NAB soft on Zardari as well as Sharifs
ISLAMABAD: If the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is friendly to President Asif Ali Zardari and his coterie, it is extraordinarily soft on the Sharifs and other opposition leaders, too.
Five LDA officials sacked
LAHORE, March 12: Three building inspectors of the Lahore Development Authority were forcibly retired from service on Saturday after they were found involved in construction of illegal high-rises in the Punjab capital, while two clerks were sacked for not joining a probe.
CDG all set to launch anti-encroachment drive
LAHORE – City District Government is all set to launch massive operation against encroachments across the City from Friday (today), after giving due time of clearing the encroachments. The CDG has already marked encroached land, both at major roads and important business centres in all nine towns and LDA governed areas, with the help of[…]
LDA employees’ plots quota scam – Balloting restrained
Petitioner says new balloting will do injustice with those who were awarded plots in February; Committee had concluded that employees with 10 years of service be allotted plots; LDA official says LDA slashed the number of plots by 50 percent despite avail
LDA mute on 23 underdeveloped schemes
LDA turns a deaf ear to SC’s ruling on housing societies; Department’s DG stops operation against underdeveloped schemes approved before 2005
LDA told to submit record of journalists’ colony
LAHORE, March 2: The Lahore High Court (LHC) gave on Wednesday a last chance to the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) to submit the record of the Lahore Press Club Housing Scheme and adjourned by March 22 a petition challenging the proposed conversion of a park of the scheme into a residential area.
CM inaugurates Kalma Chowk Flyover
LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif laid the foundation stone of flyover project at Kalma Chowk costing more than Rs 2.3 billion. The flyover, which will be the best of the country, will be completed by August 14. Two flyovers of three-lane each will also be constructed on both sides of Ferozepur Road,[…]
LDA takes its cue from CDA
Taking their cue from the Capital Development Authority (CDA), the district authorities in Lahore are also bracing up to launching an anti-encroachment drive in Lahore where, according to a recent study, nearly nine percent of the entire state land (42,858 kanals out of a total of 381,912 kanals to be precise) has been encroached upon[…]
Grand operation-clean up in Lahore from March 11, 2011
City District Government Lahore advertise in today’s Urdu new paper Jang to start a Grand clean up operation against encroachment in Lahore from March 11, 2011. Public to be informed to remove encroachment from their business spots.
LDA given last chance for reply
The Lahore High Court on Wednesday gave last chance to the Lahore Development Authority to furnish relevant record on a petition challenging proposed conversion of recreational park at the Lahore Press Club Journalist Housing Scheme Lahore into a residential area by way of carving out of it plots for as many as 295 newly inducted[…]