Sami condemns suicide attack on JUI-F convoy

NOWSHERA: Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) Maulana Samiul Haq on Saturday condemned the suicide attack on the JUI-F leader and Senate Deputy Chairman Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri and asked the government to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Talking to reporters at Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak town of the Nowshera district, the Maulana likened it to an attack on the Parliament. He said such cowardly acts cannot shatter the resolve of the nation.

He said that enemies of the country were trying to fan violence and destabalise the country. He said that there was a need for keeping a strict check on the internal and external enemies, adding the enemies could not digest the multi-billion dollars China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Maulana Samiul Haq said that spies and agents of enemies were active in Balochistan province and carrying anti-Pakistan agenda. He said the law enforcement agencies had failed to expose and arrest these elements. He said the Defence of Pakistan Council, JUI-S and other religious and like-minded political parties had opposed the barbaric and coward acts of terrorism and were playing an active role to create unity among people of various caste, class, creed and sects.

 

The News Education Expo 17 attracts record crowd

Faisalabad mayor says he feels proud of citizens’ participation; top institutions establish stalls

News Desk

FAISALABAD: Pakistan’s biggest education exhibition, The News Education Expo 17, was held at the Royalton Hotel under the aegis of Jang Group on Saturday.

Faisalabad Mayor Razzaq Malik inaugurated the event. Jang Group’s Irfan Ashraf, Irfan Mughal, Abdul Waheed and other were also present on the occasion.

Prominent higher education institutions established there stalls where a large number of citizens got information about different programmes. Entry was free for students.

The mayor, on the occasion, said the huge number of people attending the event was a surprise for him. He was proud of the fact the citizens of Faisalabad were entering the era of modern technology, leaving behind the obsolete culture, which was the demand of the current era, Malik added.

He said it wasn’t the age of wasting time and lethargy, adding that adapting to the present time was vital for progress, which was impossible without modern and higher education.

Shehzad and Shazia, two local students, said organising such events was necessary because it provided the opportunity to get information about both state-run and private institutions, enabling them to select the subjects for further studies.