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November 2011

ISLAMABAD: 14 former ministers seek Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf ride

A group of over a dozen former federal ministers, including Jahangir Khan Tareen, Ishaq Khakwani and Owais Khan Laghari, have showed their willingness to make an alliance with Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI).

They will formally announce this decision soon after Eidul Azha in a press conference with PTI chairman Imran Khan, sources informed The Nation. A meeting between PTI Central Secretary General Dr Arif Alvi and Jahangir Khan Tareen is also scheduled on the third day of Eid.Read More »ISLAMABAD: 14 former ministers seek Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf ride

Beyond Minar-i-Pakistan

By Hazir Jalees

With a single stroke, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf’s successful jalsa at Minar-i-Pakistan last Sunday changed Pakistan’s political landscape. To begin with, it is no longer possible for Imran Khan’s detractors to dismiss him as a talk-show leader with no mass following among voters. What he says on national issues carries more weight now and the challenge posed by PTI to the entrenched political parties will have to be taken more seriously. Other than giving a definitive boost to the party, the massive public meeting also made waves in the stagnating pool of democracy that had begun to lose its appeal to a large number of citizens and seemed to be stuck in the same old groove of partisan mudslinging and pointless point scoring. Those who attended the jalsa came back impressed not just by the number, but also the diversity and enthusiasm of the participants. So, where does PTI go from here?Read More »Beyond Minar-i-Pakistan

LDA finally decides to launch two new housing schemes in Lahore

 Lahore Development Authority (LDA) decided on Monday to launch two new housing schemes in the provincial metropolis, namely LDA City and LDA Avenue-II, by issuing a formal notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
The decision was taken in a meeting of LDA`s governing body that was presided over by authority`s chairman and DCO Ahad Cheema.

Participants in the meeting decided that after acquiring land from the landowners and developing the aforementioned schemes, the LDA would give incentive to them by returning 30 per cent developed plots of their total surrendered land.

The LDA would also charge only 50 per cent of the total development cost against the landowners` developed plots. This amount would be received at the time of handing over possession of the plots to them, they decided.

A topographic survey of both the schemes had been completed and the schemes` area had been declared as an LDA controlled area through a notification issued on May 25, 2011.Read More »LDA finally decides to launch two new housing schemes in Lahore