Women entrepreneurs and rural women here Friday displayed a colorful Spring Fiesta with a variety of their handmade products and fashion accessories for women of all ages.
The 3-day show brought products created by the rural craftswomen with items related to women and children including dresses, handbags, home textiles, garments, nail art, jewellery, interior decors, herbal cosmetics, formal and casual wears to provide respectful earning for the rural class and create a perfect extravaganza for buyers in a colorful way.
The products have been created by the craftswomen while the exhibition was organized with the aim of empowering women and their communities by empowering them economically, said Lubna Shahbaz, organizer of the show. The crafteswomen are trained in vocational centers and some are self-taught with the skills of creating items according to the fashion needs in order to get better sales and income generation. “Such shows create better environment of earning for women who seem reluctant in selling their products through middle man and encourage employment for low income families in the field of garment making and traditional embroideries which are modernized into contemporary designs,” Lubna told APP. It is a way to improve the socio-economic development of needy women in Pakistan with the objective of creating and sustaining self-reliance among poor households, she said. Among the total of 27 stalls, display of precious stone jewellery, fashion dresses and embroidered fabrics is the main attraction for females.
3,395 personnel of FC, Rangers deployed in ICT: Around 3,395 personnel of Frontier Constabulary (FC) and Rangers at present are deployed to ensure fool-proof security in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT).
Of the total, there are 1,547 personnel of FC and 1,848 of Rangers who are deployed in Islamabad.
A senior official at Ministry of Interior while giving year-wise break up of expenditure said Rs 1.528 billion were incurred on the officers and personnel of Frontier Constabulary and Rangers deployed in Islamabad since 2007.
As per details, these expenditure are Rs 79.731 million in 2007, Rs 114.327 million in 2008, Rs 533.24 million in 2009, Rs 355.52 million in 2010 and Rs 445.66 million incurred during 2011 for the security purpose. The official said a case for creation of 2500 posts in ICT police for performing security duties in place of FC and Rangers is also under process.
Giving details about the number of persons working in FC and coast-guards in Balochistan, he said these are 48928 Frontier Corps 2057 Pakistan Coast Guards personnel in the province and during last three years more than Rs 27 billion have been incurred on FC and Rs 1.6 billion on Pakistan Coast Guards.
Zamurad Khan urges philanthropists to help orphans: Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal Managing Director (MD) Zamurad Khan on Friday urged the philanthropists to come forward for helping orphan children of ‘Pakistan Sweet Homes’. He said the orphan children being taken into care in ‘Pakistan Sweet Homes” will change the destiny of the nation. As many as 2,800 orphan children have been taken into care by Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) under its ‘Pakistan Sweet Homes’ project. The children are being provided all possible facilities with quality education, food and residence. He stated this while talking to media here in Cinepex Cinema where about 400 children of three ‘Pakistan Sweet homes’ of Rawalpindi and Islamabad watched a movie.
