Dhaka those days was still a small town. It was old Dhaka centric. The train station, the river traffic terminal, the main trade and commercial activity and important government offices were in old Dhaka. The new Dhaka was sparsely populated and was just coming up. Only a few people lived in Dhanmandi, Gulshan, and Banani. Motijheel commercial area had only two or three big
A file photo of a closed cinema house. White Star
KARACHI: Our families are facing hunger and all kinds of other deprivations. If other businesses are allowed to function with restrictions, why can’t the government reopen cinema houses?
This was the question raised by dozens of cinema workers who had come to the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday afternoon to inform the government of Sindh about their plight.
Led by Arif Butt, a labourer who works for Gulistan Cinema, they gathered outside the club carrying a giant banner and chanting slogans. Talking to Dawn, Mr Butt said: “All cinema houses are closed. Our livelihoods depend on them. Cinemas in other parts of the country are open. It’s not an issue [that we can raise] with cinema owners because they will release salaries only if the cinemas are open. Now that they’re closed, we’re dying from hunger.”
Land grabbing: former PML-N minister arrested
Dastagir is accused of occupying prime land in Gujranwala
The department owns around 49,470 kanals of which over 10,000 kanals have been encroached by the land grabbing mafia.. STOCK IMAGE
LAHORE:
The Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has booked former Federal Minister and leader of Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawaz (PML-N) from Gujranwala, Ghulam Dastagir Khan in illegal land grabbing case.
The case has been registered on a reference filed by Deputy Commissioner Gujranwala. Khuram has been accused of occupying a prime land of Tehsil Council Sadar Gujranwala and provincial government measuring up to one kanal 10 marlas since 1967.
In the reference filed by the DC Gujranwala, he has requested to DG ACE to start criminal proceedings against Ghulam Dastagir for illegally occupying precious state land and constructing Gulistan Cinema on the grabbed land without any building plan and government officers including Tahir Gujjar MO Plan
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December 19, 2020
LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) arrested former PML-N MNA Mudassar Nahra in a land grabbing case on Friday.
An ACE team along with a heavy contingent of police arrested Nahra from his residence for illegally occupying over 267 Kanal state land in Noshera Virkan. In a reference, the Gujranwala DC had requested the ACE DG to initiate criminal proceedings against 15 people, including Sultan Nahra, Mudassar Nahra, his brother and sitting MNA Azhar Nahra and officers of the revenue department for illegally occupying and cultivating state land. He said penal rent amounting to Rs24,050,574 should also be recovered from the Nahra family for illegally occupying and cultivating state land.
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December 19, 2020
LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) arrested former PML-N MNA Mudassar Nahra in a land grabbing case on Friday.
An ACE team along with a heavy contingent of police arrested Nahra from his residence for illegally occupying over 267 Kanal state land in Noshera Virkan. In a reference, the Gujranwala DC had requested the ACE DG to initiate criminal proceedings against 15 people including Sultan Nahra, Mudassar Nahra, his brother and sitting MNA Azhar Nahra and officers of the revenue department for illegally occupying and cultivating state land. He said penal rent amounting to Rs24,050,574 should also be recovered from the Nahra family for illegally occupying and cultivating state land.