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Posts Tagged ‘DHA’

Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, Mirza Ishtiaq Baig versus Waqar Mannoo

By Haris Hashmi • Apr 19th, 2010 • Category: Misc

Former APTMA chairman and industrialist Waqar Mannoo and the Baig brothers — Adviser to Ministry of Industries for Textile Dr Ikhtiar Baig and his younger brother Mirza Ishtiaq Baig — have lodged cases against each other for torture and use of abusive language.
SHO, Drakhshan Police Station, Inspector Haji Sanaullah, said Waqar [...]



Avatar Screening at DHA Cinema

By The Partylicious • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Bilal Mukhtar Events and Nirala Sweets joined hand to bring the most awaited wonder by James Cameron: AVATAR.



DHA and Malik Riaz of Bahria Town

By Haris Hashmi • Dec 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Before the Defence Committee of the National Assembly is the Defence Housing Authority Ordinance 2005, issued by — you’ve guessed it — Gen Musharraf. The Defence Ministry wants this ordinance to be turned into an act of parliament.
What on earth for? DHA Islamabad is a housing society which has entered into a partnership with Malik [...]



Let there be rain

By Adnan Farooqui • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Karachiites breathed a sigh of relief when it was announced that a rain system over Madhya Pradesh was heading towards the city of Karachi and heavy rains were expected for the next couple of days. Now call it more of a norm in Pakistan, that the predictions put out by the institutions is hardly believed [...]



DHA Bachat Bazaar

By Guest Blogger • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: Misc

The arrival of Ramazan has apparently given the fruits and vegetables sellers at the ‘D.H.A Bachat Bazaar’ the license to openly fleece people by forcing them to pay three times more than the prices fixed by the City District Government Karachi (CDGK).
It was observed that the CDGK price lists were safely tucked away at one [...]



Malik Riaz : Backdoor Channel Between PML(N) and PPP

By Ghazala Khan • Mar 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

If you are in Islamabad/Rawalpindi and have ever tried to purchase a property in any colony, it is quite highly unlikely that you haven’t come across the name of Malik Riaz, who was once a petty government employee, then a contractor and now a real estate tycoon in the twin cities and even beyond.
Whether it [...]