IGP calls meeting to promote traffic wardens

LAHORE

Inspector General of Police, Punjab, Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera has said that the promotion board meeting should be conducted within one month to promote traffic wardens according to seniority.

The IGP stated this while chairing a meeting at Central Police Office on Tuesday. He directed that no delay in promotion board meeting would  be tolerated. The traffic wardens qualifying for promotion should immediately be promoted after setting service structure, he said. IGP directed the Punjab Traffic DIG to submit brief summary of seats vacated after completion of seniority list and in result of promotions granted through promotion board meeting. 

The IGP directed the additional IGP Training, to make monitoring system of police training centres more effective to check performance of trainee police officials. He said the additional IGP Training and DIG Training should regularly visit training centres of Punjab to monitor progress of training courses and to personally meet trainers and trainee officials. Security of the training centers should also be given top priority and regular monitoring of security arrangements be ensured, he added. 

He directed the DIG SPU that training of National Protection Unit officials and daily briefing of officials deployed on different projects should be ensured. 

Farewell: A farewell ceremony in honour of Punjab Additional IG Establishment Dr Arif Mushtaq was held on Tuesday.

Addressing the event, the inspector general of police said that honest and hard working police officers and officials were pride of Punjab Police Department and Dr Arif was one of them.  The IGP also presented souvenir to DIG Arif Mushtaq.

OPC: Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC) Punjab Commissioner Afzaal Bhatti has instructed the officers concerned of Lahore district to evolve a effective strategy for addressing the pending complaints of overseas Pakistanis. 

He was chairing a meeting of the District Overseas Pakistanis Committee (DOPC), Lahore, on Tuesday.  OPC DG Syed Javed Iqbal Bukhari, CCPO Captain (R) Muhammad Ameen Wains, DIG Operations Dr Haider Ashraf and other officers of Lahore attended the meeting.

Afzaal Bhatti said that keeping in view the significance of the provincial metropolis, the role of the district committee was of great importance. He said that with the active participation of the committee, complaints of expatriates could be addressed early. He instructed that OPC Head Office should be informed time about the  proceedings on the complaints be intimated and implementation on the decisions of the DOPC be ensured. During the meeting ,certain complaints of overseas Pakistanis were also reviewed and the OPC commissioner issued instructions to the officers concerned to settle the issues.

'Chinese: China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will open new avenues of interaction between the two countries, and it has become crucial to learn the Chinese language to get the related benefits. 

It was stated by University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Faculty of Natural Sciences, Humanities and Islamic Studies Dean Prof Dr Shahid Rafique while addressing the students of the first-ever three-month Chinese language course arranged by Department of Humanities and Modern Languages.  

In charge Department of Humanities Alia Saleem said language was core attribute of any culture, adding that Chinese language had a rich history.