lahore - At a time when the business community is striving to accelerate economic activity in the country, the bureaucracy is all out to decelerate it and a Punjab Local Government notification dated April 5, 2013 is a classic example to this regard.The LCCI President Farooq Iftikhar said that an ...

I had heard of land grabbers and land mafia but I always thought that this happened on a larger scale and not to individuals or one house. Unfortunately, I found this out the hard way. I had a house built in Mozia Churharpal, district Rawalpindi a few years back, my brother lived there and now it ...

Lahore - After 5 years of stagnant market, several high-end areas of Pakistan real estate sector recorded incredible hikes in 2012. According to Data released by Zameen.com, the General Election 2013 failed to bring the property rates down in most of the posh developments in Pakistan. The portal ...

World Intellectual Property Day was celebrated on April 26, with the theme ‘Creativity: The Next Generation’. Economy of advanced countries is based on creativity, innovation and advanced knowledge of science and technology, but in third world countries, like Pakistan, creative ...

ISLAMABADThe World Intellectual Property Day (IP) 2013 was observed on Friday across the globe including Pakistan with its theme ‘Creativity: The Next Generation’.The event was established by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2000 to raise awareness of how patents, ...

FAISALABAD - A seminar on” Intellectual Property Rights” was held in collaboration with the National Textile University, the Pakistan Scientific & Technology Information Centre and the Pakistan Science Foundation, Islamabad. The seminar was chaired by Dr Muhammad Akram Sheikh, the ...

FAISALABAD - A seminar on” Intellectual Property Rights” was held in collaboration with the National Textile University, the Pakistan Scientific & Technology Information Centre and the Pakistan Science Foundation, Islamabad. The seminar was chaired by Dr Muhammad Akram Sheikh, the ...

LAHORE (PR) – Zameen.com, Pakistan’s No.1 Property Listing and Real Estate portal has signed up with several international portals dedicated to classified and property listings, including global players such as OLX, Trovit & Mitula.comThe strategic move now connects Pakistan’s ...

 A man gunned down three including his real brother and two women over property dispute here in Karak late Friday night.According to police the accused hailing from Teri area, tehsil Bandha of Karak, who was in disputes with real brother over property barged into his house on late night and ...

MANILA  - As a Philippine property boom gathers pace, even Paris Hilton, Donald Trump and high-fashion house Versace are getting a piece of the action.The good times are into their fourth year, fuelled by steady economic growth, Western firms offshoring jobs to the Philippines, the buying ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the restoration of law and order situation and the protection of lives and property of the citizens in the metropolitan city is the priority of the government. This he said during a meeting with a delegation comprising Sindh Cabinet members here at ...

NANKANA SAHIB - Christian community is an integral part of Pakistani society and the community people are as patriotic as any other Pakistani. Christians have played a pivotal role side-by-side their Muslim countrymen in the struggle for the creation of the country. But they have been meted out ...

LAHORE – The representatives of an organisation working for conservation of heritage have revealed that the original property belonging to Hazrat Mian Mir, a famous Sufi saint who resided in Lahore, was located in Anarkali Bazaar. “The property has now been turned into a shoe ...

LAHORE – A man shot dead his 28-year-old son over property dispute in Shera Kot area late on Monday night, police said.Muhammad Gulzar killed his son Muhammad Imtiaz at their residence in Yousaf Nagar and later surrendered himself to the police. Further investigations are under away.fake ...

LAHORE – Unidentified motorcyclists shot dead a 50-year-old man and his second wife in broad daylight in the densely populated Mughalpura area and fled away. Police said the deceased had developed a dispute over a property with two  parties over the sale of his house. He was also wanted ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The Punjab Privatization Board (PPB) has announced to sell over seven mega state-owned properties worth Rs1 billion by the end of the current month while their auction will be held next week. PPB Secretary M Aashiq Ch talking to The Nation said that the properties are ...

LAHORE - An accountability court on Wednesday extended, by another 15 days, the physical remand of Adil Saleem, the son-in-law of ex-MPA Iqbal Tikka who has allegedly misappropriated million of rupees in the Qasr-e-Zauq property scam. The court also ordered the Punjab authorities of the NAB to ...

MULTAN - PPP Human Rights Wing warned on Wednesday the Punjab government to immediately stop selling out public properties on throwaway price in South Punjab otherwise a massive protest will be launched against the issue. Addressing a press conference here, consultant of the Ministry of Human ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court Tuesday observed that the rights of eunuchs to life, property and dignity are also protected in 1973 Constitution therefore there should be no discrimination with them and all the government functionaries at federal and provincial levels are bound not only to provide ...

ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court, Wednesday, allowed a committee formed to decide modalities for the disposal of the property of the main accused Sh Afzal in the Haris Steel Mills case and proceed in the matter even if his representative does not participate in the process. A three-member bench ...

ISLAMABAD Influential property moguls from powerful land mafia in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are reportedly using pressure tactics to get the Government-owned lands vacated from the Afghan refugees for land grabbing motives. Repo-rts receiv-ed from Peshawar, Nowsh-era and Chars-adda, the cities that have ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Chinas banking regulator has confirmed it asked banks to conduct stress tests on property sector loans, but said the move did not signal any policy changes, boosting market confidence on Friday. Earlier media reports suggested that regulators had ordered lenders to test the possible ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan Youth Hostel Association top officials are threatened with possible grab of Pakistan Youth Hostel properties from unscrupulous persons, across the country. This view was taken at the PYHA Executive Committee meeting that met here with Prof Anwar Hussain Siddiqui, PYHA President ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia Saturday clamped down on foreigners buying property after complaints that a rapid influx of Asian money had helped make its housing among the most expensive in the world. The govt reimposed tough rules relaxed in 2008 that say temporary residents need permission to buy ...

RAWALPINDI - The Excise and Taxation Department (ETD) recovery team collected Rs 27,54,000 out of the total Rs. 31,00,000 outstanding dues of Property Tax from the owners of 35 shops located at Fawara Chowk, Raja Bazar, here on Thursday. According to details, ETD Rawalpindi Director Ahmed Saeed ...

ISLAMABAD- The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered to confiscate the assets of the owner of Haris Steel Mills and his family for not depositing Rs. 9 billion loans to the Bank of Punjab (BoP) here on Wednesday. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chauhdry ...

HOLLYWOOD beauty Jessica Alba has apologised to her fans in Oklahoma, after a video of her plastering posters on public property in the states capital was made public. The Honey star pasted shark-conservation posters indiscriminately on public property including electrical boxes and a bridge, and ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said the government is concerned about ensuring intellectual property rights in the society because they stimulate innovations and creativity. Intellectual property rights are everyones responsibility as counterfeit goods negatively affect ...

LAHORE - An 18-years old boy was allegedly shot dead while his younger brother was injured by their step father over a property dispute in Hanjarwal police limits on Saturday. The deceased Riaz Ahmad and his brother Mushtaq Ahmad had a dispute with their stepfather Khalil Ahmad over the ownership ...

DASKA - A great rush of the visitors from all walks of life showed enthusiasm in property exhibition namely "Property Expo-2008" mutually organised by the Daily Nawa-i-Waqt and daily The Nation in active collaboration with OTBS at a local hotel in Sialkot here. A large number of the ...