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ISLAMABAD: The capital is likely to face acute water shortage in the future, as the Ghazi Barotha Water Supply Project (GBWSP) of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) is still pending and so is the replacement of decade old water supply systems.
The wishes of those in the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to get at least one side of the Faisal Avenue-Jinnah Avenue flyover to be opened by mid-February, 2009, are most unlikely to materialise, as the contractors, engaged for the job have clearly expressed their inability to come up to the expectations of the authority.
The Islamabad Expressway continues to be the center of attention for all wrong reasons, just over a week after its formal opening by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani.
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) will start work on establishing an economic zone in Rawalpindi soon to speed up economic activities in the region, said RDA Director General (DG) Makeen Shahbaz on Saturday. He was talking to the business community during his visit to Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) offices here.
ISLAMABAD: The special committee of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has expressed its deep concern at a massive misappropriation of Rs 600 million in ministry of defence.
Islamabad High Court’s Justice Muhammad Munir Paracha Wednesday issued a notice to the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for failing to protect natural watercourses in Sector E-11.
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) will construct three pedestrian bridges on Islamabad Expressway to facilitate the people in crossing the road. According to a press statement issued on Wednesday, the decision was taken in a meeting presided over by CDA Chairman Tariq Mehmood Khan. CDA member engineering, director general works and other senior officials[…]
ISLAMABAD: Keeping in view the tight financial situation, Planning Commission has prepared a summary with 20 percent cut in Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the year 2008-09, sources told Daily Times here on Wednesday.
Islamabad High Court’s Justice Muhammad Munir Paracha Wednesday issued a notice to the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for failing to protect natural watercourses in Sector E-11.
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has released Rs 880 million from his discretionary funds to all 16 teaching hospitals of the province, including three of Rawalpindi, to provide better medical treatment and free medicines to people. Sources said that Rs 77 million funds had been released collectively to District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital, Holy Family[…]
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday that the payment of a Rs 9 billion loan to a Lahore-based steel mill had culminated in the biggest ever fraud in the country history.
Islamabad: A public library of international standard is being set up in the posh sector of F-10 with a total cost of over Rs1 billion. Director General National Library Chaudhary Muhammad Nazir in a statement informed that Ministry of Education has acquired land from Capital Development Authority (CDA) in Sector F-10 and the price of[…]
Islamabad: The new building code approved by the previous cabinet is in the offing and will be effective forthwith throughout the country including AJK to ensure that future structures are seismic resistant.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will formally inaugurate the Islamabad Expressway today (Tuesday), more than one and a half month after its completion. The Expressway was completed at a cost of Rs 877 million in a record time of eight months, almost four and a half months ahead of schedule. Its expansion from three-lanes-a-side[…]
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to widen Faisal Avenue into six lanes.
Final touches are being given to the launching of computerised birth and death certificate issuance system in every union council of the Islamabad district.
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to install automatic bollards at 30 different points, mostly in the Red Zone, as part of security measures. In the second phase of the project, the CDA would install more bollards in other parts of the city, aiming to solve traffic problems created by erection of concrete blocks[…]
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) Board will decide shortly the fate of the ‘sick’ Faisal Avenue Flyover Project, which has fallen massively behind schedule.
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has directed the Large Taxpayer Units (LTUs) to check non-payment of capital value tax (CVT) on buying and selling of property by housing/development societies. Sources told Business Recorder on Saturday that the FBR has taken the decision during last board-in-council meeting to probe investment and non-payment of CVT[…]
ISLAMABAD: Landowners of sectors H-16 and I-17 have rejected an award package announced by Capital Development Authority (CDA) for acquisition of land and vowed to resist it until reasonable prices were paid to them.
Islamabad: Directorate of Revenue Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to launch a massive drive against property tax defaulters.
ISLAMABAD (January 19 2009): The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has directed the Large Taxpayer Units (LTUs) to check non-payment of capital value tax (CVT) on buying and selling of property by housing/development societies. Sources told Business Recorder on Saturday that the FBR has taken the decision during last board-in-council meeting to probe investment and[…]
Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has decided to fill 35 posts of Grade-1 to 15 on temporary basis, aiming to lessen the shortage of staff, and the Punjab government while approving the RDA recommendations allowed it to make recruitments.
ISLAMABAD: Chief Executive Office of Engineering Development Board (EDB), Asad Elahi said here on Saturday that Mid term plan for entry of the engineering industry in international markets has been formulated.
The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) said on Monday realty sector is showing some signs of improvement as investors disappointed with Dubai downtrend have started shifting capital to Pakistan. Many traders, industrialists, agriculturists and investors have lost their investments in the property slide in the Gulf and Middle East. The bust has relieved many mediocre Pakistanis[…]
