PESHAWAR: An explosive device went off near a banquet hall in Nishtar Abad area of the provincial capital on Friday, but there were no casualties, police said...
30am near Haleem Banquet Hall located along GT Road, smashing its windowpanes and the buildings nearby, a police official at the Gulbahar police station told Dawn...
This incident took place during a period when the 500-year-old Muslim rule in India was collapsing and British colonialists were consolidating their dominance in India...
’This violence continues to haunt India — now more than ever — despite the creation of Muslim-majority Pakistan in 1947...
I approached a beggar outside a shop...
I gave him some money and then invited him to a cup of tea at a roadside place
The NAB has recently launched investigation into the contract agreement signed between the PLDC and M/s Anhui Construction Engineering Group owned by Director Paragon Exchange Ali Sajjad, M/s Bismillah Engineering Company owned by chief executive of Paragon City Nadeem Zia and M/s Sparco Group for construction of a housing project - Ashiana Iqbal Lahore -- under the public-private partnership...
The Colonies Department of the Punjab...
Faridi is accused of presenting fake documents, obtaining constructive possession of Ashiana Iqbal project without financial close and willfully failing to complete the project causing a loss of around Rs1bn to the government...
A NAB spokesman said the suspect with mala fide intentions obtained constructive possession of Ashiana Iqbal project without financial close and willfully failed to complete the project that caused Rs1 billion...
LAHORE: In a major development in the Rs14 billion Ashiana-i-Iqbal housing scam, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday arrested four more suspects including two senior officers of the Punjab government...
Mr Cheema is accused of misusing his authority and with “criminal intent prepared, processed, recommended and got approved a fraudulent and illegal request by awarding contract of the Ashiana-i-Iqbal Housing Society...
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore has again summoned secretary to prime minister Fawad Hassan Fawad on Thursday (today) for his alleged role in awarding a contract to a firm in violation of rules in the Ashiana-i-Iqbal housing scam...
Mr Fawad had appeared before the NAB’s combined investigation team at its Lahore office and recorded his statement with regard to award and cancellation of the contract related to...
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore on Friday arrested two more suspects in the Rs14 billion Ashiana-i-Iqbal Housing Society scam...
NAB officials produced Cheema, the prime accused in the Ashiana Housing Scheme case, before the court following the completion of a three-day remand and sought physical remand of another 15-days, citing some new revelations of assets beyond his income...
Ahad Khan Cheema was arrested a few months ago on charges of misusing his authority and, with criminal intent, processing and awarding the Ashiana-i-lqbal project contract worth Rs14...
Civil Services Academy Director General Fawad Hassan Fawad was placed under arrest by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday for his alleged involvement in the Rs14 billion Ashiana-i-Iqbal Housing Scheme scam, DawnNewsTV reported, citing a NAB source...
Fawad ? who in 2013 had allegedly pressurised the PLDC chief executive officer (CEO) Tahir Khursheed and Project Director Ali Moazzam to cancel the Ashiana contract with...
After the statement of Mr Fawad Hasan Fawad, former principal secretary to ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif, in which he named Shahbaz Sharif for awarding contract to a “favourite firm” in Rs14bn Ashiana Housing project on his (Shahbaz’s) orders, former chief executive officer (CEO) of the Punjab Saaf Pani Company (PSPC) Wasim Ajmal has also reportedly passed the buck to the PML-N president, accusing him of making him (Mr Ajmal) a scapegoat to...
The Punjab government's controversial Ashiana housing projects, launched in 2010, have been the subject of much controversy and speculation over the years...
Launched as low-cost housing schemes for those who otherwise could not afford space in Lahore's rapidly heating property market, the Ashiana projects were greeted with considerable enthusiasm when they launched...
LAHORE: A senior lawyer has approached the Lahore High Court challenging the arrest of opposition leader in National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in Ashiana-i-Iqbal Housing Scheme case...
LAHORE: An accountability court on Monday recorded statements of three prosecution witnesses in Ashiana-i-Iqbal Housing Scheme reference against leader of opposition in National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif and other suspects...
It said he in connivance with his co-suspects awarded contract to an ineligible proxy firm that resulted in failure of Ashiana housing scheme causing a loss to public exchequer and deprived 61,000 applicants of...
PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday held a press conference in London to declare that the "Niazi-NAB nexus had once more been dealt a defeat"...
His remarks came a day after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) withdrew a set of appeals when it failed to convince the Supreme Court what role former chief minister Shehbaz Sharif had played in the Ashiyana-i-Iqbal Housing Scheme