DHA Phase 9 / Gandhara — What DHA's Own Paperwork Actually Shows
Every payment plan, launch date and pre-launch price attached to this name traces to a dealer page. DHA's own website does not name it. Here is what we could and could not confirm.
Search “DHA Gandhara” or “DHA Phase 9 Islamabad” and every result on the first page is a dealer, a marketing site or a Facebook post. None of them is DHA's own website. That is not proof the project is fake — DHA has genuinely opened new phases before without much fanfare — but it is a reason to check DHA's own paperwork before treating a payment plan as real, and that is what this page does.
What the record actually says
| Fact | What the source says |
|---|---|
| DHA's own phase list | dhai-r.com.pk/phase-list/ lists Phase I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Nothing else. No Phase 8, no Phase 9, no “Gandhara”, read 3 Sep 2026. |
| DHA's own price sheet | DHA publishes a fortnightly Price Valuation Benchmarking sheet (PVBM_1Sep_2026.pdf, 21 pages, covering 1–15 Sep 2026): Phases I–VI residential, Margalla Enclave, Phase VI certificates, Phases I–VI commercial, Margalla Orchards, DHA VII commercial (balloted and non-balloted) and Phase I/II/V apartments. No Phase 9 and no Gandhara section anywhere in it. |
| RDA register | No “DHA Phase 9” or “Gandhara” entry, under any spelling, on either of RDA's two public lists, read 3 Sep 2026. |
| A different, registered “Gandhara” | RDA's approved list carries “Gandhara City (Revised & Extension)”, Pind Nasrullah & Ghurbal, “revised & extension lop is technically approved” (updated 3 Feb 2026). FBR's Rawalpindi table separately values “Gandhara City Pind Nasrala” and “Pind Nasrala Gandhara”, and FBR's Islamabad-side ladder separately values a “Gandhara City” at Rs 10,500–11,200/sq yd. None of these is DHA's Phase 9 / Gandhara brand — they are a different registered scheme sharing only a name. |
| DHA's own precedent | ProPakistani, 19 Sep 2022: DHA's own 2022 notification called an advertisement for “DHA Islamabad (New Phase near Islamabad Airport)” “entirely a fraud”, stating DHAI-R had announced no such launch and issued no files to dealers for it. |
Three separate things share the word “Gandhara” in this corridor: DHA's marketing brand for its unconfirmed Phase 9, RDA's registered “Gandhara City (Revised & Extension)”, and FBR's own “Gandhara City” valuation rows. Treat them as three different things until someone shows you a document proving otherwise.
What we are deliberately not printing. Dealer pages quote pre-launch payment plans, plot-size lists and a launch date “expected on or around 14 August 2026”. That date has passed; we found no official DHA announcement confirming a launch as of 3 Sep 2026. None of those figures traces to a DHA document, so we are not repeating them here — not even as an indicative range. Separately, dealer material names Army Welfare Trust Housing Society (an RDA illegal-list entry at Wanni, Poor, Paswani, Jando) as a Gandhara partner. We could not establish that this RDA entry and DHA Phase 9 are the same land or the same legal entity, and we are not asserting it.
What FBR values it at — the number that decides your tax
Advance tax under §236K and §236C is computed on FBR’s notified value, not on what you pay. Almost nobody publishes these per area, so here they are, with the notification they come from.
| Category | Notified value |
|---|---|
| “DHA Phase 9” / “DHA Gandhara” | No row exists under any spelling in either FBR table we checked — the 17,541-line Rawalpindi table (S.R.O. 1728(I)/2024) or the ICT ladder (S.R.O. 644(I)/2026). |
| “Gandhara City Pind Nasrala” (Rawalpindi table — a different scheme) | Commercial on road Rs 16,760.5/sq ft · residential off road Rs 8,379.8/sq ft |
| “Pind Nasrala Gandhara” (Rawalpindi table — a different scheme) | Commercial on road Rs 787.2/sq ft · residential off road Rs 375.5/sq ft |
| “Gandhara City” (ICT ladder — a different scheme) | Rs 10,500–11,200/sq yd |
If a seller quotes any of the last three rows as “DHA Gandhara's FBR value”, they are quoting a different, unrelated scheme's tax valuation. There is no FBR row for DHA Phase 9 to quote. Work your own number on the plot cost calculator.
Asking prices — what is listed, and what that is worth knowing
| Size | Asking range | Source, and what it is |
|---|---|---|
| Any size, “DHA Phase 9” or “Gandhara” | No verified resale price | Every figure in circulation is a dealer pre-launch marketing claim, not a market price, and we are not repeating those numbers. What is measurable: Zameen's own location record for “DHA Defence Phase 9” carried 138 listings on 3 Sep 2026 — 73 of them Plot Files and 65 Residential Plots. Files outnumbering plots on a brand with no confirmed DHA launch is itself the useful fact. |
We would rather publish nothing than print a dealer's pre-launch figure as a price.
The honest part
- The core risk is simple: DHA's own website does not confirm this phase exists. No phase list entry, no price sheet section, no FBR valuation.
- DHA has a documented precedent of disowning airport-corridor phase marketing. Its own 2022 notification called a near-identical “new phase near the airport” advertisement fraudulent and said no files had been issued to dealers.
- A majority of what is being traded is a file, not a plot — 73 of 138 listings on Zameen. A file with no confirmed launch is a queue position for a project that has not been shown to exist yet.
- The Army Welfare Trust connection is unverified. We could not confirm it names the same land as this scheme, and we are not treating it as confirmed.
What to ask before you pay
- “Show me the DHA notification or allotment letter, with its reference number.” Not a marketing company's brochure.
- “Is this file issued by DHA itself, or by a private marketing company?” Ask in writing.
- “Which of DHA's confirmed Phases I–VII is this actually adjacent to?” Compare against our DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi page for what DHA does confirm.
- “What happens to my payment if DHA never launches this phase?” Get the refund terms in writing before you pay anything.
Against Bahria Enclave, plainly
DHA's confirmed phases — covered on our DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi page — are a mature, expensive, liquid market with a documented fortnightly price sheet. Phase 9 / Gandhara is, on the evidence we could find on 3 Sep 2026, not yet that. Bahria Enclave's approval and its problems are both a matter of public CDA record; DHA Phase 9's existence, on DHA's own site, is not yet a matter of record at all.
If the appeal is the DHA name at an airport-corridor price, that is precisely the pattern DHA itself warned about in 2022. Wait for DHA's own confirmation, or buy where the paperwork already exists.
The rest of the city, read the same way
Same four things on every one: CDA’s register badge, the notices attached to it, FBR’s notified value, and dated asking prices.
- DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi
- Naval Anchorage Islamabad
- Zaraj Housing Scheme
- B-17 Multi Gardens
- G-13, G-14 and G-15
- Gulberg Greens & Residencia
- Bani Gala
- Lehtrar Road & Simly Dam Road
- Chak Shahzad
- Bahria Town Rawalpindi
- Park View City Islamabad
- F-15 and E-16
- Faisal Town & Faisal Hills
- Top City-1
- Capital Smart City
- Mumtaz City
- Blue World City
- Eighteen Islamabad
- Fazaia Housing Scheme, Tarnol
And the story that runs through all of them: CDA’s 2025–26 enforcement wave.
Plots available in every Bahria Enclave sector — and we buy as well as sell
From Sector A’s finished streets to Sector O’s entry tickets — 5 Marla to 4 Kanal, file to allotment to possession — we keep live options in all sixteen sectors, plus DHA Margalla Enclave ballots, files and resales. Buying, selling, or exchanging: one WhatsApp message gets you today’s real options, with verification built in before any token moves.
DHA Phase 9 / Gandhara, without the brochure
As of 3 September 2026 we could not confirm it is. DHA's own phase list (dhai-r.com.pk/phase-list/) names only Phases I through VII, and DHA's own fortnightly price sheet has sections for those phases plus Margalla Enclave and Margalla Orchards — nothing for a Phase 9 or a 'Gandhara'. Every payment plan, price and launch date attached to the name traces to dealer marketing, not to a DHA document.
No — and this is the single most common confusion in this market. 'Gandhara City' is a separately registered scheme: RDA's own register lists 'Gandhara City (Revised & Extension)' as technically approved, and FBR values a 'Gandhara City' in two different tables. None of these is DHA's marketing brand for its unconfirmed Phase 9. They share a name and nothing else that we could establish.
Because FBR only assigns a notified value to land it has been told to value under a specific notification, and DHA Phase 9 does not appear under any spelling in either the Rawalpindi table or the Islamabad ladder we checked. If a seller quotes you an FBR rate for 'DHA Gandhara', ask them to show you the exact row — it is almost certainly the unrelated 'Gandhara City' entry.
Yes. In a notification reported by ProPakistani on 19 September 2022, DHA itself called an advertisement for 'DHA Islamabad (New Phase near Islamabad Airport)' entirely a fraud, stating it had announced no such launch and issued no files to dealers for it. That is the closest documented precedent for exactly this situation.
Jaldi mat karein. DHA ki apni website par is naam ki koi phase list ya price sheet mojood nahi (3 Sep 2026 tak), aur jo bhi payment plan ya price dikhai ja rahi hai wo sab dealer marketing hai, DHA ka document nahi. Pehle DHA se khud confirm karwa lein ke ye phase official taur par launch hui hai — is se pehle sirf file lena ek unconfirmed project mein queue mein khara hona hai, plot nahi.
Been shown a DHA Phase 9 / Gandhara file?
Send a photo of whatever paper you have. You get a straight read on whether it is a DHA document or a marketing company's own printout — before you pay anything on it.