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RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD: Indian triumph over Pakistan in a high-octane World Cup semi final poured cold water over cricket hysteria fanned by the media. The frenzy burned out immediately after the Indian side inflicted a defeat upon Pakistan while the cricket fans felt very depressed and humiliated after the game. There was no activity other than cricket[…]
ISLAMABAD, March 29: Expansion of the Kashmir Highway to carry the traffic to the new Islamabad airport coming up in Fatehjang area has run into trouble with the military. Dawn has learnt that part of the 11km long stretch of the highway from Golra Mor to G.T. Road is in the adverse possession of the[…]
The Pakistan’s Capital Development Authority (CDA) has made arrangements to make the Pakistan-India World Cup semi-final tomorrow ‘an event of festivity’ by installing big screens in F-9 Park and some other places in the capital city Islamabad. “We have made elaborate arrangements to show the match on big screens,” said Ramzan Sajid, CDA spokesman.
ISLAMABAD – The Headquarters building of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) plunged into darkness at 8:30 p.m. the other night when it observed ‘World Earth Hour’ by switching all the electrical lights off in the premises of the building. Chairman CDA Imtiaz Inayat Elahi switched off all the essential and non-essential lights between 8:30 p.m.[…]
ISLAMABAD: Affectees of the Sector G 12 Islamabad are not ready to leave the area at any cost. Raja Jamsheed, Munir Ahmed, Asad, Sajad Abbasi and others, while talking to Daily Times, claimed that when the land was acquired by the civic agency, they had refused the money against land. Even those who accepted the[…]
ISLAMABAD: CDA Member Planning Tahir Shamshad claimed while talking to this scribe that illegal construction was done prior to his arrival in the civic agency but now he had instructed the relevant departments to insure that no one erects any structure in the sector. He said if some had refused the money at the time[…]
ISLAMABAD – Even after the lapse of three months after the cancellation of allotment letters to the entitled awardees of villages Kuri and Rehahra, the Capital Development Authority (CDA), so far, has not developed a comprehensive mechanism of revalidation of cancelled allotment letters. Not even a sing le invalidated allotment letter has yet been revalidated[…]
ISLAMABAD: The illegally constructed mosques in Islamabad are putting an extra financial burden on law enforcement agencies, besides raising security risks. According to the Interior Ministry’s official documents, the mosques are being provided with walk-through gates along with at least two police officials for security reasons. An official of the ministry said that as many[…]
ISLAMABAD, March 27: The government has issued statutory regulations to ensure building standards for energy conservation across the country. Developed and introduced by the National Energy Conservation Centre (Enercon), Ministry of Environment, the new Building Energy Code of Pakistan (BECP) prescribes better insulations for effective cooling and heating besides other energy conservation methods that can[…]
ISLAMABAD: The operation against land grabbers has reached a deadlock, with CDA shifting the responsibility onto ICT Administration and police. However the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration, when contacted, rejected the notion that such operations were a part of their duty. A senior CDA official said that CDA Chairperson Imtiaz Inayat Ellahi was informed time[…]
ISLAMABAD, March 25: The estate wing of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has termed the 14 restaurants and 54 guesthouses in the residential sectors illegal but they are continuing their businesses unhindered, has learnt. “We have issued notices to all these illegal businesses several times, but under political pressure, the CDA had never taken any[…]
Federal Audit Works DG says no lease or auction was held in allotment of plots ISLAMABAD: A special committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Friday sought a report from the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on the allotment of plots to a former army chief and three aide-de-camps (ADC) of former prime ministers without[…]
ISLAMABAD: The government`s financial plans for the next budget are still being given final shape and they include a step to bring real estate into the tax net. It aims to introduce heavy penalties for those found guilty of evasion as well as more drastic measures such as purchases by the government in case property[…]
ISLAMABAD (March 23, 2011) : The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has not received any go-ahead for initiation of the work on ‘Safe City Islamabad’ Project, informed sources in the CDA revealed to Business Recorder on Tuesday. Safe City Islamabad is a security enhancement project with an estimated cost of Rs 12.9 billion ($151.2 million) under[…]
RAWALPINDI, March 21: As the World Day for Water is being observed today (Tuesday), availability of drinking water in the Potohar region, including Rawalpindi and Islamabad, has gone down by 100 to 210 feet in the last 30 years.
ISLAMABAD, Mar 22 (APP): Residents of capital city demanded of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to upgrade and repair the playgrounds of the city.Several playgrounds are in dilapidated condition due to lukewarm attitude of the concerned authorities.Ahmed Ali, a resident of Sector G-7 Islamabad said that most of the playground and parks need repairing and[…]
ISLAMABAD, March 20 (APP): The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is planning to run 30 buses on Faizabad-Islamabad route for ensuring cheap and respectable travelling facility to commuters shuttling between the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.“The service will soon be launched and a bus stand is being established at Faizabad – the main junction between[…]
ISLAMABAD, March 18: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat on Friday directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to reclaim land in Sector G-12 Islamabad and Sector F-12 Islamabad. “CDA should check increasing illegal occupation of land in both the sectors,” said the chairman of the committee Dewan Ashiq Hussain.
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is reviewing an agreement it had signed with a private construction firm to develop a new residential sector in the foothills of Margalla by violating its own land-sharing formula applied in the recently-acquired sectors, sources in the civic body told Dawn on Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD – Due to the negligence of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), construction of illegal mosques continues in the city with over 40 mosques so far been illegally constructed in the various parts of the city while 82 other mosques have encroached upon CDA’s land.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has in principal decided to change the status of Sector I-17 Islamabad from ‘industrial’ to ‘residential’, the Chairman of the Authority told ‘The News’. “In fact the ‘I-series’ sectors were all meant to be residential sectors. However, the status of some parts of I-9 and I-10 were declared as ‘industrial’[…]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Capital is becoming a health hazard with a number of environmental problems including air, traffic, and water pollution, solid waste dumps, and industrial nuisance while concerned authorities remain untouched. Besides damaging public health, environmental pollution is also threatening the natural beauty of the city. The average temperature in the city is increasing each[…]
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Imtiaz Inayat Elahi on Wednesday directed the Revenue Directorate of the authority to expedite the campaign of property tax, water charges and other allied charges.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its judgment in a suo motu case against the allotment of a land measuring 54 acres and worth billion of rupees in Sector E-11 of the federal capital by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to the Multi Professional Housing Society on the pretext of its development.
ISLAMABAD, March 13: Minister for Law Babar Awan on Sunday said the decision on bifurcation of the capital into two districts East and West will be implemented before the coming budget.
