ISLAMABAD, Feb 20 (APP):Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq Tuesday called for greater interaction and people-to-people contact with Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He stressed the need for new synergies of parliamentary cooperation between Pakistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina.The speaker expressed these views during a meeting with Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sakib Foric, said a press release.
Reiterating Pakistan’s commitment to enhance bilateral relations, Ayaz Sadiq underlined the need for diversification of trade, economic and parliamentary relations to assign substantive meanings to bilateral collaboration.
He said that both the countries have commonalities of views and perceptions on various regional and international issues.
The Speaker stressed the need for enhancing cooperation between the legislatures of brotherly countries.
He informed the dignitary that Pakistan seeks to play a larger role to prevent Muslim world’s descent into factions, violence, instability and underdevelopment.
The Speaker also invited his Bosnian counterpart to visit Pakistan with his parliamentary delegation.
Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sakib Foric highly appreciated Pakistan’s gesture of friendship with Bosnia and Herzegovina and said that the political leadership of Bosnia and Herzegovina is committed to strengthen its ties with Pakistan.
He also reciprocated Bosnian’s commitment to an enduring, comprehensive, diversified and warm relations with Pakistan manifested in trade and economic dividends for both nations.
Sakib Foric acknowledged Pakistan’s endeavors for promoting unity among the Muslims.
The Ambassador also called for instilling new vitality in inter-Parliamentary relations.
He thanked Pakistan for extending assistance to Bosnia in a number of sectors and also widely recognizing its position and sovereignty at the international level.

ISLAMABAD, Feb 20 (APP):Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq Tuesday called for greater interaction and people-to-people contact with Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He was speaking to Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sakib Foric in the Parliament House, a press release said.
He stressed the need for new synergies of parliamentary cooperation between Pakistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Reiterating Pakistan’s commitment to enhance bilateral relations, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq underlined the need for diversification of trade, economic and parliamentary relations to assign substantive meanings to bilateral collaboration.
He said both the countries have commonalities of views and perceptions on various regional and international issues.
The speaker stressed the need for enhancing cooperation between the legislatures of brotherly countries.
He informed the dignitary that Pakistan seeks to play a larger role to prevent Muslim world’s descent into factions, violence, instability and underdevelopment.
He also invited his Bosnian counterpart to visit Pakistan with his parliamentary delegation.
Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sakib Foric highly appreciated Pakistan’s gesture of friendship with Bosnia and Herzegovina and said the political leadership of Bosnia and Herzegovina is committed to strengthening its ties with Pakistan.
He also reciprocated Bosnian’s commitment to an enduring, comprehensive, diversified and warm relations with Pakistan manifested in trade and economic dividends for both nations.
Sakib Foric acknowledged Pakistan’s endeavors for promoting unity among the Muslims. The ambassador also called for instilling new vitality in inter-parliamentary relations.
He thanked Pakistan for extending assistance to Bosnia in a number of sectors and also widely recognizing its position and sovereignty at the international level.

ISLAMABAD, Feb 20 (APP):Federal Minister for Defense, Engineer Khurram Dastagir Khan Tuesday reviewed defence budget preparations for the financial year 2018-2019 here at the Defence Ministry on Tuesday.
Additional Secretary Ministry of Defence and other top officials briefed the minister about the defence budget, a spokesperson of the ministry said.
The minister was given a comprehensive briefing about the recent trends in defence budget as well as the need of funds for replacing various types of equipment for the armed forces.
He was told that preparations for the next fiscal year are on schedule.The minister appreciated the high-level automation in budget surveillance.
He also lauded ministry’s subordinate departments, inter-services institutions and armed forces for regularly updating the budget usage.
The minister reiterated the government’s commitment to provide full cooperation to armed forces for safeguarding national frontiers.

ISLAMABAD, Feb 20 (APP):The Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) claims to make Roshni sms service error free in one month in a meeting contemplated to find out a solution of public complaints for receiving irrelevant messages of maintenance and billing through Roshni sms service.
The meeting headed by CEO was unanimous to ensure 100 per cent accuracy of the intimation system to its subscribers and correction of the relevant data to reach out actual and genuine consumers.
People are continuously receiving unwanted messages since the start of an SMS-based service (ROSHNI) aimed to provide information regarding their bills, repair maintenance and load-shedding.

Deputy Manager Public Relation IESCO Asim Nazir Raja,while talking to APP, Tuesday informed that Basit Zaman Ahmed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) directed Director General Information System(DGIS) to resolve the issue within one month.

He further told that IESCO had registered 2,754,000 people under “ROSHNI” service out of which 2,623,000 were active customers and only 10 percent’s data required to be revisited for correction.

“The department had to reexamine the entire data after consistent public complaints and soon it will be made error free”, he pledged.
He said sometime data is feed-ed as provided by the complainants on behalf of actual subscribers.
A citizen Hassan Raza compIaining on the issue said, “I’m a permanent resident of Islamabad and there is no single electric meter in my name but I still receive updates about Company Bagh’s Murree Feeder and billing information on a connection.
Another complainat Shahid Qamer said he also receives messages from Roshni about a Kotli Sattiyan’s feeder maintenance and billing. “How my number was added to that locality while I am a permanent resident of Islamabad, he questioned. He asked IESCO to correct the data and ensure whether fake meters are not installed in-connivance of company’s black sheeps.