Pakistan Research Center receives excellence award in Beijing
BEIJING, Dec 14 (APP): Pakistan Research Center for a Community with Shared Future was given the excellence award in Beijing, China, as an international research center that promotes the scholarly share future ideology between the two countries.
A forum titled “Building a Community with Shared Future – International Think Tank Forum (2022)”, organized by the Institute for a Community with Shared Future (ICSF) of the Communication University of China (CUC), awarded outstanding research center award, China Economic Net (CEN) reported.
Khalid Taimur Akram, Executive Director of Pakistan Research Center for a Community with Shared Future, was given the Outstanding Individual Award.
Akram delivered a speech on the theme of “Building an Inclusive Development Module under the Concept of a Community of Shared Future” and thanked CUC for giving him and his organization these outstanding awards.
“The world is undergoing unprecedented changes in a century. The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, food problems, energy crisis, war, and conflict have brought many challenges to the world,” Akram said.
Akram emphasized that the concept of a human community with a shared future brings new solutions to the above-mentioned problems faced by the world, and plans a common future development path for mankind from a holistic perspective, which he said will help the world cope with the common crisis and challenges.
The forum is part of the annual series of international top academic activities initiated by ICSF. About 80 participants around the world attended the online forum.
Senate, Libya’s House of Representatives to set up coordination committees
ISLAMABAD, Dec 14 (APP): The Senate of Pakistan and Libya’s House of Representatives on Wednesday agreed to constitute a coordination committee on both sides in order to fix modalities, ensure implementation of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) signed in different areas, and further cement parliamentary relations between the two brotherly countries.
The delegation, led by Secretary General of the Parliament of Libya Abdualla Almasri Mussa, held a meeting here at the Parliament House with Senate Secretary Qasim Samad Khan, flanked by high officials including Additional Secretary Legislation, Additional Secretary IPR, and Director General Coordination.
The delegation was given a briefing about the overall structure, functioning, and hierarchy of the Senate Secretariat.
Qasim Samad Khan acquainted the delegation with the parliamentary system and its business. He committed that the Senate with all the available resources could help and support Libya in running their House of Representatives.
He reiterated the resolve for furnishing training to the legislators and officers of the Libyan Parliament at the Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Services, saying the offer extended by Senate Chairman Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani in that regard was still on the table.
The meeting stressed cooperating in different areas inter alia, including information technology, strengthening legislation, and helping each other at international forums, including the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA), Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), and PIUC.
Abdualla said the partnership in various areas and high-level exchanges would strengthen the brotherly relations between the two countries.
He recommended setting up of a secretarial-level committee on both sides, which was welcomed by the Senate Secretary.
Both sides nominated their focal persons for the smooth running of the affairs of the coordination committee and fixing modalities discussed in the meeting.
Labourer busy in packing tomatoes in wooden boxes at Subzi Mandi
Children enjoying swing at a local park near Otha Chowk
A farmer busy in collecting vegetable at a farm field near Bakrani Village
