Tag: Visits

ISLAMABAD - Central Command Commander Gen. James Mattis visited Pakistan to consult with Pakistan's military leadership.
During his visit, Gen. Mattis met with Chief of the Army Staff, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Khalid Wynne.
According to US embassy in Pakistan, they discussed the security assistance mission of the Office of the Defense Representative to Pakistan and exchanged views on regional security issues, including

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday visited the Lahore Book Fair, which is being organised with collaboration of the Punjab government.
More than 160 publishers from India, Pakistan, UK and the US are participating in the book fair with more than 200 stalls.
Academic books of the Punjab Text Book Board are also available at the stalls. The book fair will continue until April 11. Books are available in all categories while people from all walks of life

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday ate his own words by lifting the condition that made it binding on artists to obtain a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the Interior Ministry before travelling abroad. The ban was imposed by the Interior Ministry after the arrest of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan in India for carrying an amount in excess of allowed limit.
A source told Pakistan Today that the decision had been made in view of directions passed by President Asif Ai

LAHORE - Chief Justice of Nepal Ram Prasad Shreshta on Saturday visited the Punjab Judicial Academy and learnt about the training process of judicial officers in Pakistan. Punjab Judicial Academy Director General Justice (r) Tanvir Ahmed Khan briefed the Nepalese CJ and other members of his delegation about the functioning and achievements of the academy. The Lahore High Court (LHC) chief justice and other judges were also present on the occasion.

LAHORE - Nepal Supreme Court Chief Justice (CJ) Ram Prasad Shreshta emphasised the need for extending cooperation among the South Asian countries to promote the judicial system in the region. CJ Ram with his delegation inaugurated an IT centre at the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday. The centre aims at informing lawyers and litigants about the details of their cases in timely fashion through SMS and email service.
LHC Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry welcomed the delegation,

SANGIN - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited the key battleground of southern Afghanistan Tuesday to meet troops ahead of the planned start of foreign force withdrawals from July. Flying into the country on Monday, Gates said that US and coalition forces are "well-positioned" to begin a gradual drawdown in four months' time but he has not given a number for how many US personnel could leave then.
On Tuesday he saw the situation on the ground, visiting the US military base

KARACHI - The Chief Executive Officer of Pakistan Steel Mills Wasif Mehmood visited the Coke Oven Battery Plant (COBP) and was briefed by senior production and BMR&E Directorate officials about the mills' working. The contract for reconstruction of two coke oven batteries was signed with Ukaranian Company in January 2007, at a cost of $23 million.

Lahore - UK House of Commons Member Lord Nazir Ahmed visited the Emergency Services Academy on Friday and lauded the services of the Rescue 1122 particularly its response time of seven minutes and pledged support in capacity building of Rescue 1122 staff from the UK.
According to details, Nazir along with Councilor Jahangir Akhtar and Councilor Rotherhan Westward visited the Emergency Services Academy where he was briefed on various emergency training being imparted to rescuers.

SAHIWAL - Sahiwal Division Commissioner Qazi Muhammad Ashfaq paid a surprise visit to the district headquarters hospital and checked various facilities being provided to patients. He expressed his dismay over the poor condition of cleanliness as well as absence of medical staff and directed the medical superintendent to improve the performance of the hospital within 15 days otherwise strict administrative action would be taken.
He said the Punjab government was spending huge

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday informed the National Assembly that his ministry was devising a new strategy to tackle terrorism by introducing a new performa for foreigners and Pakistanis visiting abroad.
"Under the new mechanism, which will be introduced within a few days, there will be a proper check on foreign scholarships offered to Pakistani students, while Pakistani artistes visiting other countries will also have to seek a no-objection certificate

KARACHI - Gilgit-Baltistan Governor Karam Ali Shah visited the Mazar-e-Quaid on Wednesday and offered fateha. The governor paid rich tributes to the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in his remarks in the visitor's book there.
Shah said that the Quaid-e-Azam was a son of the soil as he was born in Karachi and lauded the leader's greatness and character. Talking to the media, the governor said that efforts are under way for the rehabilitation of the people affected from the Attabad

LAHORE - Federal Minister for Environment Samina Khalid Gurki visited the World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan (WWF Pakistan) Head Office on Tuesday for a briefing on various conservation and environmental projects which have been organised by the WWF Pakistan Director General Ali Hasan Habib.
WWF Pakistan has entered its 41st year of conservation in Pakistan. This was Gurki's first visit to the organisation after becoming the Federal Minister for Environment.
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LOS ANGELES - Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, has reportedly visited a cancer treatment clinic. Jobs, 55, who has been on medical leave since last month, was seen at the Stanford Cancer Centre in Palo Alto, California, according to celebrity news website.
Photographs of the Apple boss outside the centre, and looking thinner than usual, were published. They were taken a day after he put in a full day's work at Apple on Feb 7.
Mr Jobs underwent a liver transplant in 2009 and,

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Friday visited Combined Military Hospital (CMH) and enquired about the health of wounded recruits of Mardan bomb blast.
He appreciated morale of the injured persons and gave special instructions to the doctors for their early recovery, an ISPR note stated. Later, Kayani inaugurated the new outdoor patients' department complex at Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology and appreciated the efforts for further improving

LAHORE - Carnegie Mellon University John Heinz III College Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives Bryan J Tumburro visited the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) on Wednesday and met the VC, director marketing and career service officer.
The visit was arranged by the Australian Trade and High Commission. Participants of the meeting explored MoU opportunities and scholarships to establish high-quality candidate pipelines and discussed ongoing development of the

LAHORE - Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday visited the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), Kamra where he witnessed the remarkable progress made in co-production of the JF-17 aircraft. Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman General Khalid Shameem Wynne and Pakistan Air Force (PAF) chief Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman were also present on the occasion while the defence, acting defence production and finance ministers and the State Bank governor accompanied the

ISLAMABAD - The Finance Ministry on Friday apprised the Senate of the fact that the officials at the State Bank of Pakistan and the Federal Board of Revenue cost Rs 24 million to the national exchequer on their visits abroad.
Ironically, these visits were meant to seek remedy against the financial crunch in which the Pakistani officials held talks with representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from October 2008 to November 2010. The Finance Ministry submitted