Tag: Land

A Lahore High Court division bench restrained Border Area Committee (BAC) from snatching possession of agricultural land in border area of Kasur from its...

Over 60 percent of the unidentified bodies at the Edhi morgue are buried after no heir turns up to claim them for up to...

Land grabbers involved in illegally occupying government lands in Karachi were well organised and more powerful, and the administration was helpless in countering them,...

A sum of Rs 21.6 billion will be spent on acquisition of land for the southern section of Ring Road in accordance with the...

The director general of the Sindh Katchi Abadis Authority (SKAA), Mohammad Yasin Shar directed the field directors of his department on Saturday to take...

The Sindh High Court (SHC) gave until May 31 to the Sindh chief secretary (CS), a senior member of the Board of Revenue (BoR)...

KARACHI - The land mafia has taken over a large portion of Gulshan-e-Sikandarabad, a precious land of the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) worth billions of rupees that was reclaimed from the Chinna Creek, the KPT said in a press release issued on Wednesday. The KPT claimed that one Sikandar Jadoon is the leader of the land mafia that is controlling the area through Jadoon's influence. Only the KPT is authorised to reclaim land for development of the port and the surrounding area for cargo

ISLAMABAD - The Public Accounts Committee was informed on Wednesday that Karachi Port Trust (KPT) sold its precious land at the throwaway price of 10 paisa per square yard to the cooperative housing society in 1980s. The committee, which met here with Yasmeen Rehman in the chair to review audit reports of the ministry of ports and shipping, was informed by the audit authorities that KPT in 1980s sold 400 acres of its precious land in Karachi at the throwaway price of 10 paisa per

KARACHI - The land mafia has not even spared the land allotted for the establishment of the Education City in Karachi and has encroached upon several acres there, Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said on Tuesday The provincial chief executive was presiding over a meeting convened to review the progress on the project, an official handout stated.
"The previous government had initiated the Education City project and made initial allotments there but at present many people have

KARACHI - Extortionists and land grabbers responsible for the prevailing unrest in Karachi that has adversely affected industrial growth in the province, provincial Commerce and Industries Minister Rauf Siddiqui said on Tuesday. "However, extortionists, land grabbers and the other criminals could be taken to task by using modern technology and developing close liaison between each institute," he said while speaking at a business community reception held at the SITE Association office.

LAHORE - LDA Avenue-I Estate Management Directorate staff retrieved an eight kanal piece of land in connection with its action against illegal occupants in the government employees' housing scheme on Tuesday and handed over the land to LDA Chief Engineer. The chunk had been illegally occupied by a private housing scheme.

KARACHI - Speakers at a seminar on the rehabilitation of flood affected people - with the focus on 'choices imposed and choices made' - have demanded that the lands of Karachi, allotted to the people of other provinces, should be given to the flood survivors of Sindh.
"The flood-affected people living in relief camps are being forced to leave the city," they added. The seminar was organised at the Jashn-e-Faiz event by the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research

HAFIZABAD - Punjab Food Secretary Irfan Elahi, who is also project director, land record management information system, has said the government is spending a huge amount on the computerisation of land record to eradicate traditional patwari culture from the province, curb corruption in the revenue department and provide relief to landowners as well as the common man.
Addressing a meeting at District Complex Hafizabad, he said in this modern age, information could not be concealed

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Pakistan's diversity and resilience have rarely figured in the single-issue focus of recent literature on the country. But that is now set to change, with the Oxford University Press's (OUP) launching Pakistan: Beyond the 'Crisis State' on Friday.
The book has been edited by distinguished journalist and diplomat Maleeha Lodhi, and presents an alternate paradigm and a deeper understanding of the country's dynamics that may help explain why Pakistan

KARACHI - News of targeted violence are often splashed across headlines but journalists reporting on the issue often fail to connect the phenomenon with disputes over land, argued Shehri-Citizens for a Better Environment (CBE) Secretary-General Amber Alibhai on Wednesday at a workshop organised at a local hotel.
"Land and targeted killings are connected, but reporting of this issue lacks substance and context," Alibhai said during her welcome address, explaining that in a large

LAHORE - Around 97 percent of government land is still under illegal control of land grabbers despite a massive anti-encroachment drive running at full throttle for the last 25 days.
The anti-encroachment campaign was launched on March 11 and the government has retrieved only three percent of the total encroached upon land so far. According to sources in the DCO office, the drive is about to be wrapped up within the next two or three days, which means that the rest of the

NEW DELHI - The Indian army has developed a lucrative sideline in running luxury golf courses on rent-free government land, the nation's auditor has claimed in a damning new report on corruption. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) found that at least 32 square kilometres (12 square miles) of rent-free land had been handed to a privately-run company, Army Zone Golf, which operates 97 luxury golf courses.
The auditor also found the army had bought golf carts and passed them