A documentary on Saturday highlighted the dy-namic and leading role of President Dr Arif Alvi over various national and international issues during 2021, with overarching efforts to resolve them.
A 14:29 minutes “2021 and The Presidency – A documentary on activities of 2021” presents brief insight into the activities of the president on array of issues ranging from Covid 19 pandemic, economic, women education, skills development, IT education to Kashmir issue and Islamophobia.
During 2021, the country faced economic issues due to global Coronavirus pandemic. The president opined that Covid remained a challenge for the economy. But the nation showed to the world, a will to survive and overcome the challenge through intellectual talent.
Recounting government’s achievements during the last year, he said Prime Minister Imran Khan effec-tively raised the issue of blasphemy and Islamopho-bia, which also found way in the recent comments of Russian President Vladmir Putin, besides hosting of Organization of Islamic Cooperation foreign ministers conference, which were the big achieve-ments of the country in last year.
The documentary highlighted 1MW solar Green Presidency initiative which helped generate over 1.4 million units annually, thus saving Rs 84.56 million.
The president commented that now the Presidency was running on surplus energy and earning. The green initiative also earned ISO 50001 energy man-agement system certification and became the first-ever presidency in the world to run on green energy.
Besides, 10,000 new saplings and Miyawaki jungle were planted in the Presidency, with introduction of the latest solid waste system.
The president and Begum Samina Alvi had been very vocal for the cause of women welfare during the last year, especially issues related to women’s inheritance, breast cancer, implementation of rele-vant laws and public awareness.
The president said they made hectic efforts for the women’s inheritance rights as the laws existed in the country, but were not implemented.
Besides, they stressed upon financial empowerment of women. Skills training and Information Technol-ogy education were the other fields for females which were fervently advocated.
For the first time in country’s history, the president along with Begum Alvi launched massive public awareness campaign over the breast cancer.
Due to these efforts, positive outcome was achieved. During coronavirus pandemic, role of ulema, mosque and pulpit was highlighted through conven-ing of meetings and holding of regular events.
Khutba-e-Jumma has now become an important and regular feature of the presidency in which a number of notable religious scholars and ulema deliver ser-mons on significant topics on every Friday.
The president had also remained an ardent advocate for the promotion of Information Technology (IT) education and knowledge in the county.
He stressed upon the adequate training and in-creased enrollment of students in the IT sector.
The president underlined that he was already cogni-zant of the IT significance and the role of online education.
Besides, after a number of meetings with the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and vice chancellors, the HEC devised a policy to prevent and eradicate drug abuse issue in the universities.
President Dr Alvi through strenuous efforts at the Presidency created awareness for the issues con-fronted by the differentially-abled persons.
In this connection, various events were arranged last year at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, while directives were issues for extending facilities to these people in the society. Free education and scholarships for differ-ently-abled persons were ensured through an effec-tive policy.
As Chairman of IT Task Force, the president also held different meetings in this regard and stressed upon skills development and training for the young people.
The president also remained in the forefronts for a free and transparent voting system in the country including use of Electronic Voting Machines and the internet voting.
During last year, the president also undertook offi-cial visits to Turkey and Dubai whereas in Turk-menistan, he represented Pakistan at the Economic Cooperation Organization.
He also held important meetings with the senior leadership of different countries and highlighted vital issues like Kashmir, Palestine and Islamopho-bia.
A large number of people also benefited from the prompt functioning of the Federal Ombudsman office.
The president said any public complaint was being resolved within 58 days.
