{"id":61904,"date":"2020-02-25T11:52:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T06:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=61904"},"modified":"2020-02-25T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T06:54:48","slug":"nab-investigate-housing-societies-islamabad-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/nab-investigate-housing-societies-islamabad-lahore.html","title":{"rendered":"NAB to investigate housing societies in Islamabad, Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has announced its decision to launch an investigation into the alleged malpractices carried out by housing societies in Islamabad and Lahore, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/nab-expresses-satisfaction-over-lda-city-developmental-work-pace.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"NAB expresses satisfaction over LDA City developmental work pace (opens in a new tab)\">NAB expresses satisfaction over LDA City developmental work pace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To this effect, NAB Chairman Justice (retired) Javed Iqbal\nhas ordered the director generals (DGs) of the bureau\u2019s Rawalpindi and Lahore\ndivisions to launch a probe into reports of \u2018China Cutting\u2019 (slicing plots from\nparks and land earmarked for public amenities) in Islamabad societies, as well\nas against one housing project in Lahore found conducting marketing activity\nwithout the Lahore Development Authority (LDA)\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesperson for the anti-graft watchdog stated that the chairman had directed the NAB DG Rawalpindi to investigate the illegal housing societies in the capital city based on the pattern followed in Karachi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/nab-ordinance-2019-under-investigation-properties-to-be-valued-on-official-rates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"NAB Ordinance 2019: Under-investigation properties to be valued on official rates (opens in a new tab)\">NAB Ordinance 2019: Under-investigation properties to be valued on official rates<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chairman issued the said directives after taking notice of\nseveral complaints regarding housing societies scamming people by selling plots\nor files without having their projects\u2019 layout plans approved, or receiving\nNo-Objection Certificates (NOCs), from the Capital Development Authority (CDA).\n\nMoreover, Justice (retired) Iqbal directed the\nNAB DG Lahore to investigate a housing society in the city that had commenced\nwith its advertisement campaign without having any land and its layout plan\napproved from the LDA. To this effect, the NAB spokesman stated that the\nchairman had sought action against the LDA officers concerned for showing\nnegligence in this matter.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has announced its decision to launch an investigation into the alleged malpractices carried out by housing societies in Islamabad and Lahore, a news source reported. Read: NAB expresses satisfaction over LDA City developmental work pace To this effect, NAB Chairman Justice (retired) Javed Iqbal has ordered the director generals (DGs) of the bureau\u2019s Rawalpindi and Lahore divisions to launch a probe into reports of \u2018China Cutting\u2019 (slicing plots from parks and land earmarked for public amenities) in Islamabad societies, as well as against one housing project in Lahore found conducting marketing activity without the Lahore Development Authority (LDA)\u2019s approval. A spokesperson for the anti-graft watchdog stated that the chairman had directed the NAB DG Rawalpindi to investigate the illegal housing societies in the capital city based on the pattern followed in Karachi. Read: NAB Ordinance 2019: Under-investigation properties to be valued on official rates The chairman issued the said directives after taking notice of several complaints regarding housing societies scamming people by selling plots or files without having their projects\u2019 layout plans approved, or receiving No-Objection Certificates (NOCs), from the Capital Development Authority (CDA). Moreover, Justice (retired) Iqbal directed the NAB DG Lahore to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":61259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15017],"tags":[319,20817,302,41,39,234,5280],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-cda","10":"tag-details-on-nab-to-investigate-housing-societies-in-islamabad-and-lahore","11":"tag-housing-societies","12":"tag-islamabad","13":"tag-lahore","14":"tag-lda","15":"tag-nab","16":"cat-15016-id","17":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NAB to investigate housing societies in Islamabad, Lahore - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has announced to launch an investigation into the alleged malpractices by housing societies in Islamabad &amp; 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