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Karachi (Muhammad Yasir)Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at jointly promoting conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity in Thar area.  Syed Abul Fazal Rizvi, CEO SECMC and Ms. Aban Marker Kabraji, Regional Director IUCN Asia and Director, Regional Hub for Asia-Oceania, signed the MoU at a ceremony attended, amongst others, by a delegation of experts from the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), currently in Pakistan as part of a Special Policy Study on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). CCICED is…

Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) Depilex College of Cosmetology hosted the graduation ceremony under the patronage of National Vocational and Technical Training Commission on other day. The event was attended by  Dr.Ahmad Javed Qazi, Director General NAVTTC, Mr. Ahmad Jamal Assistant Director NAVTTC, Mr. Mohammad Azam- Director NAVTTC & Mr. Hammad Nasir Assistant Director, where 100 under-privileged women were awarded with their certificates as beauticians under the scholarship program in collaboration with National Vocational and Technical Training Commission. The program aims to provide free of cost beautician courses to the low-income women of Pakistan, focused on self-grooming, make-up, hair styling, skin aesthetics,…

Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) Leading policy makers and business operators discussed the current and future issues facing the economy and the role of business leaders in shaping the future at the inaugural Karachi edition of this year’s “Pakistan Leadership Conversation 2019 (PLC 2019)” organised by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants). Pakistan Leadership Conversation (PLC) is an annual series of conferences that brings together prominent thought leaders from the public and private sectors and engage them in thought-provoking and future-focused conversations with an aim to shape the future of society and economy in Pakistan. Sajjeed Aslam, head of ACCA Pakistan…

Karachi (Muhammad Yasir)  “The seed and idea of literature festivals caught on and spread like wildfire in a forest where it seems that a fuel of parched trees was waiting for it”. These thoughts were expressed by Ameena Saiyid OBE, SI, Chevalier des Ordres des Arts et des Lettres, Founder and Director Adab Festival Pakistan, at the closing ceremony of first Adab Festival Pakistan. The three-day Adab Festival Pakistan (AdabFest) featuring writers, poets, showbiz figurers and journalists concluded on Sunday. On the third & last day of AdabFest, thousands of literature lovers attended the festival. People of all ages attended…

Karachi (Muhammad Yasir)  On the second day of Adab Festival Pakistan (AdabFest) Karachi 2019, on Saturday, thousands of literature lovers thronged to the venue of the festival and actively participated in the events. People of all ages attended the festival, including avid readers, writers, academics, and literary figures from across Pakistan and the world for the second day of the festival, which began on Friday at the Sindh Governor The first three-day ‘Adab Festival Pakistan’ opened at the Sindh Governor’s House on Friday amid the presence of a large number of writers, poets, intellectuals and book lovers. Ameena Saiyid and…

Karachi (Muhammad Yasir)  Governor Sindh, Imran Ismail said that the current government wants to promote literary activities. “Doors of Governor House Sindh, Karachi are open to all literary events and government will extend cooperation in this regard”. He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the first Adab Festival Pakistan, the 3-day literary event being organized at Sindh Governor House, Karachi.   “Through Adabfest we want to create a new Silk Route through which all the grandeur of our traditions and culture, literature and the arts, expressed through every language in the country, can travel out of obscurity to join the world’s…

Karachi (Muhammad Yasir) Every year, the city gets its much-needed intellectual and cultural treat in the form of the annual Karachi Literature Festival (KLF). Much awaited each year by the literati and the people of Karachi, this year’s edition is going to be a special Ten Year Celebration of the event. Happening on 1, 2, and 3March 2019, at the Beach Luxury Hotel as usual, the event will mark KLF’s ten successful years of being the leading literary festival of the city and spawning other such festivals celebrating the written word in different cities across Pakistan.   The KLF organisers, Oxford…

Karachi (Muhammad Yasir) “Adab Festival Pakistan (Adab Fest), opening at 315 pm on 1 February 2019, is a tapestry of literature and culture that will promote and nurture talent in writing, research, music, art, dance, theatre, etc. We want to make this a movement throughout Pakistan and get other people to organize their own festivals, and we will try to help them do so in whatever way we can” These thoughts were expressed by Ameena Saiyid OBE, SI, Chevalier des Ordres des Arts et des Lettres, Founder and Director Adab Festival Pakistan, at a press conference at the Karachi Press…

Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) Depilex College of Cosmetology hosted the third Graduation Ceremony on the 16th of January, 2019 under the patronage of Punjab Skills Development Fund. The spectacular event was attended by Ms. Masarrat Misbah, CEO Depilex and Mr. Jawad CEO PSDF where the third batch of 200 beauticians were awarded with their certificates under the scholarship program in collaboration with Punjab Skills Development Fund. The program aims to provide free of cost beautician courses to the low-income women of Pakistan, focused on professional make-up, hair dressing and skin aesthetics. “It is an incredible feeling to see the third batch…

WorldRemit research shows that switching from offline into digital remittances could free up a further $825 million for education worldwide Lahore (Muhammad Yasir)  New research from the digital money transfer service WorldRemit shows hundreds of thousands of Pakistani children are in school, have access to books and educational supplies, and are more likely to study and less likely to work due to international remittances. Pakistan is one of the top 10 remittance recipients worldwide, and received $21 billion in remittances in 2018. These findings were calculated using data from UNESCO, the World Bank, and Pakistan’s latest national household survey. Approximately…