Tag: Urged

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry Saturday urged investors to tap the full potential of tourism inside Pakistan and was blessed with rich potential for almost all types of tourism.
SAARC, Economic Cooperation Organisation and Organisation of theIslamic Conference could serve as appropriate platforms to improve tourism growth by linking member countries through cultural, religious, social, regional, socio- economic and educational ties Islamabad Chamber of

KARACHI - Pakistan Towel Manufacturers Association of Pakistan (PTMA) Chairman Syed Usman Ali has urged the government to strongly lobby the European Union to access the trade concessions announced by EU for Pakistan.
The TMA chief, in an issued statement, said that EU had announced the provision of tariff relief for Pakistani goods in view of the devastation wreaked by floods last year. The value added textile (VAT) sector selected for the relief package encompasses the towel

KARACHI - South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Chamber of Commerce and Industry former Chairman Tariq Sayeed has urged the Pakistani business community to extract maximum benefit from Chinese trade and investment friendly policies. He claimed that China has aimed at strengthening economies of Southeast and South Asian countries. China has offered many incentives and increased facilitation to exports from these countries and plans to boost investment throughout the

LAHORE - The Advisor to the Punjab Chief Minister Begum Zakia Shahnawaz has called upon the women parliamentarians to utilize their development funds to resolve women issues and end domestic violence on women. She was addressing a meeting titled 'One Day Consultation with Parliamentarians and Political Parties on Domestic Violence Bill in Punjab' organised by Mumkin EVAW Alliance on Thursday.
Zakia said that it was the duty of the women parliamentarians of national and

LAHORE - Speakers at an interfaith relations dialogue seminar demanded that the United States (US) administration and international powers should register cases against Terry Jones and his disciple Wayne Sapp under terror clauses for violating the UN charter and basic human rights to stop extremists in the future. They also demanded that the United Nations Organisation (UNO), US, human rights organizations and other international powers take immediate measures for necessary law making

LAHORE - Foundation for Rehabilitation & Education of Special Children (FRESH) Chairperson Ashba Kamran on Friday urged parents to screen infants at home to see the symptoms of learning difficulties.
She said that an early intervention was critical in changing the life of a child facing learning difficulties. News screening tests could now identify a child as young as six months of age, she added. According to the chairperson of FRESH, the earliest warning signs appeared at the

KARACHI - The elected representatives should facilitate and help out the poverty survey teams in their respective constituencies to achieve the desired results under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), said Sindh Culture Minister Sassui Palijo on Monday. She said this during a meeting with BISP Sindh Director General Akbar Aleem Shamim at her office. MPAs Amanullah Mehsood, Shama Arif Mithani, Farzana Baloch and Najma Saeed Chawla attended the meeting. Palijo - also the BISP

LAHORE - A seminar on Pak-China relations was held at Government College Township on Thursday. The college's principal Dr Ejaz Butt introduced the seminar's theme, which was on the year 2011 that has been declared as 'Pak-China friendship year', and said Pakistan needed to further strengthen ties with China.
He greeted the speakers which included senior political analysts and diplomats including Dr Farooq Hasanat, Col (r) Sikander Sultan Ghuman, Imran Iqbal, Dr Imtiaz Bukhari,

KARACHI - The Sindh government asked the World Bank (WB) on Wednesday to review its decision of not assisting in the development of the Thar coal energy project and provide support to make the scheme possible. Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah made this request during a meeting with a WB delegation at the Chief Minister's House.
The WB officials assured the chief minister that they would review the necessary modalities and further discuss the issue at another meeting to be held

LAHORE - The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Gohar Ejaz has urged the government to assure uninterrupted gas supply to the textile industry from March 01, 2011 onwards. He warned that the industry would suffer serious production losses if gas supply remains absent. He was leading a delegation of APTMA members in a meeting with SNGPL Managing Director Rashid Lone on Tuesday.
Gohar Ejaz expressed serious concerns over unprecedented gas supply suspension this

LAHORE - Former LCCI Senior Vice President Abdul Basit has urged the government to immediately constitute economic reforms committee with representation of stakeholders, including chambers of commerce and industry, trade bodies and political parties to urgently take up the challenges hampering the economic growth.
In a statement issued here on Tuesday, former LCCI SVP said that economic slowdown was not only causing unemployment but also creating law and order situation in the

FAISALABAD - FCCI executive member and former chairman of its committee for PIA, Zafar Iqbal Sarwar, has urged the national carrier to give a serious consideration to the demands of the business community of the third largest city of Pakistan that stands second in terms of revenue generation for the national exchequer.
The business community of Faisalabad is fed up with the repeated assurances of the Paklistan International Ailines (PIA) authorities that they will restore the

KARACHI - Patron-in-Chief/Founder President of Bin Qasim Association of Trade and Industry (BQATI) Mian Muhammed Ahmed has requested the officials of Port Qasim Authority (PQA) for a waiver of unjustified water charges, which are being taken from the consumers operating industry in Port Qasim.
A press release issued by the association cited the lack of positive and expressed disappointment at the lack of action on the part of PQA board officials. He stressed that BQATI has made a

NIAMEY - Niger's junta leader called on voters for a massive turnout on Monday to close the door on military rule by electing a new, civilian president to head one of the world's poorest countries. The Sahelian country's 6.7 million registered voters must choose between three former allies of deposed ex-president Mamadou Tandja and a longtime opponent of the former leader.
The new president will have the task of leading one of the world's top uranium producers out from under the

ISLAMABAD - Chairman NDFC Employees Welfare Action Committee Imtiaz Ali Khuhro has made an appeal to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to take cognizance of 'worst-ever plunder of the national exchequer' to the tune of Rs120 billions in the name of merging NDFC in the national Bank of Pakistan.
Addressing a news conference here at the Supreme Court on Thursday, he said the merging of the NDFC in NBP was meant to facilitate the loan-defaulters in connivance

GUJRANWALA - Brunei Darussalam High Commissioner Abdul Jalil Ahmad has said that Pakistani products are the best in quality with the lowest prices in the world. He said this while visiting the "Made in Pakistan Industrial Exhibition" at Gujranwala Business Centre the other day. He said Pakistani businessmen should explore international markets and hold industrial exhibitions abroad.
Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) former president Nawaz Ahmad Bajwa, Abdul

KARACHI - Thar Coal and Energy Board (TCEB) Chairman Syed Qaim Ali Shah has requested the Federal Minister For Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf to take up Thar coal power projects during the next round of Pak-US Energy Dialogue.
The funding being sought from the Kerry-Lugar package is for at least one indigenous coal mining and power project at Thar with a capacity to generate between 4,000 and 5,000 megawatts of electricity.
According to the minutes of the tenth board