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Posts Tagged ‘CDA’

CDA Playing with Sehba Musharraf

By Rohail Butt • Sep 22nd, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Woman, land, and money are the most powerful forces of this world, so the frantic movements of former first woman of Pakistan, Sehba Musharraf are understandable to save the farm house of his husband.
But look at the vicissitudes of the time. How the sky changes color. A great lesson for everyone who is basking in [...]



Lake View Park Accident

By Ali Yar Khan • Jun 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Just imagine that your whole family has gone for a picnic to some park, and your lovely kids are on the swings laughing and enjoying and all of a sudden your whole worlds comes crumbling down, and …..
A child died as a swing in newly established Lake View park collapsed. Many were childen and it [...]



McDonalds in Islamabad No More? Blow to Investment in Pakistan

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jun 4th, 2010 • Category: Misc

A three-member Supreme Court (SC) bench has ordered demolition of illegal construction of commercial buildings in F-9 Park, also known as Fatima Jinnah Park.
The bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justices Ghulam Rabbani and Khalilur Rehman Ramday gave its ruling in a case filed against constructions built inside the [...]



Plague and the cure; Rehabilitation

By Ethsam Waheed • Jun 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

So here I am, wake up early morning and grab a newspaper before I head out for a long day ahead of me. The streak of news that strikes my eye and mind is very alarming. A few terrorist in Afghanistan sprayed poisonous gas on some girls along with the teacher injuring all of them. [...]



F-9 Park Club, Is Suo Moto Action Justified?

By Umer Toor • May 11th, 2010 • Category: Politics

When the people of Pakistan are dying and suffering due to the absence of justice in the courts, the honorable apex court has ample time to take up the cases of building of club in the F-9 Park, Islamabad. Commissions and kickbacks are everywhere and it can be safely said that might be it would [...]



Ansar Abbassi Unveils Corruption of Bilawal Zardari and Asif Zardari

By Guest Blogger • Nov 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

A private company owned by President Asif Ali Zardari and his son Bilawal Zardari purchased 2,460 Kanals (307 acres) of prime land in Islamabad in March 2009, valued at a CDA price of over Rs 2 billion, for a mere Rs 62 million, proving after a long wait that a 1997 NAB reference against Zardari [...]



I-16 Sector in Islamabad Forms for Plots, www.cda.gov.pk

By Sher Ali • Sep 21st, 2009 • Category: Misc

Capital Development Authority (CDA) of Islamabad has at last started expanding the Islamabad once again at the rapid speed and they have now started a new sector by the name of I-16 which is just 4km from the new airport near Fateh Jang, which is also near to the G.T Road.
Forms are available from the [...]



O’ Mr. President (Thrown)

By Ayaz Ali • Sep 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Dear Mr. Musharraf: Just till a year after you took office, I was your greatest fan but after that, I never was! Finally, a year ago the public made you give away your charge, into the hands of the public themselves, the same public, which cried their eyes out. I will, in this content, therefore [...]



Noorani’s New Hunt : Sher Afzal and Journalists and Their Plots

By Salman Mugsi • Jul 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Muhammad Ahmad Noorani of The News is on corruption hunting spree and he is doing that with gusto and relish. His successive block buster scandal-busting stories are remarkable in the way that he touches the taboos. From Fazlur Rehman to Nazir Naji to now Sher Afzal, he is sparkling on the investigative journalism in Pakistan.
Following [...]



To The Attention of Chief Justice

By Anwar Jalal • Jun 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Through this columns  I  would  like  to bring  the notice of honourable Chief  Justice  of Pakistan  the fraud that is being done on  by numerous private  housing  plots  schemes across the  country. Fraudulent people  form a company  with some  name and launch the  scheme through advertisements in media  which  are often attractive  for  low income [...]