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ISLAMABAD (February 11, 2011) : The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is planning to launch municipal bonds and initiate a number of joint venturers with private sectors aimed at generating regular income and putting the financial matters of the civic body on strong footings, Chairman Imtiaz Inayat Elahi said on Thursday.
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.
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.
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[…]
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: 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.
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[…]
LAHORE – Relaxation in the import of used cars is being fully abused by the auto dealers in connivance with the customs department, as heavy shipments of hundreds of 10-year-old cars have reached the port, TheNation learnt on Saturday.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Railways and the Pakistan Railways Advisory and Consultancy Services (PRACS) on Monday decided to operate special safari trains in Khewra, Kalabagh and Changa Manga besides other places in connection with the 150th anniversary of the corporation.
ISLAMABAD: NESPAK, a public sector engineering services and consultancy organisation, has made record progress during 2009/10 by acquiring projects worth Rs10.16 billion showing an increase of more than 56 percent, a statement said on Monday.
ISLAMABAD: The project to construct new lodges’ for parliamentarians has been referred to the Joint Standing Committee of the Parliament on House and Library. The decision was taken in a meeting of the committees in Islamabad on Tuesday.
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority(CDA) has decided to give a seven-day deadline to land encroachers for vacating the encroached lands of the civic authority.
Valuables worth Rs 20m recovered Mastermind also arrested KARACHI: The Darakshan police on Tuesday apprehended two domestic runaway maids, who had stolen valuables worth Rs 20 million from the residence of a relative of the Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza. The crime had taken place a week ago, but the untiring efforts of the police[…]
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) seems serious in chalking out a strategy to get thousands of acres of acquired land released from the adverse possession and go about developing the city with an improved pace.
RAWALPINDI, Jan 31: Waleed Aman, the marketing manager of Bahria Town and one of the accused in the car racing case, on Monday moved the Lahore High Court (LHC) for removing the charge of murder from the case registered with Rawat police.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) Board on Tuesday approved widely publicising its intentions to take over the land the CDA had acquired back in 1960s for developing the federal capital in line with the directions issued by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) has finalised the proposal to open new sectors in capital and decided to announce two residential sectors in every fiscal year.
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) union’s active bargain agents (CBA) has given a seven days ultimatum to management of the CDA to resolve their issues and demands otherwise it will arrange protest and start a campaign against the management. CBA General Secretary Choudhry Yasin said while addressing a gathering that CDA had been facing financial[…]
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry is reluctant to issue red warrants for the arrest of Atif Sheikh, the organiser of the Bahria Town car race that claimed five lives on December 5. This was stated by Advocate General of Punjab Khawaja Haris on Friday during the hearing of the case in the Supreme Court.
