Tag: Land mafia

Violation of law at home: LDA protects land mafia in Lahore

Violating the law at home, Lahore Development Authority (LDA) is protecting land mafia in Lahore, reported a local Urdu news channel. According to the media...

Anti-encroachment drive going successfully in Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI: Punjab Minister for Literacy, Raja Rashid Hafeez, on Sunday declared a full-fledged campaign against illegal encroachment and land mafia, saying that action will...

Murad meets protestors at SC building, listens to their grievances

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah after meeting Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday met with the...

3,757 kanals of land retrieved during anti-encroachment operation in Lahore

LAHORE:  The district administration of Lahore has released a recent report which stated that 3,757 kanals of land were retrieved during the on-going anti-encroachment...

Students in quandary after land grabbers take over trust school

--Darul Hikmat Trust School land allegedly being sold off by former director, accomplices as Board appears helpless in salvaging institute serving students from less...

PPP’s hometown in grip of land mafia

Prof (retd) Mrs Bhagwan Devi has appealed to the chief justice of Pakistan to take notice of land mafia in Larkana. Talking to the media,...

Capital’s anti-encroachment drive halted for ‘some time’

CDA spokesperson says operation will re-start soon ISLAMABAD: After the initial blitzkrieg along the Kashmir Highway against illegal constructions and encroachments, it seems the civic...

Ex-PM Pervaiz Ashraf denies brother’s hand in attack on Christian family

Former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has denied that his brother is involved in an attack on the house of a poor Christian family...

President Alvi’s residential plot remains under land mafia’s hold

President Arif Alvi’s 400 square yards plot which he had purchased in Gulistan-e-Johar’s Block 10 for Rs50,000 in 1978 remains under the illegal occupation...

Zero tolerance against land mafia in ICT: Babar Awan

ISLAMABAD: Advisor to Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs Zaheeruddin Babar Awan on Tuesday directed Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration, Capital Development Authority (CDA), and city...

Karachi police apprehend land mafia suspect who attempted to seize govt...

KARACHI: Police on Friday arrested the main accused who, as part of a land mafia, attempted to seize a government school building in Gulshan-e-Iqbal...

Former secretary escapes, two suspects jailed in illegal land conversion case

KARACHI: Two suspects were remanded in judicial custody by an accountability court in a case related to the conversion of industrial land into commercial and...

Raiwind police reluctant to register FIR against land mafia

LAHORE: Raiwind police station showed reluctance to register a case against the influential land mafia that has been allegedly trying to occupy the land owned...

JIT holds land mafia responsible for Perveen Rehman’s murder

Probe team head seeks three weeks’ time from top court to finalise report ISLAMABAD: Probe into the murder of Perveen Rehman by the interim...

Displaced people are not part of land mafia, says MQM-P chief

Muttahida Quami Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) chief Dr Farooq Sattar said Sunday that all those people who are not a part of the land mafia are...

LDA helpless in taking action against illegal housing societies

LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has failed to take action against the illegal and unapproved housing societies located in the provincial capital, Pakistan Today...

NAB launches probe into illegal sale of land to DHA Karachi

KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has started an enquiry into the alleged illegal purchase of land for Defence Housing Authority City on Super Highway. According...