the wastewater treatment plants’ technology provider in Pakistan, has announced that through the UN Kyoto Protocol Act, the company has lined up foreign environmental investment companies who are willing to invest $ 2 billion to develop small to mega wastewater treatment plants in Pakistan.
LAHORE – Malaysia will make investment in monorail project to the tune of $1.1 billion in order to provide modernised transport facilities to Lahorites. About 22 km long track will be laid on Ferozepur Road in the first phase. Internationally acclaimed Malaysian company Scomi International will execute the project whereas Project Support Asia will provide[…]
ISLAMABAD: Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday decided to write a letter to Prime Minister (PM) Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani seeking strict action against the encroachers who grabbed lands worth billions of rupees in Islamabad as Capital Development Authority (CDA) failed to recover the lands from the occupants.
ISLAMABAD: Most of as many as 1500 multistoried buildings and plazas in the federal capital do not have any fire fighting system and the owners of buildings do not bother about managing some emergency exit.
ISLAMABAD: CDA spokesman Ramzan Sajid told Daily Times that CDA has decided to introduce Fire Safety Regulations. He said the fire audit was going on and once it completed, the problem of securing buildings from fire emergencies would be solved. He said at the moment no one could build a new building without fire fighting[…]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday issued notices for January 21 to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh, Regional Police Officer (RPO) Hyderabad, former Taluka Nazim Tando Allahyar Haji Khair Muhammad Khokhar, Aftab Ahmad Khokhar, Aijaz Khokhar, District Police Officer (DPO) Tando Allahyar and other police officials on a petition filed by[…]
HYDERABAD, Jan 17: Builders are warned against delay in handing over projects to allottees or making alterations in building specification. Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Justice ® Syed Deedar Husain Shah said that any negligence in this regard would be liable to prosecution under the law.
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: A fire caused huge damage to the top floor of a commercial building at Jinnah Avenue, Blue Area, which housed offices of private companies, witnesses said.
LAHORE – Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Director General (DG) Umer Rasul on Friday transferred and posted a number of officers. Akbar Nakai, director coordination & implementation has been transferred and posted as LDA Secretary seven other sponsors relieving Socrat Aman Rana, Director DG’s Headquarter of additional charge of the said post.
ISLAMABAD: The weekly bazaars in the capital under the umbrella of Capital development Authority (CDA) are seem unable to facilitate customers, as prices of edible items continue to soar. Such inabilities and dereliction to control prices and quality are giving bad name to the repute of Authority.
Islamabad: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has advised the citizen of twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi to utilize water carefully as supply from Khanpur Dam through Left Bank Canal source would remain suspended from January 17 to 23.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court action against the grabbers of state land has led to the disclosure that state land worth around Rs1,000 billion in Islamabad is either in the occupation of powerful Qabza groups or the Capital Development Authority (CDA) is deliberately avoiding to retake its possession.
Land grabbing has become endemic in the federal capital due to the ostrich-like attitude adopted by the city managers. One of the main reasons making the Capital Development Authority a silent spectator to the menace is that land grabbers are mostly influential people, politicians and senior retired military officials against whom the civic body cannot[…]
RAWALPINDI: The residents of a cooperative housing society have gone to court against paying a two per cent tax that the government wants to apply on all property deals. The employees and residents of the Airport Cooperative Housing Society in Rawalpindi filed a writ petition in the Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi to challenge the orders[…]
