The board of Punjab Small Industries Corporation (PSIC) has approved to increase the grant for daughter’s marriage up to Rs100,000 and funeral grant from Rs10,000 to Rs100,000 for the employees.
Minister for Commerce and Industry Mian Aslam Iqbal chaired a meeting of PSIC board on Thursday, where the board declared the establishment of a surgical city in Sialkot and a new industrial estate in Gujrat “Time-Bound Projects”. Both these projects will be completed within a period of 18 months.
The board approved in principle the establishment of Small Industrial Estates in Kamalia and Hafizabad.
During the meeting, the board also approved extending the period of construction in small industrial estate sunder 2 till February 2024.
The meeting also decided to conduct a performance audit of the cluster development project and also reviewed the lease policy instead of selling plots in industrial estates.
Iqbal during the meeting said that the PSIC should play a proactive role in enhancing economic activities.
LAHORE: Pakistan’s leading real estate enterprise Zameen.com recently organised a Property Sales Event (PSE) at a private hotel in Lahore and a large number of people attended the event. Zameen’s Senior Director Laeeque Chaudhry was present on the occasion, and was accompanied by Zameen Project Sales Directors Basil Hafeez, Hafiz Usman Sarwar, Ali Rehan and Associate Director Rubiya Afshan.
The event featured numerous real estate projects from Lahore, for which Zameen.com is the exclusive sales and marketing partner, including T Square, Pearl One Residencies, Zee Avenue, Amanah Noor Residence, Residence 15, Icon Valley Phase 2, Gulberg City Centre, DB32, and Defence View Apartments. Special discounts were also offered to the attendees during the event.
Speaking on the occasion, Zameen.com’s Senior Director Laeeque Chaudhry stated that the Property Sales Event was becoming a trademark of Zameen.com and that the main purpose behind the event was to present the public with the best and most trustworthy projects — with the company committed to continuing this endeavour in the future as well. He added that the projects onboarded by Zameen offer potential customers the best facilities in the market and incredible investment opportunities with great returns.
During the event, Zameen.com’s Sales Experts took the time to present a statistical overview of the current market situation, in addition to providing information on safe and secure real estate investment opportunities in the city and beyond.
Karachi: Zameen.com – Pakistan’s largest property enterprise – has launched a new venture ‘Burj Al Jinnah’ at the premium location of Main Jinnah Avenue.
The official ceremony held in this regard was attended by Zameen.com Director Project Sales (South) Agha Israr, Associate Directors Project Sales (South) Shoaib Anees, Asghar Ali, and Sultan Mehmood, along with Senior Marketing Manager Rizwan Kazmi and Marketing Manager (South) Ammad Qureshi. SM Builders & Developers Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ashraf Baig and other stakeholders were also present on the occasion.
Addressing the attendees, Director Project Sales (South) Agha Israr said that SM Builders and Developers’ Burj Al Jinnah is an innovative project that offers lifetime maintenance services for residential units on Karachi’s prime location of Main Jinnah Avenue. With an inventory of 2 & 3-bedroom apartments, this high-rise project will make a popular addition to the real estate market of Karachi.
He added that the project further contained four dedicated floors for parking that also offer an electric car charging facility. In addition, the project features a swimming pool, sauna, study zone, gym, indoor games, and coffee shop, along with a lounge for the elderly residents of the building.
SM Builders & Developers CEO Ashraf Baig also addressed the ceremony and said that since the project is registered with the Federal Board of Revenue, buyers will not be required to declare their source of income invested in the project. In addition, the project offers serviced apartments and Google Smart Home features to its residents.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday revealed the eleven players who were considered for the ICC Men’s T20I Team of the Year and Pakistani skipper Babar Azam was named captain of the team.
Some of the rising stars of the national team also made it to the team including wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan and bowling sensation Shaheen Shah Afridi.
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The XI players who make up the ICC Men’s T20I Team of the Year is revealed! 📝
ISLAMABAD: A specially convened meeting of the 57 member states of the OIC on Sunday vowed to play a leading role in delivery of humanitarian assistance to the people of war-torn Afghanistan and unanimously agreed on establishing a Humanitarian Trust Fund, launch a Food Security Programme and engage with the World Health Organization for securing vaccines and medical supplies.
The meeting of the 17th Extraordinary Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers held on the initiative of Saudi Arabia and hosted by Pakistan was attended by around 70 delegates from the member states, international aid agencies and special representatives.
The unanimously adopted Joint resolution brings a glimmer of hope for the 22.8 million people – more than half the population of Afghanistan – who face acute food shortage; while 3.2 million children and 700,000 pregnant and lactating women are at a risk of acute malnutrition.
The document adopted after day-long deliberations at the Parliament building also expressed solidarity with the Afghans and reiterated the commitment of the OIC Member States to help bring peace, security, stability, and development to Afghanistan.
The extraordinary meeting was convened as the UN’s estimates warned that 60% of Afghanistan’s 38 million people face “crisis levels of hunger” and that the situation was getting worse every day. The OIC also expressed deep alarm at the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
Prime Minister Imran Khan earlier in his keynote address warned; “Unless action is taken immediately, Afghanistan is heading for chaos.”
He said “chaos suits no one” and urged the world to understand the gravity of situation and reach out to the Afghan people who were facing starvation.
The Council of Foreign Ministers also took into account the fact that the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, has pointed that 665,000 people have been newly displaced within Afghanistan between January and September 2021 – in addition to the 2.9 million people already internally displaced by conflict in Afghanistan.
Expressing deep concern over the breakdown of Afghanistan’s health system, disease outbreaks and severe malnutrition, in particular in the face of COVID-19 pandemic, the OIC decided to establish a Humanitarian Trust Fund, under the aegis of the Islamic Development Bank; which would serve as a vehicle to channel humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan including in partnership with other international actors.
The Council of Foreign Ministers decided that the OIC General Secretariat, together with the Islamic Development Bank and Humanitarian Trust Fund, shall commence discussions with the UN system organizations to device a road map for mobilizing actions in relevant fora to unlock the financial and banking channels to resume liquidity and flow of financial and humanitarian assistance. It would also devise a mechanism for the disbursement of urgent and sustained humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
In this regard, the Islamic Development Bank was urged to expeditiously operationalize the Humanitarian Trust Fund by the first quarter of 2022. Meanwhile, the meeting called on the OIC Member States, the Islamic Financial Institutions, donors and other international partners to announce pledges to the Humanitarian Trust Fund for Afghanistan as well as to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.
The meeting expressed deep alarm at the worsening economic situation in Afghanistan, which it pointed was further compounded by the continued freeze of overseas Afghan assets as well as other international assistance, exacerbating the urgent cash-flow problems, including payment of remuneration to public officials, and hindering the provision of essential public and social services to the people of Afghanistan.
The moot, which was also addressed by Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Niger, Jordan, OIC Secretary-General, UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator, President Islamic Development Bank, warned that an economic meltdown in Afghanistan would lead to a mass exodus of refugees, promote extremism, terrorism, and instability, with dire consequences for regional and international peace and stability.
The Council of Foreign Ministers commended Pakistan and Iran’s hospitality, in hosting millions of Afghan refugees for over four decades. It also pointed that millions of Afghan refugees are already residing in the neighbouring countries and beyond due to the protracted conflict and ensuing economic and social challenges spanning over 40 years.
The meeting stressed upon the need to support Afghanistan in addressing poverty, creating employment opportunities, and provision of essential services to its citizens, in particular food, clean water, quality education, health services.
The OIC while deciding to launch an Afghanistan Food Security Programme, requested the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) to undertake necessary work in this regard using the capacity of the Organization’s Food Security Reserves, when necessary.
It also urged the OIC Member States, international donors, the UN Funds and Programmes and other international actors to generously contribute to the Afghanistan Food Security Programme.
The meeting reiterated its call on the OIC Secretary-General to engage with donor financial institutions to provide necessary humanitarian and economic assistance to Afghanistan as well as Afghan refugees in neighbouring countries.
An urgent appeal was also made to OIC member States, the international community including the UN system, international organizations, and international financial institutions to continue to provide all possible and necessary recovery, reconstruction, development, financial, educational, technical and material assistance for Afghanistan as policy tools to promote realization and enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms by all Afghan citizens.
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19 (APP): The Muslim world leaders attending the extraordinary session of OIC countries’ foreign ministers, Sunday called for an immediate and unified action to avert the looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan which otherwise could impact world peace.
Addressing the opening session of the 17th extraordinary Session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers to discuss the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, the leaders were unanimous to call for the OIC’s role to protect the brotherly country from an economic collapse.
In his address, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said that the economic difficulties could trigger a humanitarian crisis and lead to further instability, impacting impact regional and international peace.
He said the people of Afghanistan have suffered for too long and had faced years of instability.
The Saudi FM said that the OIC meeting expressed solidarity with the Afghans and drew the world’s attention towards the need for immediate action to put an end to the deteriorating situation.
He also urged OIC member states to play a part in providing the Afghans with the necessary support and to prevent an economic collapse in the country.
He told the gathering that Saudi Arabia had extended aid of one billion Saud Riyals and had recently airlifted food supplies on the directives of King Salman bin Abdulaziz. He also condemned terrorist actions targeting minorities in Afghanistan.
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Thursday that the next local bodies poll for Punjab will be held through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and legislations in that regard will be soon passed in the assembly with the support of allies.
Speaking to the press after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s core committee meeting, Chaudhry said that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is going in the right direction and its technical committee will decide how the elections will be conducted under the EVMs.
“The government will help the ECP in whatever help is needed to conduct elections under the EVMs,” he said. “There is a wrong perception in the media that the election will be expensive under the EVMs, it will cost exactly the same amount as any other election, it will make the process more timely and smooth.”
The information minister said that the government has decided to hold the Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa polls on December 19. “In Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa election, there will be a contest between 37,752 candidates on 17 seats.”
Chaudhry informed that the government plans to introduce Insaf Sehat Card in Punjab in coming months and for the program to be launched it has allocated Rs350 billion. “With this plan in action, every citizen in Punjab could avail free health service for Rs1 million. We want the Sindh and Balochistan government to join this initiative, the Balochistan government has showed its willingness for this program however we are awaiting response from Sindh.”
Music can bring us to tears or to our feet, drive us into battle or lull us to sleep. Music is indeed remarkable in its power over all humankind, and perhaps for that very reason, no human culture on earth has ever lived without it. The name “Masood Alam” is been included in such artists that gave meaning and soul to the music industry of Pakistan. He is one of the prime talents who filled colours into any lifeless story or content.
Masood Alam was a pioneer who produced art for many beloved brands and composed music for many profiled artists including Atif Aslam and Dino Ali. Masood Alam’s composition has the ability and power to influence human thoughts and create a lifelong home in everyone’s heart.
Masood Alam an artist from a very humble background and with no strings to artistry, found his love for music at a very young age. From playing with cans, cardboard boxes to buying his very own keyboard at the age of 13. An artist who encountered many ups and downs and still came out strong with more passion and containment. Masood Alam is one of the golden musicians in Pakistan, who could create harmonious melodies just by understanding the plot.
Masood Alam took the nuisance music from many Sufi Kalams and brought an era of respective artistry to give Sufism a true meaning of legacy and soul that lagged before. Masood Alam composed his first project of “Imtezaj” volume 1 under his pioneer records of “Wajdaan”. Further, he created melodies for Pakistan’s beloved channel “PTV Home” show “123 Check”.
Masood Alam a poet, an artist and a music composer brought a sense of new legacy in the music industry that brought a paradigm shift. Masood Alam not only is a great artist but also a supporter of all those musicians that are struggling to make ways for themselves to get recognised.
It is only Masood who wanted to build an army of artists for Pakistan that shackles all the orthodox ways of the music industry and bring a new era of artistry under music that gets our country recognised and appreciated.
OLX Mall, the E-Commerce platform of OLX Pakistan recently announced an exciting partnership with Finja; the new-age financial organization. Finja Business portal will be used by OLX Mall for vendor management and disbursement of payments. It is a bank agnostic cloud-based business management tool that supports businesses such as OLX Mall to manage payments, collections, and much more seamlessly.
OLX Mall connects brands and their official distributors selling genuine products to the buyers on their marketplace which makes this partnership an exciting collaboration between both parties to completely digitalize the vendor management process, disbursement of payments for both vendors and employees using the Finja Business platform.
Speaking on the occasion Umair Munir, General Manager E-Commerce of OLX Pakistan said: “We are delighted to establish this partnership with Finja, which is aimed at exploring avenues to collaborate and work together in making the process of financial payments easier across the board. This alliance will help us establish a smooth and convenient process of conducting transactions between OLX Mall and its partners using Finja’s remarkable platform.”
Kamran Zuberi (CEO Finja Lending Service) remarked, “We look forward to taking this partnership forward and building collaborations with renowned E-commerce partners like OLX Mall. Not only are we automating the entire vendor management process but also looking to empower employees through our seamless payroll management tool and Finja Card salary-on-demand product; hence facilitating each and every individual in the value chain.”
Both parties are fully committed to working together to explore greater opportunities for digitization.
Peshawar: Zameen.com – Pakistan’s largest real estate enterprise – held another successful episode of its famed Property Sales Event (PSE) in a private hotel of Peshawar, which was attended by a large number of families. Keeping in line with the prevailing coronavirus situation in Pakistan, only vaccinated attendees were allowed entrance.
As per the tradition of these events, the most promising real estate projects including; Grande Palladium (Joint Venture of Zameen Developments, Earthlink Developments), River Courtyard (featuring Ramada by Wyndham), LA Towers, Peshawar Heights, Deans Tower Peshawar, Canal Vista, Gems Tower, City Medical Complex, LB Farm Houses, Green Oaks Residencia, Hayatabad Heights, Glamorous Heights Kalam and Kalam Cottages, were showcased during the two-day affair and were very well received. These projects that were represented during the Property Sales Event in Peshawar are all exclusively marketed and sold by Zameen.com. Therefore, the company arranged for discount deals and special offers on property purchases to further assist the attendees.
During his media briefing, Zameen.com Director Project Sales (North) Khurram Hussain said that these property sales events are organized with the sole objective of introducing premium real estate projects with potentially profitable gains to citizens. He said that since Zameen.com only presents top-class and reliable real estate developments, which is why property buyers from all over the country trust our recommendations.
Furthermore, Zameen.com Head of Acquisition and Joint Venture Adil Nasir said that the company has contributed considerable efforts to uplift the field of project sales, which has assisted the real estate industry to secure a primary position in the national economy. He further iterated that development in the construction and real estate sector will support 50+ allied industries’ growth.
Furthermore, to guide the interested property buyers in attendance, Zameen’s Sales Team offered a comprehensive presentation including market report, analysis, facts and figures to portray a realistic picture for the potential investors.
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