Action against land grabbers: SC gives spine to CDA
ISLAMABAD, Jan 14: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Capital Development Authority to retake the 20,000 acres of land the CDA says is under illegal occupation.
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 14: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Capital Development Authority to retake the 20,000 acres of land the CDA says is under illegal occupation.
LAHORE, Jan 15: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Saturday increasing encroachments in the city had made people’s lives miserable and directed the authorities to carry out a vigorous operation to clear the city of illegal commercial establishments, says a handout.
ISLAMABAD: The residents of Sectors G-6 and G-7 are facing shortage of water in the federal capital. The residents talking to APP claimed that they were hiring water tanks to fulfill their needs of water. They said the Capital Development Authority (CDA) showed no response to their complaints. They said the CDA should ensure provision[…]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: More than 25 years on the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has failed to take possession of land meant for G-12, a residential sector proposed for the people with modest means of earning.
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: Bracing themselves for implementing the Supreme Court (SC) order to retrieve state land from encroachers, the city managers say they have prepared a plan to get back the 20,000 acres.
ISLAMABAD (APP) – The government has initiated work on various long and short-term housing projects to overcome housing shortage in the country. An official of the Ministry of Housing and Works told this news agency that soon after coming to power, the Pakistan Peoples Party government announced construction of one million houses to cope with[…]
KARACHI: As the Reko Diq case unfolds in the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the media, there is a tangible fear that the short-sightedness of powers that be will squander an opportunity that could spell an economic turnaround for the country.
QUETTA: Oman has agreed to release a grant of $44 million it had announced 10 years ago for launching development projects in Balochistan, including the construction of an international airport in Gwadar.
KARACHI, Jan 14: Ten of the 54 falcons caught by the Coast Guards near Jiwani late on Thursday were set free near Gwadar, some 600 kilometres from here, on Friday evening, a Balochistan wildlife official told Dawn, adding that one falcon had died.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was informed on Friday that 80 kanals of land grabbed by the brothers of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Leader of the House in Senate Syed Nayyar Hussain Bukhari at Bani Gala has been evacuated.
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The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) has once again postponed collection of its controversial refurbishment charges from its residents for three months.
RAWALPINDI: Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) on Thursday arrested Rawalpindi drag-car race killings case accused Adil Naeem from Benazir International Airport when he was fleeing abroad.
Sino-Indian rivalry in the Indian Ocean and India’s naval cooperation with the US draw the world’s attention. But quietly, out of sight, a contest has been building in the Arabian Sea centred between two ports, one based in Pakistan and the other in Iran.
Pak-China relationship is an example of unprecedented and time-tested friendship. In the bi-lateral relationship of nations, there have been very less occasions once such a long-standing friendship has continued without having an iota of misunderstanding for so long.
ISLAMABAD: The case of a ‘controversial’ sale of land in the diplomatic enclave was referred to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) by the Supreme Court on Thursday. The controversy pertained to an allotment of a plot by Capital Development Authority (CDA) to MNA Hamid Yar Hiraj. It was earlier challenged by a principal of a[…]
ISLAMABAD: A delegation headed by Ambassador of Thailand HE Marut Jitpatima along with Premchai Karnasuta, President BMA Capital and other Thai officials visited Board of Investment (BoI) on Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD: Majority of Pakistanis who never paid a single penny as taxes throughout their life are highly qualified, live in the most expensive locations like the DHAs in Karachi and Lahore, have their accounts in foreign banks and make frequent travelling abroad, disclosed a study.
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Talking to journalists the other day, the Balochistan Chief Minister, Nawab Aslam Raisani, made a strong plea for using the Gwadar Port for Afghan Transit Trade. He said that he had asked the ‘relevant authorities’ to supply fuel to the Nato forces in Afghanistan through this port, and that the provincial government is ready to[…]
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QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court (BHC) asked the provincial government on Friday to explain how it can lease hundreds of acres of land to UAE nationals for bird hunting and restrained it from taking any further steps in this regard.
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is gearing up to start a double-decker tourist bus for sites around Islamabad, particularly the Margalla Hills. Right now people need to either rely on their own cars or vans as there is no public transport for the Margalla Hills in particular. This becomes quite expensive for tourists. For[…]