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December 2012

LAHORE: LDA set up new wing to monitor private housing societies

* March 31 set as final payment date for LDA Avenue-I allottees


In order to closely monitor the affairs of the approved private housing schemes in the city, Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Director General Ahad Khan Cheema on Wednesday set up a separate directorate, called Directorate of Estate Management (Private Housing Schemes), in the authority.

Headed by a director of general cadre, the directorate will function under the administrative control of Chief Metropolitan Planner of the LDA. It will prepare a proper land bank of the LDA properties and their disposal through auction in the private housing schemes. Read More »LAHORE: LDA set up new wing to monitor private housing societies

AFGHANISTAN-A DECEPTIVE IMPRESSION

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER

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While going through the details of suicide attack on Asadullah Khalid, the Intelligence Chief of Afghanistan, one feels that Khalid was strolling somewhere in a public park or enjoying a cup of hot Afghani Qahwa in a café along some deserted highway; he was not at a guesthouse used by the National Directorate of Security in a heavily guarded area of the capital Kabul. How could it had been possible for a suicide bomber to introduce himself as a peace messenger from Taliban and reach the Intelligence Chief deceiving all security check-points if Asadullah Khalid  were really at the National Directorate of Security. The incident no doubt puts a question mark at the abilities and talents of the Afghan security forces as well as at those of the NATO. The time when the US troops were stepping into the Afghan lands, the US authorities were of the opinion that Afghanistan is suffering badly at the hands of the terrorists and the Afghan security forces don’t have ability to counter the terrorist activities. That time they had assured the people of Afghanistan that the only aim of the US forces is to strengthen the Afghan security forces so that they might be able to counter the activities of the terrorists. Now at the end of 2012, the suicidal attack on the Intelligence Chief of Afghanistan is a proof that the Afghan security forces are still incapable of countering the terrorists. It means the situation would become horribly disastrous if the US forces say good-bye to the Afghan lands.Read More »AFGHANISTAN-A DECEPTIVE IMPRESSION

‘No religion group’ 3rd largest in the world

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NEW YORK: People with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world’s faiths, placing after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus.

 The study, based on extensive data for the year 2010, also showed Islam and Hinduism are the faiths mostly likely to expand in the future while Jews have the weakest growth prospects.Read More »‘No religion group’ 3rd largest in the world

LAHORE: LDA issues notices to building laws violators in 24 elite housing societies

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* Buildings sans approved plan get one week to regularise

After carrying out a detailed survey of approved private housing schemes in the provincial metropolis, the Town Planning Wing of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has issued notices to the owners who have constructed their houses without approval of building plans or in contravention of approved plans, for getting their constructions regularised within one week. Failure at the part of owners will invoke legal action against their buildings after this period.
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