Tag: Lauds

KARACHI - All Pakistan Newspapers Society congratulates its President Hameed Haroon, Syed Faseih Iqbal and Najam Sethi for the highest civil award, Hilal-e-Imtiaz being awarded by the president of Pakistan today, said a press statement issued here on Tuesday.
APNS Secretary General Sarmad Ali has felicitated Hameed Haroon, Syed Faseih Iqbal and Najam Sethi for being conferred the highest civil award in recognition of their services rendered to the profession of journalism. The

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken concrete measures for promotion of medical education, welfare of doctors and provision of best medical facilities to the people, Punjab Assembly (PA) Speaker Rana Iqbal said on Saturday. He was addressing the 4th Convocation of the Post Graduate Medical Institute (PGMI).
The PA speaker said that the doors of medical education were opened for poor but talented students by abolishing seats of self finance. He said that the

ISLAMABAD - Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar on Thursday said Pakistan considers relations with China of utmost importance and appreciates its support for economic development.
She was talking to Minister of the International Department, Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) here at the Foreign Office. Issues pertaining to bilateral relations, regional and global issues of mutual interest were discussed.
The Minister highlighted the

LAHORE - Lahore Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Captain (r) Mobin on Thursday appreciated the performance of traffic wardens on the Eid Miladun Nabi to ensure smooth traffic flow. Around 450 policemen including seven deputy superintendents of police (DSP), 20 inspectors and 410 traffic wardens were deployed on various points in the provincial capital.
The CTO said that four special squads were constituted and wardens directed to show professional attitude and ensure smooth traffic

LAHORE - Pakistan coach Waqar Younis has received strong support from PCB chairman Ijaz Butt for his efforts to rebuild the national team following the loss of key players to controversies and scandals.
"I am very happy with what Waqar is doing. He has a plan to move forward and he has handled the team well despite the situation arising after the spot-fixing controversies and other issues," Butt said in Lahore. He said he had personally seen the good work done by Waqar.
"The

LAHORE - The Pakistan railways inaugurated a dry port on Friday and announced that it was a 'good omen' that a 60-container-train had reached the dry port of Prem Nagar because this was the first private sector container-train.
The PR in with collaboration with two private companies has made a landmark by creating the dry port of Prem Nagar, said PR Chairman Shahid Hussain Raja. He made these statements after the inauguration of the dry port. He said that there were few railways

KARACHI - The lawyers' fraternity, by and large, has welcomed the amendment in law granting civil courts the authority to hear property suits worth up to Rs 15 million.
"The previous bodies of the Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) and the Karachi Bar Association (KBA) reached at a joint decision regarding the jurisdiction of civil courts during my tenure as SHCBA president," Rasheed Razvi told Pakistan Today,
Razvi went on to explain that when the colonial judicial

LAHORE - Punjab Education Minister Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has stated that the provincial government under the sagacious leadership of Chief Minister Mr. Shahbaz Sharif has for the first time in the country's history introduced far-reaching reforms in education sector for improving quality of education and literacy rate to radically uplift socio-economic conditions of people.
He was addressing participants of one-day seminar on "Regional Economic Cooperation in South Asia"

LAHORE - The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Friday appreciated the Federal Government's move of withdrawing the increase in prices of petroleum products and termed it a bold step in the larger interest of the people.
In a statement issued here, the LCCI President Shahzad Ali Malik, Senior Vice President Sheikh Mohammad Arshad and Vice President Sohail Azhar said that the withdrawal in prices of petroleum products would not only give some relief to the inflation-hit

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the government is vigorously pursuing the recent progress made in a meeting of the EU foreign ministers, which granted market access to Pakistani goods into the European trade markets.
The President was hopeful that such steps would boost Pakistan's economy and address unemployment. According to the Presidency Spokesman, he said this while he was talking to the Chairman of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Ejaz