The Supreme Court directed the relevant authorities to end illegal occupation of state property across Sindh including Karachi. It further issued orders for the restoration of green belts, removal of encroachments from parks and playgrounds and ending the illegal occupation of land owned by the forest and irrigation departments across the province. The directive from a three-member bench headed by...
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday approved filing of a reference against Ejaz Haroon, former chairman of the Pakistan International Airlines, Abdul Ghani Majeed of Omni Group and others in an accountability court for their alleged involvement in illegal allotment of plots in Overseas Cooperative Housing Society, Kidney Hills, Karachi. The decision was taken at a meeting of the...
Federal government considered the much awaited infrastructure projects of the city of lights worth Rs739 billion titled Karachi Transformation Plan to be financed through public-private partnership (PPP). The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) granted its go ahead for undertaking the Karachi Transformation Plan (KTP) at an estimated cost of Rs739 billion that would be financed through the Public...
Karachi commissioner Navid Ahmed Shaikh oversaw on Tuesday the sealing of Tejori Heights- an under construction building being erected on a piece of land claimed by the Pakistan Railways and allocated for the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) in Gulshan-e-Iqbal- bringing its construction to a halt. The move came following a Supreme Court order issued earlier this week. The bench had directed the builder of...
CJP Gulzar Ahmed observed that removal of encroachments from government lands was the responsibility of the Revenue department and said the whole of Karachi had been developed on encroached government land. The court observed that high rises have been constructed on encroached government lands at the Super Highway ahead of the University Road where boundary walls have been raised by...
Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that the Govt of Pakistan has extended the fixed tax regime to Dec 31, 2021. He said this had been a big demand from the construction industry which was why they were given an "extra year". The Prime Minister said, "We believe that the economic activity that this will generate only in Punjab will be equivalent to Rs1,500bn and will result in 250,000 jobs. Similar...
The govt of Pakistan is considering giving 3-6 months extension in Prime Minister Imran Khan’s tax amnesty scheme for the construction sector. The scheme is going to expire on tomorrow. According to State Bank of Pakistan, on the back of the government housing package, strong construction momentum drove up cement sales to record levels in Q1 FY21. The deliberations to extend the scheme have...
Pakistani ambassador to Germany, Dr Mohammad Faisal, said on Tuesday he had met Dieter Mettke from the multinational IKEA conglomerate who was en route to Pakistan to start IKEA operations there. “Met Dieter Mettke @IKEA_Deutchland. He is going to #Pakistan to be Incharge of #ikea operations,” Ambassador Faisal said on Twitter. “We look forward to #ikea opening up stores in major cities of...
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Thursday “endorsed” Rs739 billion Karachi Transformation Plan (KTP) and allowed revision in the Master Plan for five terminals at Port Qasim. The meeting of the ECC presided over by Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh. ECC discussed the plan thoroughly and endorsed, in principle, with the direction to secure approval from all...
Bilawal Bhutto has laid the foundation stone of 6 lane Malir Expressway, Karachi. Malir Expressway is 38.75 KMs long expressway at a cost of Rs 27.5 Billion. It is the biggest public private partnership project of Pakistan which has been conceived & now being implementing by Sindh Govt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-UpxOmC5BA Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said the project that is being...
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