Tag: Support

ANKARA - Pakistan and Turkey voiced support for initiatives to stabilise conflict-torn Afghanistan on Wednesday, including efforts for dialogue with the Taliban.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Turkish President Abdullah Gul made the pledges in response to a question on whether Ankara had agreed to host a representation office for the Taliban and whether Islamabad would be ready to help any dialogue process.
"2011 is a very critical year for Afghanistan... as the foreign

KARACHI - Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed has sought public support for the people suffering from Parkinson's disease. In a statement issued on the World Parkinson's Disease Day 2011 on Monday, he said that in the country, there are 500,000 registered patients of Parkinson's disease - a degenerative and age related disorder. The minister assured that all possible assistance would be extended to the sufferers at government facilities.
He, however, reminded that most

PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and academicians from the Peshawar University and its affiliated organs have endorsed the decision regarding the HEC dissolution. Backing the provincial autonomy in accordance with the 18th Amendment, the PK government made it clear that no problems and hardships would arise as a result of the HEC dissolution.
The Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa chief minister Saturday chaired a meeting of the vice chancellors of various universities. The

ISLAMABAD - The family of ailing stage drama actor and comedian, Mastana on Saturday sought financial assistance and support to get his expensive medical treatment.
Murtaza Hassan alias Mastana has proved his acting skill in every field of acting, but now he is ill and needs help of his admirers.
Appealing for the help at a news channel, Mastana's son, Sajid Hassan said his father has been getting medical treatment in Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur but our family cannot afford

LONDON - The PPP and the PML-N on Friday agreed to join hands to strengthen democracy and democratic institutions in the country. The leadership of both parties made the pledge when Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani called on PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif at his Park Lane apartment in London to inquire after him following a heart surgery.
Nawaz has been resting since the surgery performed last month. Both leaders had an hour-long meeting and discussed political and economic situation

TUNIS - Actress and goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie appealed on Tuesday for international support for people fleeing the conflict in Libya and for increased aid for those inside the country. Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the UN refugee agency UNHCR who visited the Libyan-Tunisian border, said recent arrivals from Libya had told her about heavy fighting and assaults.
More than 400,000 people have fled Libya to Tunisia, Egypt, Niger, Algeria, Chad and Sudan since February

ISLAMABAD - Hundreds of students of various universities, professors, and employees of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Tuesday took to the streets against the ruling PPP for its decision to devolve HEC to provinces.
Carrying national flags in their hands, students and professors gathered outside HEC, where dozens of HEC employees joined them to protest against the proposed devolution. JUI-F Senator Azam Khan Swati also visited the venue to express solidarity with the

FAISALABAD - Production organisations like Interloop Limited Faisalabad are undoubtedly playing a vital role in the progress and prosperity of Pakistan, said Australia's High Commissioner Timothy George Spencer during his visit to Interloop Spinning & Hosiery Division, Khurrianwala, and Faisalabad along with his delegation.
He visited all the departments, including high tech spinning unit, effluent treatment plant, knitting, and dye house & finishing. Chief Operating Officer

TUNIS - Actress and goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie appealed on Tuesday for international support for people fleeing the conflict in Libya and for increased aid for those inside the country.
Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR who visited the Libyan-Tunisian border, said recent arrivals from Libya had told her about heavy fighting, harassment and assaults.
More than 400,000 people have fled Libya to Tunisia, Egypt, Niger, Algeria,

ISLAMABAD - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) warned the government on Sunday that if rising incidents of extortion in Karachi and increases in the price of petroleum products every month were not stopped, it would be extremely difficult for the MQM to support the government in the upcoming budget, a source privy to the meeting between a MQM delegation and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ministers told Pakistan Today.
The MQM delegation comprising MQM Deputy Convener Farooq

LAHORE - The Senior Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa has said that business organisations, associated with agriculture sector, should extend practical cooperation in order to play an effective role for increasing agriculture production and achieving self-sufficiency. He said that prices of fertiliser, seed and agri-equipment have increased due to imposition of sales tax on agriculture products, which will dampen agriculture production. The Punjab

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tuesday assured full support to Bahrain in the efforts to restore peace in the troubled country which was facing public uprising against the government policies.
The assurance was conveyed to Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa who held separate meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar.
During a meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari,

LAHORE - Chinese Ambassador Li Jian Monday said his country wanted a strong agricultural base and prosperous farmers in Pakistan, adding that no one could stop Pakistan's farming sector to grow. Addressing a ceremony organised in connection with completion of the Auriga Group's ten years, he praised Allama Muhammad Iqbal who had said that Chinese were not sleeping and preparing themselves to become a strong nation.
He promised to ensure that the Pak-China relations moved further

KARACHI - Standard Chartered Pakistan and Central Depository Company of Pakistan Limited (CDC) have jointly launched a new and unique initiative that offers automated and standardised processing of securities settlement for Asset Management Companies (AMCs) across Pakistan. Standard Chartered Pakistan has successfully integrated its state of the art electronic banking channel Straight2bank (Access) with Central Depository Company's Fund Management System (FMS), providing a dynamic

KARACHI - Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar, who is also chairman of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), pledged the government's full support to energy conservation measures and for the protection of environment.
Mukhtar was speaking on Saturday at PIA's joining ceremony of Earth Hour campaign. As part of the Earth Hour campaign, all non-essential lights at the PIA buildings and the PIA business centres were switched off for one hour, between 8:30pm and 9:30pm.
Earth

DHAKA - Pakistan's cricket team enjoyed massive crowd support at the Sher-e- Bangla National Stadium Mirpur, Dhaka, as it convincingly beat West Indies by 10 wickets in first quarter final of the 2011 World Cup. The 25,000-capacity stadium was fully charged and supported only one team and it turned out to be a 'home game' for Pakistan. Afridi's men face a different prospect as they head for the semi-final in Mohali, India, but for the moment they were thankful to the fans.
"We

LAHORE - Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) is supporting to enhance women entrepreneurs at national and international level as women have great potential in business sector but they need their efforts to be recognised and channeled properly.
The authority's CEO Tariq Iqbal Puri stated this in a joint meeting of the FPCCI (Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry) Regional Standing Committees on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) and Special Education