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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lahore: Punjab University Oriental College’s Department of Urdu Associate Professor Dr Muhammad Kamran’s book titled “Ahmad Ali—Hayat Aur Adbi Khidmat” has been highly appreciated at national and international level. At the book-launching ceremony, organized by Anjuman-e-Taraqqi-e-Urdu Pakistan, the President Anjuman Aftab Ahmad Khan, Dr Jaffar Ahmad, Muslim Shamim, Prof Anis Fatima, Syed Azfar Rizvi, Saba Ikram, Mumtaz Ahmad Khan and Shahab Qudwai highly appreciated the standard of academic effort of Dr Kamran. Renowned poet and columnist, Jamil-ud-Din Aali, in his [...]

Lahore: Punjab University Department of French has established “Translation Desk” and “Comparative Studies Desk” to facilitate the increasing number of students. The main objective of Translation Desk is to provide translation of latest research papers, articles and reviews (published in renowned journals) related to sociological issues, literary domain and other technical fields in biological and computer science etc. with multi-lingual approach (French, English, Urdu etc.) and translation of professional/legal documents. The Comparative Studies Desk will provide introduction, analysis and critical [...]