Tag: Land

ISLAMABAD - A joint constitutional petition challenging a lease agreement, involving 1,128 kanals of prime land of Pakistan Railways in Lahore city, executed between the government of Pakistan and a Malaysian consortium associated by two Pakistani's Lahore based companies- Husnain Construction Company (Pvt) Ltd and Unicon Consulting Service (Pvt) Ltd- on July 26, 2001 was filed before the Supreme Court on Friday.
The petition was filed by Ishaq Khan Khakwani, former MNA and Dr

QUETTA - The Balochistan High Court on Friday stayed the leasing out of hundreds of acres of land in Lasbela district to members of Dubai's royal family for hunting purpose and issued pre-admission notices to both the federal and provincial governments.
The stay order from the court was obtained by no other than the Balochistan Assembly Speaker Muhammad Aslam Bhootani.
The court restrained both the federal and provincial governments from taking further action regarding the

LAHORE - Pakistan players Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif have submitted different statements over the bowling of no-balls at the ICC tribunal hearing the trio's case in a spot-fixing scandal.
According to BBC, the explanation by each player widely differed from the other two when the tribunal asked them various questions.
Two players reportedly said that they did not know why the no-balls were bowled, while one said he did it by mistake.
"During this

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted two-week's time to the Balochistan government to consult with the province's chief minister regarding allotment of Gwadar Port Authority land to a foreign company.
A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a joint petition of its own initiative through a suo motu notice. Earlier on Dec 8, the court had barred Port of Singapore

ADDIS ABABA - In a run-down synagogue built from corrugated iron sheets in the north east of the Ethiopian capital, preacher Wagaw Moges addresses a crowd of dozens gathered for weekday prayers.
The participants are all members of a 2,000-strong community in Addis Ababa who claim Jewish lineage, but their very origins are doubted by authorities in Israel who believe they are imposters seeking entry under the guise of religion.
"Be strong my colleagues, there will be a lot

MOSCOW: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday said Japan should realise Moscow would not give up disputed Pacific islands, proposing instead to consider creating a free economic zone there.
"All the South Kuril Islands are Russia's territory," Medvedev said in a live end-of-the-year television interview.
"That's our land, we should take all appropriate decisions there, we should rebuild the Kurils, do everything that people live like humans there. I personally promised

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) executive board meeting on Wednesday gave the green signal for an inquiry against former housing minister Rehmatullah Kakar, who belongs to the JUI-F, for his alleged involvement in purchase of land near Bhara Kahu at an exorbitant price.
An informed NAB source confided to Pakistan Today that the ministry had purchased the land at a price of around Rs 2.7 billion. "The actual cost of the land was Rs 200,000 per kanal while the

MIRPURKHAS - Upon visiting graveyards in several districts of Sindh during Ashura, relatives discovered that land-mafia had grabbed the land that was once a resting place for the deceased.
Pakistan Today found out in a survey that more then 200 grave yards in Mirpurkhas, Umerkot, Sanghar, Tnado Allahyar, Jam Shoro, Hyderabad, Nawabshah and other districts of Sindh were occupied by land-grabbers and markets, mosques and Imam Barghas had been constructed on them.
In

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday directed all parties to submit in court by the second week of January the relevant record of illegal sale of 26.5 kanals of land in the Diplomatic Enclave to Hamid Yar Hiraj, chairman of the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA).
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was conducting a suo motu hearing on a case regarding the allotment

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday issued notice to the chairman of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to appear in court on Monday to explain the allotment of a 26.5-kanal plot in the Diplomatic Enclave to Hamid Yar Hiraj in violation of rules in December 2007.
Hiraj is a member of the parliamentary accountability committee and the chairman of the Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Authority. Hirraj was also issued

WAZIRABAD: Jamat-e-Islami Wazirabad took out a protesting rally consisting of thousands of people who voiced against the illegal occupation of 24 canal land situated at Daska Road Wazirabad.
The rally was lead by town Amir Khalid, Anwer, Rawal, Abdul-Wahed Alvi & others. The participates of the rally marched from Islamic centre. The participants of the rally raised slogans against patwari of the area and Wazirabad tehsildar.
They demanded the transfer of the said persons

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday barred the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) from transferring immovable assets of the Gwadar Port Authority (GPA) until a final decision of the case.
The court also named the Balochistan government party to the case and issued notices to all other parties concerned. The bench consisting of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was conducting a suo motu hearing on the

KARACHI: The speakers of a consultative workshop on agriculture issues, jointly organised by Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI), Oxfam GB and European Commission, on Monday demanded proper implementation of Land Tenancy Act in Sindh.
They urged the country's commercial banks to decrease the interest rate on agricultural loans for small farmers, adding the government should give subsidy to the banks for this purpose.
They also asked the State Bank of Pakistan to

LAHORE: A large portion of lands belonging to schools across Punjab have been illegally occupied by the land mafia while the Punjab government's School Education Department is under pressure to vacate the occupied lands, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The lands have been occupied by influential people from decades in almost all districts of the province including Lahore, Sheikhupura, Gujranwala, Mianwali, Kasur, Rahim Yar Khan and Faisalabad and due to influential personalities and

QUETTA: Balochistan Assembly Speaker Muhammad Aslam Bhotani said that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was influencing the Balochistan government in the allotment of land along the coastal highway to Arabs and warned that Balochis would resist if they were deprived of their land.
Addressing a press conference at the Quetta Press Club, Bhotani said that the previous government had allotted 70,000 acres along the coastal highway of Balochistan to a federal institution, which

LAHORE
Massive irregularities have been detected in the allocation of five quarters and their extension to the adjacent park in Model Town J Block, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The quarters, each measuring four marlas, were awarded to non-employees and non-members of the Model Town Society (MTS). The occupants were also allowed to extend the boundaries of the quarters to the adjacent parks in J-Block without the approval of the managing committee and against the society's

KARACHI
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain has asked all political and religious parties to support the Land Reforms Bill submitted by his party in the parliament. The bill aims at bringing peace and prosperity in the country by ending illiteracy, unemployment and poverty.
In a statement issued from London, Altaf congratulated MQM parliamentarians for presenting the bill.
"The MQM wants to bring a peaceful revolution in the country. It believes in