Islamabad—Speaker National Assembly Dr. Fehmida
Mirza on Friday said that children are the hope
of mankind and continuity of human race and
needed to be protected from degrading living
conditions, violence, drug trafficking, child
labor and other abuses. She said this in her
message on the Universal Children’s Day being
commemorated today throughout the globe.
Lt. General ® Mujib-ur-Rehman Khan became a
victim of pneumonia on Thursday, November 19,
and went up in the heaven, I am sure, quite
gladly so that he may perhaps be in the company
of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, for whose
projection in the right perspective, he was
striving hard for the last few years. The
three-star General had turned himself into a
soldier of the founder of Pakistan to whom he
would confidently describe, with his wet eyes as
an Ashiq-i-Rasool.
Islamabad—In order to cope with
any natural calamity or disastrous situations of
collapsed structures, the NDMA Friday commenced
second phase of National Urban Search and Rescue
Mock Exercise here. In this regard, two USAR
teams were raised - one each for Karachi and
Islamabad - to enhance the national emergency
response capacity in the country.
Islamabad—National Institute of Folk and
Traditional Heritage, Lok Virsa participated in
the Second Contest on Better Practices in
Communities held in Tokyo, Japan through its
entry/ presentation on the topic “Revival of
Performing Arts in Baltistan”.
Islamabad—Save the Children and Plan Pakistan
marked the Universal Children’s Day today
commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the United
Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The celebration, under the auspices of the
national 20 to 20 Campaign reiterated the need
for implementing the Child Protection Criminal
Laws Amendment Bill 2009 and the National
Commission on the Rights of Children Bill 2009
in Pakistan, to ensure security and protection
of 75 million children in the country.
