During the beginning of Muharram-Ul-Haram, a security official conducts a Flag March to inspect the arrangements and safety measures for Majalis, ensuring a peaceful and secure observance of the occasion
Labourers busy in preparing bricks at local bricks Kiln in Division
Govt sends Pakistanis abroad for employment after signing MoUs with foreign countries: Sajid Tori
PESHAWAR, Jul 19 (APP): Federal Minister for OverseasePakistanis and Human Resource Development, Sajid Husain Tori here Wednesday said the government was sending Pakistanis abroad for employment after signing proper MoUs and agreements with foreign countries to ensure their jobs security and dignified stay there.
The Minister said that under proper agreements and MoUs, the skilled and semi-skilled workforce of Pakistan were being sent to different countries for employment to earn valuable foreign exchange for the country.
“People are not going by themselves but rather being sent abroad under proper MoUs and agreements signed with 16 different countries to ensure their jobs security and dignified stay in these states,” he said.
The federal minister said that up till now, MoUs were signed with about 16 countries for abroad employment to Pakistanis and some more agreements were under consideration.
The Minister said vocational education and professional training were imperative for the sustainable progress and development of the country.
“Without quality education and vocational training to youth, the country’s development seemed difficult and collective efforts were required to promote technical education in all areas of Pakistan,” he said.
He expressed these views during separate meetings of officers and focal persons at the regional office of the Overseas Pakistan Foundation (OPF), Peshawar.
Sajid Tori said that travelling abroad through illegal means should be discouraged as such negative practices were not only inflicting financial losses but also causes great difficulty to immigrants besides tarnishing the country’s image overseas.
The Federal Minister said that efforts were being made to provide rights to labourers associated with mines and the mineral sector in line with the standard of the International Labour Organization.
Sajid Hussain Tori directed the concerned authorities to address the problems of the shortage of staff and provide all basic facilities to OPF schools.
Earlier, the Minister was informed that 114 complaints out of 151 complaints received by the OPF Regional Office have been addressed. Most of these complaints were related to land and law and order issues.
Underscoring the need of spreading awareness among people regarding the importance of the role of overseas Pakistanis in the country’s development, the Minister said a shortage of staff at OPF schools would be addressed.
OPF schools in North Waziristan and South Waziristan districts would be opened.
The four years-long pending funds cases have been cleared due to the cooperation of the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development.
As many as Rs794.86 million in education scholarships to 3399 students, Rs122.8 million for marriage grants and Rs73.7 million death grants to 130 people have been provided during 2022-23.
After recommendations of the committee, one lakh journalists were brought under the jurisdiction of EOBI.
A view of clouds hovering over the Margalla Hills during rain in Federal Capital
Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani addressing during the launching ceremony of Pakistan Humanitarian Forum (PHF) Annual Report-2022
Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Sherry Rehman, addressing during the launching ceremony of Pakistan Humanitarian Forum (PHF) Annual Report-2022
Kashmir Accession Day: The Day of Kashmiris’ resolve to destine with Pakistan
MIRPUR, Jul 19 (APP): The chivalrous people of Jammu and Kashmir State, dwelling either side of the Line of Control and rest of the world, marked the 76th Kashmiris’ Accession-to-Pakistan Day with a resolve to attach their final destiny with Pakistan to transform Quaid-e-Azam’s vision into reality.
This is indeed — a matchless characteristic of Kashmiris, who observe the occasion every year to reiterate their earnest belief about their outlook, austerely in line with the historic resolution which was adopted at a momentous session of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference that took place on this day in Aabiguzar, a vicinity adjacent to famed Dal Lake in the dazzling city of Srinagar, 76-years ago.
On July 19, 1947, a meeting of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference was held at the residence of an illustrious Kashmiri leader, late Sardar Mohammed Ibrahim Khan, (later the founder President of Azad Jammu Kashmir) chaired by the veteran leader, Ch. Hamidullah Khan because the apex leader, Quaid-e-Millat Ch.
Ghulam Abbas was put behind the bars by Hari Singh for voicing the will of the people against the Dogra regime. The resolution of the State’s accession to Pakistan was presented in the presence of 59 bold and vibrant leaders.
As was envisioned—the resolution was instantaneously adopted with one-voice amid boom of slogans — Allah-o-Akbar (God is Great) and Pakistan Zindabad (Long Live Pakistan) by the partakers as well as a copious number of Kashmiris, camouflaging the venue of the moot.
The resolution expressed Kashmiris’ out-and-out and absolute confidence in the dynamic leadership of the Father of the Nation, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah with the words, “We salute him (The great Quaid) and congratulate him from the core of our hearts with mammoth delight and soul satisfaction on the auspicious occasion of the establishment of Pakistan.”
Giving a stern warning to the Hindu Dogra ruler, the valiant people of the state, with more than 85 per cent Muslim populace asked Singh to declare the State’s accession with Pakistan without any vacillation before August 14, 1947 or get ready to face a cataclysmic fate—if this popular voice of the people is mistreated.
Eventually, India, through a gruesome operation resorted to an illicit invasion of the Jammu & Kashmir State. To thwart this illegitimate and inane Indian act—the heroic people of the State— stood up like an unyielding rock against the atrocious Dogra regime. This culminated into the establishment of Azad Jammu Kashmir as a base camp for the liberation of the rest of the State’s territory from the unjust Indian yoke.
The day recollects the resolve by the people of Jammu and Kashmir asking India to bow before their acknowledged aspires for exercising their birth right of self-determination to save the South Asia region from a catastrophic peril.
The Kashmiris urge India to quit the part of the Himalayan State of Jammu & Kashmir—which New Delhi is keeping in bondage at hefty gun-point with the deployment of almost a million military might.
Just like past, the Kashmiris call upon the comity of nations to fulfill its outright word of honour by ensuring the immediate implementation of the United Nations resolutions—which were adopted more than dozen times with a clear-cut commitment of plebiscite in the Jammu and Kashmir State under the aegis of the world body, enabling Kashmiris to exercise their birth right of self-determination to establish their destiny for all times to come.
As is indexed in the folio of the history, India is fully aware of the fact that not a single Kashmiri shall vote for New Delhi and that-is-why the perfidious Indians, steering the affairs—are evading the UN resolutions with sham excuses — one-way or the other.
It is pertinent to note that the people of Jammu Kashmir launched struggle for freedom under the spirit of the said resolution for the liberation of their motherland from the clutches of tyrannical dogra rule and later from the illegal and forcible occupation of Indian imperialism.
This freedom struggle of Kashmiris is continuing unabated since over last six decades. However since over last 33 years, the liberation movement has attained momentum after the people of Indian held Jammu Kashmir stood up launching their indigenous struggle against the long Indian subjugation.
This year, the Kashmirs’ Accession to Pakistan Day is flanked by a sign of a new hope that if India agrees to the ground realities without any reservations and learns a lesson from the historical facts that she (New Delhi) cannot rule people of Jammu & Kashmir by force, then it might help bring a lasting peace and prosperity in the region through peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue under the spirit of the historic UN resolutions on Kashmir.
Various parts of AJK have been decorated with the banners bearing slogans of the Kashmiris deep-rooted love and affection with Pakistan, continuation of struggle for liberation of occupied Kashmir to bring the idea of Kashmir’s accession to Pakistan to destiny and for achieving the Kashmiris birth right of self determination.
Pakistan’s just and principled stand on Kashmir is well-known, well established and well-acknowledged that the Kashmir issue needs to be settled through a simple parameter which reflect the aspirations of the major party to the dispute – the Jammu & Kashmiri people.
Political observers in the Jammu & Kashmir state add that the Moodi-led New Delhi’s government must accept the ground realities about the early peaceful resolution of Kashmir issue and the just and principled stance and views of Pakistan which provided a strong headway to reach to the permanent and durable settlement of Kashmir conflict.
President urges bureaucracy to promote good governance in public departments
ISLAMABAD, Jul 19 (APP):President Dr Arif Alvi on Wednesday urged the government officers to play their role in promotion of good governance in all public departments of the country.
He said besides improving service delivery, the bureaucracy should also work for the country’s development and welfare of the people with sincerity and hard work.
He was talking to the participants of 37th Mid-Career Management Course Quetta who called on him here at the President House.
The president said the government authorities needed to take timely decisions to provide justice to the people.
“Delay in decision making put negative impact on the service delivery and development of the country,” he said adding “We need to adopt better morals and values ??of integrity”.
He said Pakistani bureaucracy has to improve the system and increase the intellectual capacity.
The officers should equip themselves with modern skills to improve the performance and effective decision making, he remarked.
President Alvi also asked the bureaucracy to benefit from the modern information technology to improve the people’s access to the public service and enhance performance of the government departments.
The president also directed to provide service as per the people’s expectation to ensure fast-track development in the country.
The farmer family is cultivating the rice crop in the fields in a traditional way
A motorcyclist on the way under cover of a piece of cloth to protect from monsoon rain in the city
