KARACHI: Restoration and rehabilitation work at the Bagh Ibne Qasim is going on at full swing and soon it will be completed after which it will be opened to public, said city mayor Waseem Akhtar on Sunday...
Briefing the media persons after a visit to the garden, he said that Bagh Ibne Qasim spread over 130 acres was the biggest park in the metropolis and being near the seaside it had special attraction for the Karachiites, who along...
KARACHI: Mayor Wasim Akhtar on Friday visited Bagh Ibne Qasim and said Karachi Metropolitan Corporation had launched the long-ignored park’s facelift project to make it a favourite spot for families...
“We have begun work on the facelift of Bagh Ibne Qasim with 200 of our staff working on it...
KARACHI: While the provincial government on Monday justified before the Sindh High Court its decision to hand over Bagh Ibne Qasim to Bahria Town, the real estate giant informed the court that it was no longer interested in taking over the iconic park for maintenance purpose if the matter remained disputed...
The bench, headed by Justice Junaid Ghaffar, had on April 3 restrained the Sindh government from handing over Bagh Ibne Qasim...
KARACHI: Controversy over the provincial government’s decision to hand over Bagh Ibne Qasim, the city’s iconic park, to real estate tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain of Bahria Town deepened on Saturday when the matter was taken to the Sindh High Court...
Bagh Ibne QasimReplying to a question about Bagh Ibne Qasim’s handing over to a real-estate tycoon, the chief minister said the Sindh Assembly had passed a law about parks and keeping it in view, Bagh Ibne Qasim was handed over to Bahria Town to help improve and renovate the park...
Sitara-i-Imtiaz: Dr Shahzad Nasim (Singapore, services to Pakistan), Dr Zaid Ahmed Al-Muhaisen (Jordan, services to Pakistan), Prof Javed Iqbal (Punjab, services to Pakistan), Dr Asif Mahmood (USA, services to Pakistan), Najeeb Ullah Ghauri (USA, services to Pakistan), Dr Pavel Bem (Czech Republic, services to Pakistan), Dr Selamic Kilic (Turkey, services to Pakistan), Dr Berislav Gaso (Croatia, services to Pakistan), Zia Aftab (Punjab,...
Unanimously they decided to stop paying exorbitant fees to the private schools where they sent their children to study...
Is this the new face of bhatta mafia?” asked another parent, Faraz Ahmed, who is paying Rs22,000 each as school fee for his three children...
APROPOS of Faisal Bari’s article ‘Anti-competitive practices’ (April 24), it is unfortunate that parents are willing to pay high fees but never ask the authorities to justify the high charges...
IT is a matter of concern that private schools all over the country charge fees for summer vacations...
The schools have started collecting in advance fees for June and July, with no regulatory check in operation...
ISLAMABAD: A large number of parents staged a protest in the city on Sunday against the private schools which suddenly and arbitrarily increased fees of schoolchildren...
”Some parents have filed complaints with high government offices that while the inflation rate is between 5 and 7 per cent, the private schools have increased their fees by up to 18 per cent...
ISLAMABAD: Following protests in major cities over the exorbitant fees charged by private schools, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif finally took notice of the campaign by affected parents and ordered that the chairman of the body designated to deal with this issue be appointed without delay...
“There is so much unrest among parents due to an increase in monthly fees by private schools and, unfortunately, the government is not doing enough...
A group of famous private schools increases the school fee every year, particularly without any corresponding increase in the quality of education...
We call upon the government to create monitoring authority to regulate private schools, especially the fees it can take and enforce it...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has been approached for the cancellation of registration of private schools receiving exaggerated fees and for setting a fee structure for schools...
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, apparently putting his foot down, has ordered that no private schools should raise their fees in the year 2015...
The PM’s order comes on the heels of an ordinance, issued by the Punjab government, which also bars private schools from raising their fees this year...