Islamabad: The Federal Health Minister, Mir Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani said the National Institute of Health which is the country’s premier institution in the field of public health would be strengthened and made a model institution in the health sector. This observation was made by the Minster while presiding over a briefing on the working of [...]
Islamabad: JCR-VIS Credit Rating Company has reaffirmed Management Quality Rating of AM2- ‘High Management Quality’ to UBL Fund Managers, Pakistan’s leading asset management company.
This is currently the Highest Management Quality Rating assigned by JCR-VIS to any Asset Management Company in the mutual funds industry. This is a notable achievement for UBL Fund Managers, taking into [...]
Islamabad: A joint consultation amongst the Government, Donors and UN on the next steps toward implementation of the One UN Programme, which was signed on 4 February, 2009 under the leadership of the Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and the Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf Raza Gilani, took place in the morning at the ILO [...]
Islamabad: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has strongly condemned the assassinations of Mr. Moosa Khan Khail, Geo News Reporter and Allama Iftikhar Habibi who were killed by unknown assassins in Matta (Swat) and Quetta today.
The Prime Minister directed the provincial governments and law and enforcement agencies to apprehend the culprits involved in [...]
Islamabad: The Ministry of Environment, with the support of UNICEF, is the national emergency preparedness and response plan with a view to ensure provision of timely and adequate drinking water, sanitation hygiene (WASH) services to the people [...]
Karachi: Under a new initiative aimed at strengthening civil society organisations in Pakistan, Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP) with the support of the World Bank, held a focused orientation workshop for NPOs of Karachi on its NPO Certification Programme on Thursday. The session was held at one of PCP’s certified NPO’s, The Kidney Centre Institute. [...]
Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) is Launching its documentary on the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance 2000 Detention as a Last Resort! on Thursday, February 19, 2009, from 3:00 to 5:00, followed by Hi-Tea, at Islamabad Hotel
Detention as a Last Resort!” looks at different aspects of the juvenile [...]
Mumbai, India: Celebrity publicist Dale Bhagwagar (who has handled the media for the likes of Hrithik Roshan, Shilpa Shetty, Priyanka Chopra, Esha Deol, Shiney Ahuja, Randeep Hooda and Vivek Oberoi, among forty others) will be addressing around 1,300 students from more than 70 colleges in Mumbai, spread over four PR events, starting this weekend.
The publicist [...]
Karachi: After the successful completion of Oracle E-Business Suite last year at Bank Al-Habib, Inbox signed an agreement with the bank to provide more applications on running ERP System. Inbox being one of the Value Added Reseller, System Integrator, and Certified Implementation Partner of Oracle, offered the bank Disaster Recovery (DR) solution implementation based on [...]
Islamabad: Ms. Nighat Tanveer of State Bank of Pakistan received the prestigious Dean’s award for her achievement as a student with the highest total marks in the Chartered Islamic Finance Professional Programme organized by International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The Dean’s Award was conferred on Ms. Nighat Tanveer by [...]
