The Board of Investment (BoI) EDG Raizul Haq Tuesday visited the Centaurus Project at Islamabad being developed under a joint venture between Saudi and Pakistani Group where construction is in full swing.

ISLAMABAD: The residents of sectors G-9, F-10, I-9, I-8 and G-8 have complained that most of houses in their areas are being converted fast into small hotels and rest houses. Voicing concern over commercial use of residential quarters, they urged the authorities concerned to redress their grievances.

ISLAMABAD: The government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the construction of 30,000 houses in Lahore and Faisalabad on Thursday. The proposed low-cost housing project is a joint venture between the Pakistan Housing Authority and M/S Shaukat Saleem. The houses will be built at the Defence and Bedian roads, Lahore and the Sargodha[…]

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) missed yet another deadline to open Faisal Avenue underpass at Citibank Chowk. Despite clear-cut directives from CDA Chairman Kamran Lashari, the Engineering wing of the authority failed to implement orders to open the underpass by September 15. Lashari in his directives, while extending deadline, had asked the construction firm to[…]

Like many other projects, including the much-trumpeted Ring Roads, the plan to build Complex and Business Centre at the site of old Wasa and RDA office has also been reportedly dropped.

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will die an unsung death by the middle of the next month as its funds have dried up and no major political party is interested in reviving it.

Capital Development Authority (CDA) seems reluctant to take action against cell phone towers on rooftops, posing threat to human lives or installed without prior permission.

ISLAMABAD: The NWFP authorities on Saturday successfully completed their operation to get 6,049 kanals of the government land vacated in Dera Ismail Khan from the illegal possession of close associates of Maulana Fazlur Rehman and ex-chief minister NWFP Akram Khan Durrani.

ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to install musical fountains at Rawal Lake View Park, sources said. They said the fountains having height of 50 meters would be imported from Europe and run by computers. They said musical tunes would open and close the fountains and change colour of watercourse of the lake. They[…]

ISLAMABAD: The government is working on a proposal to introduce a dollar-based national saving scheme instrument for expatriates to attract dollars in the country, a senior government official told The News.