KARACHI: A report about the Nov 14 fire that broke out in the Saddar Cooperative Market has said that 500 shops situated on the ground floor were gutted in the blaze...
Talking to Dawn, Chief Fire Officer of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Mubeen Ahmed said that the report had been submitted to Karachi Administrator Murtaza Wahab...
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s plan announced in 2011 to revive the cooperative bank has fizzled out due to legal and other problems...
They said since 2011, the government had allocated Rs200 million annually to resuscitate the bank but the money remained unspent due to litigations from former employees and legal issues raised by the law department...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) counsel Abdul Hafeez Pirzada on Monday alleged that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) remained non-cooperative and did not produce documents which the PTI intended to present as evidence before the judicial commission...
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, informed the administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts on Wednesday about the 90-day preventive detention of former chairman of Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) Dr Nisar Morai for questioning...
While the administrative judge was informed that Nisar Ahmed Jan Memon, better known as Nisar Morai, had been arrested in Karachi, a Rangers spokesman said in a statement that he was arrested in...
LAHORE: The government employees who retired from the Pakistan Council of Science and Industrial Research have not been receiving pension for the last two months...
Dr Shahid, who retired in BPS-20 from the PCSIR three years ago, visited Dawn offices on Monday to narrate the ordeal he and other pensioners had been going through for the two months...
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday restrained the departmental promotion board (DPB) of the Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (PCSIR) from making a final decision on the promotions of grade-19 officers without the permission of the court...
The bench was hearing a petition filed by Dr Riazuddin, a PCSIR officer, who assailed the PCSIR’s notification regarding constitution of the DPB...
Around nine years ago, the PCSIR had come to the help of the rickets patients by making ‘Jolly Solution’...
They, however, said some patients were fortunate as pediatricians referred them to the PCSIR Peshawar for getting ‘Jolly Solution’ at nominal rate...
The complainant said after the senior officials of the department arrived at the scene, Bahria Town employees left from the place but leaving behind a machine which was confiscated by the forest department...
Later, over 100 Bahria Town employees arrived on the spot, attacked the forest department staff, beat up two of them and kidnapped them...
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...
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 complaint of the society’s developer and landowner Akash Afzal...
However, the contractor later accused Ghous, who is president of the society, of embezzlement of funds and lodged a complaint with the authorities against him...
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday restrained private housing society from converting land reserved for amenities into residential or commercial units...
When the JAC expressed its concerns to Bahria Town owner Malik Riaz, the housing society cancelled the memberships of 46 of its members...