“A building can last for decades, and the land underneath it is practically indestructible...
With the increasing cost of living, the stock market wavering, and an unpredictable trend of violence persisting in the city, one can only wonder about the individuals who are investing heavily in land in Karachi...
KARACHI is a city characterised by contestations over resources by a diverse set of formal and informal actors — land and water being the two sectors where this trend is the most prevalent...
As a parallel economy, it has become more difficult to effectively document the interface between land, services, housing and the associated socio-political, economic and environmental undercurrents...
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab education department has declared the land of the Government Christian High School for Boys, Raja Bazaar a ‘state land’ and has directed the district coordination officer to ensure that encroachments are removed from the area...
It is being run by the Punjab government at present, which has failed to protect the school’s land from being encroached upon...
After first calling for dignity for the marginalised low-caste community, Mevani, 35, is now demanding land for landless Dalits and has threatened a wider protest from October 1...
Earlier this week, hundreds of Dalits rallied in Ahmedabad in Gujarat to demand land that is due to them...
National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday claimed to have retrieved 10,000 acres of usurped state land off Superhighway near Karachi worth Rs75 billion, where some major housing schemes were launched in connivance with the revenue officials, Dawn has learnt...
“In an investigation against revenue authorities on allegations of fake allotments of lands at Thana Boola Khan, Jamshoro, NAB has been successful in getting thousands of...
ISLAMABAD: The chairman of the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) on Tuesday informed the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the Lahore Defence Housing Authority (DHA) had withheld 300 kanals of its land which was contrary to a written agreement between the two organisations...
93 billion loss caused to the national exchequer by ETPB, Lahore DHA and private companies High Link and Elysium Holding, owned by brothers of former army...
LAHORE: A delegation of the Golden Bean Group of China will visit Lahore in January to finalise the location of a theme park for which the Punjab Board of Investment and Trade will help the company...
Participants in an investment facilitation committee meeting held at PBIT office on Friday discussed establishment of the amusement park and an aquarium in Lahore...
Contrary to earlier reports of their arrival at Islamabad, PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz on Sunday said she and her father, ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, will land at Lahore airport on Friday evening...
EY-243 will land at Lahore airport at 6:15 in the evening, Maryam revealed...
LAHORE: After five members of a family were allegedly shot dead by their rivals over a property dispute in Barki area on Tuesday, the relatives of the victims set ablaze houses of the suspects and later lodged strong protests against police by placing the dead bodies, first outside the Punjab Assembly and then in front of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan’s house in Zaman Park...
The incident occurred at Phularwan village...
LAHORE: After a long gap of 12 years, the Bangladesh cricket team will arrive in Pakistan on Wednesday evening to play a three-match Twenty20 International series at the Gaddafi Stadium here from Jan 24 to 27...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has turned down a request to stay auction and transfer of commercial land at the old Walton airport for the establishment of a business district by the Lahore Central Business District Development Authority (LCBDDA)...
Muhammad Azam filed a petition, challenging the Punjab government’s action of taking over the old Walton airport land owned by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) “in illegal manner”...
LAHORE: The Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has arrested PML-N MNA Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf in a land fraud case...
ACE Director General Nadeem Sarwar said on Tuesday that Chaudhry Ashraf had grabbed over 157 acres of state land by forgery and fraud in connivance with Patwari Muhammad Saleem and Gardawar Riast Ali...
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) claims to have added undeveloped 33,000 acres of brown areas (the land allocated / notified for housing projects) into the green areas in the Lahore Master Plan-2050...
“In north side of Lahore (Kala Shah Kaku and Muridke sides in Sheikhupura district), we have taken 27,000 acres out of the undeveloped brown areas and declared them as green ones for agriculture use...
Depicting Lahore in images is an old practice and its early patterns could be found in the miniature paintings of the Mughal era...
Lahore, being the cultural hub, played a vital role in the arts, literature and culture in the mid-20th century; especially, visual art was inspired by the rich panoramic beauty of the walled city and life around its 13 gates, so an exclusive genre of cityscape came into existence, as early as the...
NOWSHERA: A man and a woman were killed and two others wounded when two groups clashed over a land dispute in Akbarpura area here on Saturday...