KARACHI CITY GOVT. INCREASE NUMBER OF STALLS IN SUNDAY BOOK FAIR

City District Government Karachi has increased the number of stalls held in the Sunday Book Fair in Frere Hall. More than 50 book stalls will be held in the Sunday Book Fair on 15th May where old and new books will be put on sale.

This may be noted that City District Government Karachi after a gap of 7 years resumed the weekly Sunday Book Fair in the historical Frere Hall on last Sunday. Large number of book lovers and families visited the book fair and appreciated the step taken by CDGK. Considering this appreciation, City Government had decided to increase the number of stalls in the book fair. The Sunday Book Fair in Frere Hall will be held from 8 a.m till 7 p.m every Sunday.

Arshad Ali to head FPCCI’s committee on Labour Manpower Export and Overseas Pakistanis

Syed Arshad Ali, a prominent name in the hospitality industry and a former chairman of the Pakistan Hotel Association, has been appointed as the Chairman of the FPCCI’s Standing Committee on Labour Manpower Export and Overseas Pakistanis.

Arshad Ali, Managing Director, Integrated Facilitators (Pvt) Ltd, has been assigned the responsibility by Senator Haji Ghulam Ali, President, Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI), for the year 2011.

ENRERCON AND SME LEASING LIMITED SIGN AN AGREEMENT TO PROMOTE ENERGY EFFICIENT EQUIPMENT AND DEVICES IN PAKISTAN

ENERCON and SME Leasing Limited, a subsidiary of SME Bank Limited, signed an agreement recently to promote the use of fuel efficient devices/equipments to control carbon emissions, in the transport sector of Pakistan, in particular and other energy efficient devices in general. As agreed by both the entities, ENERCON through SME Leasing Limited will be extending credit for lease finance facilities (at below market rates) for the equipment used for conservation of energy. The agreement was signed by Mr. Faridullah Khan –Managing Director – ENERCON and by Mrs. Arjumand A. Qazi - Chief Executive Officer - SME Leasing Limited in a meeting held at the ENERCON Head Office at Islamabad.

SME Leasing Limited specializes in providing financial solutions to small and medium enterprises in Pakistan. The company has been a pioneer in the field and has assisted in establishing several SMEs from the start to bringing them to a sizeable and bankable entity.

ENERCON is the national coordinating platform tasked with the vital and challenging mandate of efficiency culture change in the energy use in all sectors of economy. Being a cross sector challenge the support of private sector is absolutely vital for achieving the goal of national energy security through energy conservation (EC) and energy efficiency (EE) culture change. ENERCON welcomes the initiative of SME Leasing Limited for showing corporate social responsibility (CSR) by partnering with ENERCON for the national cause of energy EC and EE.