KARACHI: After a prolonged recession in the real estate market, commercial projects seem to be the first to witness some sunshine as prices of retail outlets have more than doubled over the past year – mainly on the back of a surge in demand. Karachi alone has witnessed the opening of five shopping malls over[…]

LARKANA: It appears that the Taluka Municipal Administration may have lost one hundred years of the city’s property records, revealed sources unwilling to be named. All records for Sachal Colony, Sheikh Zaid Colony and the Old Bus Stand area as well as for 1,000 other plots have been lost, paving the way for illegal constructions,[…]

QUETTA – Speaker Balochistan Assembly, Muhammad Aslam Bhootani has revealed that Prime Minister House is exerting pressure on Balochistan government to sell land to Arab Sheikhs in his constituency in district Lasbela near coastal highway. He warned that people of Balochistan would resist if the proposed land was sold to Arab Sheikhs. Addressing a Press[…]

KARACHI: The police on Saturday arrested Chairman National Highway Authority (NHA) Chaudhry Altaf, and two other senior officials after Additional District and Session Judge, West, Gulshan Ara Chandio rejected the interim Challan submitted by the investigation officer into the Shershah bridge collapse case, and ordered the arrest of the officials. However, former chairman NHA, Major[…]

President briefed on progress of Zulfikarabad city project Zardari directs launch of robust promotional campaign by holding road shows abroad KARACHI: Site for the new proposed city Zulfikarabad in Thatta district has been identified and management consultants of the project will be appointed next month followed by inviting Expressions of Interest (EOI) from international firms[…]

Karachi: With a rapidly increasing number of vehicles plying the roads and the city spreading in all directions, the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has planned to build more flyovers for easing traffic flow.

Administrator Karachi Fazlur Rehman on Monday approved the construction of flyovers on three roundabouts in the city. Rehman directed the city government’s Works & Services Department to allocate funds for the construction of a flyover each at Shahra-e-Pakistan (near Water Pump), SITE (near Habib Bank Chowrangi) and Dr. Ziauddin Road (near Shaheen Complex) in the[…]

Karachi: Hundreds of acres of land has been occupied by the Pakistan Army for developing a new cantonment area in Karachi, it was stated in the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday.