{"id":17433,"date":"2015-11-17T18:13:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=17433"},"modified":"2017-12-11T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T07:41:13","slug":"ihc-halts-auction-of-five-star-hotel-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ihc-halts-auction-of-five-star-hotel-plots.html","title":{"rendered":"IHC halts auction of five-star hotel plots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad: <\/strong>The Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspended the auction of sites for five-star hotels, on November 13, and restrained the Capital Development Authority (CDA) from continuing with the auction, originally to be held on November 16-17, until the hearing next week.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news source, the particular of the sites, located in the Blue Area between Sectors F-9 and G-9, Murree Road, and the northern strip of E-11, was challenged by a petition filed by Advocate Arafat Ahmed, acting as a public interest litigant in his personal capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Ahmed said the CDA was auctioning off these sites to a \u201cblue-eyed party\u201d and offered the floor area very generously with permission to build 100-storey high buildings. Furthermore, the CDA had specifically inserted a clause that 20% of the land on these sites could be used for commercial purposes, simply to give the \u201cblue-eyed party\u201d an unfair advantage.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the authority had auctioned plots for building luxury hotels in the past. Many of these plots never saw hotels being built and were used for other purposes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspended the auction of sites for five-star hotels, on November 13, and restrained the Capital Development Authority (CDA) from continuing with the auction, originally to be held on November 16-17, until the hearing next week. According to a news source, the particular of the sites, located in the Blue Area between Sectors F-9 and G-9, Murree Road, and the northern strip of E-11, was challenged by a petition filed by Advocate Arafat Ahmed, acting as a public interest litigant in his personal capacity. Advocate Ahmed said the CDA was auctioning off these sites to a \u201cblue-eyed party\u201d and offered the floor area very generously with permission to build 100-storey high buildings. Furthermore, the CDA had specifically inserted a clause that 20% of the land on these sites could be used for commercial purposes, simply to give the \u201cblue-eyed party\u201d an unfair advantage. According to him, the authority had auctioned plots for building luxury hotels in the past. 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