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Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan Speech Punjab Government 100 Days Achievement Ceremony Lahore (22.12.18)
Prime Minister Imran Khan resolved that the government would make no compromise on accountability process as it were the people who bore the brunt of corruption.
Addressing the event ‘Delivering Prime Minister’s 100 Days Agenda’ to highlight the performance of the Punjab government during first 100 days, the prime minister said he said the opposition in the National Assembly was ‘doing the drama’ of political victimization contrary to the fact that not even a single case had been registered by the incumbent government.
The event was attended by Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, provincial ministers, members of the Punjab Assembly, diplomats and party workers in a huge number.
The enthusiastic workers carrying party flags chanted slogans in support of the party, the prime minister and the chief minister.
The prime minister recalled that the fake bank accounts had first surfaced in 2015 but the then government put the matter under the carpet in name of Charter of Democracy.
“We have done nothing. But we have not impeded the action (against corruption),” he added.
He said it was strange that the opposition wanted to make Shehbaz Sharif, who was in the jail of NAB (National Accountability Bureau) for corruption, head of the Public Accounts Committee.
The previous government had passed a law allowing a corrupt man to head a political party, which was nothing but the mockery of the parliament, he added. The prime minister told the gathering that he had asked his party to accept the opposition’s every demand like issuance of the production order of Khawaja Saad Rafiq and making Shehbaz Sharif PAC chairman.
However, “we cannot agree to backtrack from the accountability” as it was inevitable for the secure future of the country and next generations, he added. The country’s future would remain imperiled until “we arrest the corrupt.”
The prime minister said he had launched his political career with the slogan against corruption and he would never make any compromise in the name of protecting democracy.
He censured the previous government for spending Rs 250 billion budget of South Punajb in other cities, what ,he said, had increased the sense of deprivation among the people of area. The disintegration of Pakistan was the consequence of such injustices with the people, he added.
He called for learning from the mistakes done in the past and also mentioned the injustices meted out to the people of Balochistan.
The prime minister appreciated the Punjab government for allocating exclusive budget for the South Punjab.
He said the non-development of remote areas put burden on major cities and cited the problems faced by the Lahore city like pollution and congestion.
The Pakistan International School of Damascus: The unreported and silent success story of diplomacy
Pakistan has played a quiet but important role in providing high quality education to Syrians from all walks of life.
Almost all the stories coming out of Syria over the last few years have been of doom and gloom. There has been much destruction to a land rooted in deep and unparalleled history, possessing two of the world’s oldest cities along with people who can easily be called the world’s most diverse set of communities coexisting peacefully; all before regional and international actors made it a battleground for proxy warfare.
Before the war, Syria had the most robust state education system in the Arab world, and even the BBC did an in-depth documentary on the diversity and progressive nature of the Syrian school system. It is these real stories of the Syrian school system and a healthcare system that once was the envy of the Arab world that need to be highlighted as Syria begins it slow but steady recovery towards normality.
It is here that Pakistan has played a quiet but important role in providing high quality education to Syrians from all walks of life. The Pakistan International School (PIS) of Damascus, which comes under the auspices of the Pakistani Embassy, has become a leading school in the country. Meanwhile, other international schools, such as the French School of Damascus and the American School, shut down as the war peaked in 2014 and 2015.
So what has the PIS done quietly that has made it a humanitarian and diplomatic success?
Graduation Day
Peter Oborne, one of Britain’s leading journalists, recently returned from a two-week trip to Syria and highlighted the resilience of the Syrian education system despite unjust sanctions, and focused on how the government is rebuilding schools and carrying out the national curriculum amongst the ruins. A regular visitor to Syria, Oborne also talks about the sense of normalcy and quiet stability that has returned to the streets, and how Syrians have started looking ahead almost immediately without stopping to think about the opportunities lost.
For the PIS, the story has been a similar one. The will and desire of the Syrian people to get on with education has helped the Pakistani Embassy run its school.
Orientation Day
During the first couple of years of the war, student numbers dropped dramatically and the school was hit with staffing problems and a lack of interest from the Foreign Office in Islamabad. However, under incumbent Ambassador to Syria Air Marshal (Retd) Rashid Kamal and his team of teachers, advisors and administrators, the school is looking to reach new heights.
In 2018, Kamal took over from Athar Bukhari, another very successful diplomat who came in at a very difficult time in 2015 and revived the overall diplomatic relations between Damascus and Islamabad. Kamal has taken these ties further, with a keen interest in capitalising on Syria’s huge human capital.
Career counselling
A cancer awareness campaign
The PIS caters not only to those families that can afford to pay, but gives need-based scholarships on the basis of merit and has also supported schools outside of Damascus hit by the war or the influx of internally-displaced people. The school has supported special needs and disabled children affected by the war.
Raising funds at a bake sale
Teacher training has been a particular focus of the current administration, and for the first time since the war, the Ambassador has made arrangements for an international school trip, while a potential student exchange program is in the pipeline, alongside bringing in coaches from the British Council or the University of Cambridge. The school has also enrolled children of other foreign diplomats serving in Damascus, as more and more embassies reopen while Syria gets ready to return to full diplomatic relations with the rest of the world.
Celebrating Christmas
According to Ambassador Kamal,
“For Pakistan, it has been the most important thing to provide world class education in times of extreme war – education is a fundamental right which should not be indulged with politics and sanctions. We are making sure we carry on the legacy of this school, but diversify in such a manner that it benefits the people of Syria.”
He goes on to say the Syrians are the most remarkable and positive people he has encountered in his career
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