KARACHI: Overburdened middle and lower-middle classes have been facing a sharp rise in house rent, education, medical and motor fuel expenses...
The latest Inflation Monitor released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reveals that house rent was the top contributor to inflation...
KARACHI: After increasing sharply over the preceding 12 months, house rent remained the largest contributor to year-on-year inflation in August, reported the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in the latest Inflation Monitor...
In its list of top 15 contributors to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for August, the SBP put house rent way ahead of other 14 contributors...
• Minister says only one polio case recorded in seven months • Screening of movies of regional countries, except India, allowedISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved a 44 per cent increase in the house rent allowance ceiling of government employees in view of high rents of residences in major cities, especially Islamabad...
“The initiative has been taken after reviewing the increase in house rents in major cities,”...
RAWALPINDI: Ten years after the Punjab forest department lodged a complaint against Bahria Town, a case was registered on Thursday on charges of kidnapping, illegal detention and occupation of government land...
In the complaint, Mr Ahmed alleged, that the two men were kept in an illegal detention for two hours, after which they escaped...
ISLAMABAD: After facing strong resistance from the landlords recently, the city managers on Friday sought help from the police and the local administration to carry out an operation against an unauthorised housing society in Shah Allah Ditta...
The CDA is planning to carry out the operation against the housing scheme - North Ridge - operating on a private land in Zone III on Monday...
ISLAMABAD: The legality of a housing society located near the New Islamabad International Airport is at stake as the Lahore High Court (LHC)’s Rawalpindi bench dismissed a petition filed by the society against a show-cause notice issued by the Punjab government...
As a result, the housing society is not in a position to claim the completion certificate, which ensures the legality of a society...
ISLAMABAD: The inspector general of the Islamabad police ‘misled’ the Supreme Court about the registration of a criminal case against a private housing society for alleged encroachment on a forest land...
Though the ‘encroachment’ on the forest land near Loi Bher by Bahria Town was reported to the police in 2005, no FIR was registered against the housing society till July 23, 2015...
PESHAWAR: The representatives of various organisations of farmers have expressed concern over the Capital Development Authority’s plan to build a housing society on the land of National Agricultural Research Council (NARC) in Islamabad and warned to observe a sit-in outside the parliament if the plan was not abandoned...
Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club on Friday, Mohammad Israr, representing growers, said that...
A Rawalpindi magistrate on Thursday ordered an assistant registrar of the Supreme Court (SC) and four other accused to submit surety bonds worth Rs50,000 each to ensure their appearance during the trial of a gun attack case filed against them...
Judicial Magistrate Muhammad Owais had summoned SC Assistant Registrar Ghulam Ghous and several other office-bearers of the Supreme Court Employees Cooperative Housing Society (SCECHS) on a...
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday restrained private housing society from converting land reserved for amenities into residential or commercial units...
Petitioners Abrar Hussain and retired Lt Col Sohail Ahmed are among 46 golfers whose golf club memberships were revoked by Bahria Town for protesting the conversion of amenity land meant for the golf club into residential and commercial plots...
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has arrested the top office bearers of the Commerce Employees Cooperative Housing Society for illegal allotment of plots, embezzlement in funds and illegal award of contracts for infrastructural development in the housing scheme to some private construction companies...
A spokesperson of NAB told the media on Thursday that those who were arrested include the former president of the...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has ruled that former railways minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq and his brother former provincial minister Khwaja Salman Rafiq have been involved in cheating the public at large by promoting an illegal society — Paragon City to gain financial benefits, which constitute an offence under section 9-A of National Accountability Ordinance 1999...
The detailed verdict on bail petitions of the Khwaja brothers by a...
An accountability court on Wednesday extended the remand of two detained builders for 14 more days in connection with a probe into reports of fraud in the Fazaia Housing Scheme Karachi (FHSK)...
The investigation officer also highlighted how some Pakistan Air Force (PAF) officials had lured their own peers into purchasing housing units and made millions in the process...
GUJRAT: The local authorities in Sialkot demolished on Sunday a plaza containing offices of a housing society co-owned by former mayor of Sialkot Municipal Corporation (MC) Toheed Akhtar and a son of former defence minister Khwaja Asif...
The Sialkot district administration launched the operation on Sunday with heavy machinery and demolished the multi-storey building, which was being used for offices of Kent Housing Society and other...
HYDERABAD: Accountability Court Judge Inam Ali Kalhoro on Saturday sentenced a former chairman of the Hyderabad Railway Employees Cooperative Housing Society Matloob Ahmed Khan to five years’ imprisonment in a land scam involving Rs1...
The court acquitted two co-accused, Abdul Sattar Leghari, a former administrator of the society, and Naveed Zarar Khan, the managing director of the Sindh Cooperative Housing Authority (SCHA)...