Lahore: Pakistan’s leading real estate enterprise, Zameen.com, recently organised the first Property Sales Event (PSE) of the year at a private hotel in Lahore. The said event was attended by citizens in large numbers.
Zameen.com Senior Director Chaudhry Laeeque Iftikhar, Director Marketing Haseeb Malik, Directors Project Sales Basil Hafeez, Hafiz Usman Sarwar and Ali Rehan were present at the event.
The event featured 36+ real estate projects from Lahore, for which Zameen.com is the exclusive sales and marketing partner. Some of the showcased premium real estate projects include; T Square, Zee Avenue, Sitara Serene Tower, Gulberg City Centre, Pearl One Residences, Defence View Apartments, Amanah Noor Residence, Residence 15, J Heights, Icon Group and Zameen Quadrangle. The attendees were also offered limited-time and event-only exclusive offers on the projects displayed.
Speaking on the occasion, Zameen.com Senior Director Chaudhry Laeeque Iftikhar stated that the purpose of the Property Sales Events is to provide a single platform that presents all new and existing property ventures for investors to peruse. He said that Zameen.com is trusted by the public for always showcasing highly profitable and quality real estate developments.
Mr Iftikhar opined that Zameen.com has performed exemplary services in the niche of project sales and helped the real estate sector carve a central position in the national economy. He also highlighted that the success of over 50 other local industries was dependent on the growth of the property sector.
Zameen.com Director Marketing Haseeb Malik said that the company has introduced innovative measures to revolutionise the national real estate sector – which is commendable. He further added that Zameen.com has always showcased premium quality and advanced property ventures, which has earned us our credible repute in the market.
At the conclusion of the event, the company’s sales experts gave 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.
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.
Pakistan has decided to also allow the use of Afghan trucks for the transportation of wheat from Wagah border to Torkham, said a Foreign Office statement issued on Friday.
The decision has been taken with a view to further facilitate Pakistan’s decision to allow transportation of 50,000 MT of wheat and life-saving medicines from India to Afghanistan via Wagah border on an exceptional basis for humanitarian purposes.
“This demonstrates the commitment and seriousness of the Government of Pakistan to facilitate the proposed humanitarian assistance,” said the FO statement.
The decision was conveyed to the Charge d’ Affaires of India today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Indian government was also urged to proceed quickly to take necessary steps to expeditiously undertake the delivery of the humanitarian assistance to 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.”
Pakistan has offered to host a summit of foreign ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) next month to address the looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
The Pakistan offer comes after a request from Saudi Arabia, which currently chairs the 57-member group. In a video message, FM Qureshi said that Pakistan fully endorses this initiative of the Kingdom.
“Pakistan also offers to host this meeting in Islamabad on the 17th of next month,” he said and added, “We [Pakistan] are confident that the OIC member states will endorse this offer.”
The United Nations has repeatedly warned that Afghanistan is on the brink of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, and Qureshi said the OIC “must step in to help our Afghan brethren”.
“We should step up our collective efforts to alleviate the humanitarian needs of the Afghan people,” he said in the video statement.
FM Qureshi reiterated that Afghanistan was facing a serious humanitarian situation as millions of Afghans, including women, and children were confronted with an uncertain future due to a shortage of food, medicine and other essential living supplies.
“The advent of winter has exacerbated the humanitarian crisis,” he feared.
The minister also urged the OIC to step up to alleviate the humanitarian needs of the Afghan people, provide immediate and sustained support to them, and continue to remain engaged with them for the wellbeing and prosperity of Afghanistan.
The OIC summit in December will likely be the biggest international gathering on Afghanistan since the Taliban’s return.
After the Taliban seized power on the heels of a US withdrawal in August, more than half of the country is facing “acute” food shortages.
The prospect of a long hard winter is raising the spectre of mass starvation and migration.
The international community has been wary of funding aid efforts through the new Taliban government, considered a pariah owing to its links to terrorism.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate academic blocks of Al-Qadir University on Monday, confirmed Prime Minister Office and Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Twitter.
“The varsity focusing on Ïslamic teachings, Tasawwuf, and modern scientific knowledge along with imparting knowledge to young generation will also play a pivotal role in their character-building,” tweeted PM office.
وزیراعظم عمران خان کل القادر یونیورسٹی کے اکیڈمک بلاکس کا افتتاح کریں گے۔ اسلامی تعلیمات، تصوف اور جدید سائنسی تحقیق پر مبنی القادر یونیورسٹی نوجوان نسل میں علم و تحقیق کے فروغ کے علاوہ انکی کردار سازی میں اہم کردار ادا کرے گی۔ pic.twitter.com/z7DVJ8rkjo
Meanwhile, the information minister tweeted that the university is a gift to the people of Jhelum by the premier. “This university will add a new dimension to the study of social sciences,” Fawad Chaudhry added.
وزیر اعظم عمران خان @ImranKhanPTI کا جہلم کیلئے ایک اور تحفہ القادر یونیورسٹی کا قیام ہے، یہ یونیورسٹی سوشل سائنسز میں ایک نئ جہت کا آضافہ کرے گی، امید ہے یہ ایک ایسی عالمی درسگاہ بنے گی جس میں تصوف، اسلام اور سائنس کے علوم کے اسکالرز پیدا ہوں گے https://t.co/VoJNzEwJYJ
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.
Pakistan defeated New Zealand by five wickets in a thrilling and exciting T20 world cup match in Sharjah. Back-to-back victories for Pakistan in the ongoing ICC T20 Cup 2021’s Super 12 Stage and they are leading the points table in their group.
Though matches between Pakistan and New Zealand have always been thrilling because both are considered one of the top teams in the cricket world, this match was more compelling for both teams. The reason behind this is the withdrawal of the New Zealand tour in Pakistan, which they cancelled at the last moment by giving an excuse for security issues. According to experts playing with New Zealand was more challenging for Pakistan than playing with India. But the Pakistani cricket team accepted this challenge and beat New Zealand the way they deserved to be.
Pakistan first won the toss and then won the most exciting match of the T20 world cup 2021. In the first innings, New Zealand played well and scored 42 runs by the end of the Powerplay. NZ lost the first wicket by Haris Rauf of Martin Guptill. After ten overs, the Black Caps reached 60/3. It’s where the chances of Pakistan’s win increased. After 15 overs Hafeez and Imad showed their performance and drew out two other players of the NZ team. Haris Rauf with the ball and Asif Ali with the bat are both reasons behind this tremendous victory.
Pakistan has defeated the two most prominent and strong teams of the world (India and New Zealand), and the nation is hoping that green caps will surely bring this world cup to Pakistan.
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.
Musawar Ali 