KARACHI: A division bench of the Sindh High Court has allowed the Defence Housing Authority( DHA) to not share the record of land with a court official until a single bench decides its application about the maintainability of a lawsuit challenging the misuse of cantonment land and land reclaimed from the sea. The suit filed by Farhan Wazir and five other plaintiffs, mostly residents of the DHA, had approached a single bench of the SHC under the Whistleblower Protection and Vigilance Commission O

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday said that its earlier interim restraining order for the Defence Housing Authority( DHA) from reclaiming further land from the shore and granting such land to anyone as well as creating a third-party interest would continue till Dec 1. When a single-judge bench headed by Justice Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan took up the matter for hearing again, some lawyers filed vakalatnama( power of attorney) for the DHA and other defendants and sought time to file comments. The

AGP Khan informed the court that steps had not been taken yet to provide compensation to the affectees of Nasla Tower and requested the Supreme Court to ensure the same.... At the outset of the hearing, Commissioner Iqbal Memon informed the court that five of the building's floors had been demolished and 400 labourers were working on the task.... " questioned the chief justice. The commissioner responded that the building's internal structure had been demolised and only the exterior could be s

KARACHI: No arrest has been made in connection with a criminal case registered against builder, owner and government officials regarding the illegal construction of 15-storey Nasla Tower as the pace of investigation appears to be slow, it emerged on Wednesday.... A police investigation team led by SP Altaf Hussain along with officials of the ACE visited the SBCA office in Civic Centre, met its senior officers and sought a list of those who were part of the authority when the layout plan of Nasl

[ You will] have to return them.... If we don't take them[ back] then someone else will.... You will return the lands," Justice Amin thundered....