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Daily Archives: May 20, 2011

Business and traders community join hands with police to curb crime


Islamabad: Islamabad Police will leave no stone unturned to curb crime in the city and will promote the idea of community policing to inculcate friendly police ecology and eliminate activities of anti-social elements through cooperation of citizens. It was stated by Inspector General of Police Islamabad Wajid Ali Khan Durrani while inaugurating Community Police Centres in the area of Sabzi Mandi and Industrial Area police stations. DIG (Operations) Bani Amin, AIG (Operations) Ehsan Sadiq, SSP Islamabad Tahir Alam Khan, President [...]

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Official vehicles in use of Islamabad Traffic Police to be used fairly: Senior Superintendent of Police Traffic


Islamabad: Senior Superintendent of Police (Traffic) Dr. Moeen Masood on Friday visited MT Section of Islamabad Traffic Police near Faizabad and directed to use official vehicles in transparent manner. The SSP along with technical staff made inspection of motorbikes, cars and other vehicles and stressed to ensure their maintenance in time and keep them fit. He made complete inspection of vehicles being used by the officers of four zones and said ITP is friendly and corruption free force. He said [...]

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Pakistan State Oil Launches CNG Customer Safety Awareness Campaign


Karachi: Pakistan State Oil, the largest energy sector company in Pakistan, is dedicated to promoting safe usage of CNG across the board. PSO who prides itself on its status of being a market leader both in terms of number of CNG stations and market share amongst all OMCs in the country recently held a series of Customer Safety Awareness campaigns at their CNG stations in multiple cities of Pakistan. The PSO team interacted with the customers and provided safety precautions [...]

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Rebuilding Livelihoods with Livestock in Pakistan


Los Angeles: When devastating floods swept through the Nowshera District of Pakistan’s KPK province in July 2010, Laiq Jan—a farmer and father of four young children—lost both his home and his source of livelihood. The rush of water destroyed much of his small mud house located near the river bank, ruined his personal belongings, and took away two of his most valuable and life-sustaining possessions: a cow and a goat. Lacking the resources to rebuild his home, and suffering from [...]

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Deputy Permanent Secretary receives donation from the Islamic Bank of Thailand to help Pakistanis suffering from floods


Islamabad: Mr. Pisanu Chanvitan, Deputy Permanent Secretary, received a donation of 100,554.65 Baht from Mrs. Uraiwan Maneechote, Senior Executive Vice President of the Islamic Bank of Thailand, to assist Pakistanis who had been suffering from devastating floods since August 2010. The said donation will be added to previous donations made to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ account, and will be given to the relevant Pakistani agencies via the Royal Thai Embassy in Islamabad. The donation results from a conference of [...]

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Record 75000 books sold during 3-day Punjab University book fair


Lahore: Unexpectedly, a record 75 thousand books were sold during the three days of PU book fair organized by the administration, faculty and students. Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has said that the number of books sold on book fair showed the students and people still have love for books. He said mostly young students have purchased maximum books which showed increase in their liaison with books. He stressed the need to promote study-culture and said the knowledge was the [...]

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Seminar on ‘Advancement in Chromo therapy held at Punjab University


Lahore: Punjab University Department of Gender Studies’ Gender Research and Counselling Centre, in collaboration with Azimia Rohania Library, organized a seminar on “Advancement in Chromo therapy” here in the department. Dr Samina Aamir and Asma Azmi Azmat were the keynote speakers of the seminar while Department Incharge Chairperson Prof Dr Samar Fatima, faculty members and a large number of students were present on the occasion. The speakers, while highlighting the history and treatment method, said colours had various affects on [...]

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