Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the forthcoming Overseas Pakistanis Investment Conference (OPIC) being held in Islamabad should effectively be used to galvanize maximum number of overseas Pakistanis to invest in Pakistan.

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) will construct three new sectors in the capital and has directed the Islamabad chief commissioner to close registries and transfers of land in E-13, D-13 and F-13 sectors after October 30. Sources said the CDA had already started implementing steps to stop trade of land in the new sectors. The[…]

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has chalked out a Rs 350 million plan to construct ten new sectors in Islamabad, and has approved its PC-1 titled Land Acquisition Project. According to sources, the CDA would recruit 30 Patwaris, 4 Naib Tehsildars, various computer operators and other staff, and purchase seven new vehicles for the project.[…]

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) Thursday issued provisional allotment letters of residential plots to 416 officers of authority at sector I-8.

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is expanding the limits of Diplomatic Enclave up to the Bari Imam shrine to accommodate the offices of some 35 more foreign missions presently operating in different residential areas of the capital.

The Planning Commission (PC) has expressed concern over the unavailability of the identified areas for the Karachi Light Rail Mass Transit System and has directed the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) to redesign their land use plan in collaboration with the City District Government of Karachi (CDGK).

Town planners are regularly announcing to open up 10 new residential sectors in the federal capital, whereas they have not yet initiated fully the development work in the already planned five sectors for which the land was acquired several years ago.

The Islamabad District Magistrate president has banned, under section 144, any kind of construction and the carrying of construction material in Sectors G-14/1, G-14/2 and G-14/3. The ban has come into immediate effect and will remain in force for two months.

The Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF) would soon launch a new housing scheme to construct 15,000 houses for lower grade employees, Secretary Housing and Works Abdul Rauf Chaudhry said here on Tuesday.

Housing societies located near a site set for the new Islamabad International Airport would not be included in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), Brig Nusratullah, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) member planning, said on Wednesday.