people especially at village level and also to facilitate them on the basis of kinship at colony, baradri and city level. In the end, the guests distributed gifts and bouquets among the special people.
SUPER children: Punjab University Child Welfare Centre (PUCWC) on Thursday observed the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by paying tribute to the victims of Army Public School.
According to a press release, a group of special children of PUCWC presented a tableau sketching the cowardly attack on schoolchildren and Pakistan Army’s bravely response to the terrorists. The children gave the message that nation is united against terrorists.
The event was organised at the Al Raazi Hall of Undergraduate Studies in which Principal Law College Dr Shazia Qureshi, Dean Faculty of Education Dr Mumtaz Akhtar, PUCWC Principal Ayesha Wajihullah, social worker Raja Munawar, Humaira Bano, Vice-President ASA Dr Abid Hussain Chaudhry, Secretary Dr Mahbbob Hussain, teachers and a large number of special children were present.
Addressing the ceremony, Dr Shazia Qureshi said Allah has bestowed special children with special abilities and they are also full of talent. She lauded the performance of the special children who performed various activities on the stage that had attracted a huge applause. Raja Munawar said it was better to call the children with disabilities as super children. Dr Abid Hussain Chaudhry said that mass-scale activities must be organised so that people could know about the abilities of the special children. The children also performed ‘sufi raqs’, Qawali and other activities.
Tevta: An MoU signing ceremony between Tevta and Pakistan Leather Competitiveness Improvement Programme (PLCIP) consortium was held at TEVTA Secretariat.
According to a press release issued on Thursday, through this MoU, international consultants will be hired for skill up-gradation of TEVTA and industry experts in line with the modern international market requirements. The MoU was signed by Chairperson TEVTA Irfan Qaiser Sheikh and Project Director PLCIP consortium Usman H. Malik. Chief Operating Officer TEVTA Jawad Ahmad Qureshi, Akhtar Abbas Bharwana, Mustafa Kamal Pasha, Amer Hassan, Aisha Qazi, Sarfaz Anwar and other Tevta officers were also present. Representatives from PLCIP Muhammad Younis, Abid Hafeez and Nasir Anwar Sheikh attended the ceremony as well.
Irfan Qaiser Sheikh, disclosing the details of the MoU, said, Tevta will provide training facilities at its Leather Service Centres located at Gujranwala and Kasur. Training material will be developed with the help of local and international consultants in the fields of genuine leather cutting, shoe upper stitching, shoemaking, leather goods manufacturing, CAD/CAM technology for shoe and leather goods. This MoU will be an open door for Tevta to international linkages of renowned institutions in the leather field, he further added