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KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to allot 1,000 acres of land to the families of armed forces personnel who lost their beloved in the war on terror. The decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting. The Board of Revenue (BoR) confirmed to The News on Wednesday that the directives of President[…]
Karachi: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) has expressed its inability to provide water by tankers at subsidised rates or otherwise for the residents of Defence any more, and has asked the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) to arrange water for the residents from its own system. The managing director of the water utility, Misbahuddin[…]
Karachi: The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) has said that development activities on the site of its new project, DHA City Karachi, which is located near the Super Highway, have started and that the DCK site would be operational once the 13 projects under the immediate action plan of the project are completed. DCK’s development strategy[…]
KARACHI: Defence Housing Authority (DHA) launched DHA City Karachi (DCK) at the project’s site on Super Highway amid a graceful groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday. Commander 5 Corps Lt-Gen Muhammad Zaheer-ul-Islam inaugurated the development activities by unveiling the plaque. Speaking on the occasion, he termed the occasion as historic and hailed the services of DHA stating[…]
KARACHI, Feb 22: The Defence Housing Authority may look into the issue of disparity in prices of residential plots offered to ex-servicemen and the general public in its new residential-cum-commercial project, which is being developed on a huge piece of land acquired from the Sindh government in the eastern zone of Karachi along the Super[…]
Karachi, Feb 14: DHA City Karachi (DCK), an upcoming residential cum commercial project on Super Highway after completion of its master plan is all set to graduate from planning to development on ground stage. Tenders for major development works under the immediate development plan have mostly been awarded, mobilization of contractors to the project site[…]
KARACHI – The upcoming residential-cum-commercial project of Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on the Karachi-Hyderabad Superhighway – the DHA City Karachi (DCK) – is all set to graduate from the planning stage into development on ground stage after completion of its master plan. Tenders for major development works under the immediate development plan have mostly been[…]
Karachi: A leading international energy sector firm is likely to acquire management control of the long stalled Defence Cogen Power and Desalination Plant from its current private owners and arrange for funds to ensure its early rehabilitation. A meeting of Defence Housing Authority’s (DHA) Executive Board was informed that technical reports related to the recently[…]
KARACHI: The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) is allotting land in Phase VIII for a graveyard after residents complained that existing cemeteries are almost filled. “I have given orders to my officials to make the land available. I can’t say anything about its location at the moment,” said Brigadier Aamer Raza, the DHA Administrator.
The Defence Housing Authority (DHA Lahore) has said that it had installed 120 modern security cameras at all entry and exit points of the DHA for round-the-clock electronic surveillance of important spots of the posh neighborhood of the city.
KARACHI – Though the Sindh government has been carrying out strict action against the land mafia, at least 300 acres of industrial land are still in the clutches of land grabbers in Hyderabad, adversely affecting the industrialisation of the province’s second largest city, it has been learnt.
HYDERABAD, Jan 30: The administration has advised people not to book or purchase any plot in a housing scheme as its NOC has been cancelled on reports of complaints against its sponsors.
Karachi—Approval has been accorded for the construction of first highrise building in Qasimabad, Hyderabad. This was announced by an official of the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) here on Friday. The Director General SBCA, Manzoor Qadir chaired the meeting in which the plan of the proposed ground plus nine-storey building in Qasimabad, Hyderabad, was presented.[…]
KARACHI: Broker and investor Aqeel Karim Dhedhi is launching a luxury apartment project in Defence Housing Authority (DHA), just weeks after he received a tremendous public response on another housing project. The Arkadians, being built in phase VIII on the beach, will be available for sale by the end of February 2012 when the foundations[…]
* Project worth Rs 650m became operational in July 2009 * With a capacity to accommodate 1,200 vehicles at a time, plaza could not attract over 30 vehicles a day Karachi: With what was being said as a breakthrough to make the roads of Saddar area congestion-free, defunct City District Government Karachi (CDGK) constructed a[…]
KARACHI – The groundbreaking ceremony of the multi-billion rupees mega project, the DHA City Karachi (DCK), would be held next month. The DHA City Karachi would be a modern, well-planned and a complete city that would offer all basic facilities to its inhabitants.
KARACHI: Administrator KMC Muhammad Hussain Syed said that construction and repairing of roads in different areas of the city has started while work on five flyovers and three underpasses would begin after calling of tenders in two weeks carrying an estimated cost of Rs1.6 billion.
Islamabad: Chairman National Highway Authority Syed Muhammad Ali Gardezi presided over meeting of NHA Executive Board today which accorded approval to award of contract of construction of Hyderabad Karachi Motorway (M-9) to Malaysian Construction Company M/s BINAPURI Holding, on BOT basis with concessionaire period of 28 years. Existing 4-Lane Karachi-Hyderabad Super Highway will be upgraded[…]
KARACHI: On Wednesday at exactly 10 am, the master plan for the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) City Karachi or DCK was revealed to real estate agents and investors. The residential project is located 56 kilometres from the city and is being constructed at the cost of one billion dollars. It is spread over 11,640 acres[…]
KARACHI: The farmhouse development sector in Karachi has taken a nosedive with business activity dropping by as much as 75%, farmhouse developers told The Express Tribune. According to Saleem Ahmed Chandna, who heads the All Karachi Farmhouses Welfare Association, the trend of owning and renting farmhouses on the outskirts of Karachi gathered pace with the[…]
The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) has installed 190 surveillance cameras at all entry/exit points and important locations in the Defence area.
KARACHI: Former Karachi Port Trust (KPT) Chairperson Nasreen Haque has said that Pakistan Deep Water Container Port (PDWCP) would be completed by 2014. While talking to The News, she added that it had become mandatory for the ports to meet the emerging demands of shipping lines. Foreseeing the global trend of change, KPT initiated many[…]
Following is the List of postal codes in Pakistan. Serial No GPO Name Post Code Province 1 ABBOTTABAD GPO 22010 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 2 ATTOCK GPO 43600 Punjab 3 BAGH GPO 12500 Azad Kashmir 4 BAHAWAL NAGAR GPO 62300 Punjab 5 BAHAWALPUR GPO 63100 Punjab 6 BANNU GPO 28100 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 7 BATKHELA GPO 23020 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa[…]
The crime rate in the city is increasing by the day and areas previously considered safe havens, such as the posh Defence Housing Authority, are now becoming more dangerous than ever. From simple cases of eve teasing to street crimes and even terrorist attacks, DHA is far from the crime free zone it once was.
KARACHI: After many years in Karachi, a housing society was launched on Friday for people who may want to escape the commercialisation of their neighbourhoods but cannot afford to buy pricier property in say DHA, PECHS or Mohammad Ali Housing Society. Naya Nazimabad City, a project of stockbroker and businessman Arif Habib, is located at[…]
