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Newsletter Œ January 2007 Newsletter – January 2007 His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and Duchess Message from the Chairman of Cornwall visit Pakistan The Prince and The Duchess toured Pakistan I have now been the Chairman for one year. We for the first time and have had some excellent events during that visited Islamabad, Lahore, time. Thank you all for attending and making and Azad Kashmir. The them fun. We would welcome more people specific themes of the visit attending and so if you have friends who are not were inter-faith issues; members do bring them along and encourage education and youth them to join. The Committee is very keen to entrepreneurship; and increase the membership and, in particular to sustainable development. attract more young people. However we feel if we are to do this we must run a decent and 30 October 2006 informative web site. Thanks to the generosity of Their Royal Highnesses met the President General Pervez Humayun Mughal we now have a new (actually Musharraf, First Lady Begum Sehba Musharraf, and Prime the first!) Computer and we are looking to Minister Shaukat Aziz. The discussions ranged over various relaunch the website sometime in the Summer. topics including the need for inter-faith dialogue, closer We do understand if members don’t have access relationship between UK and Pakistan, and the two countries' to e-mail and we will continue to use snail mail closer co-operation on issues of global interest. The Prince although it is much cheaper (and quicker) to spoke of Britain's gratitude to Pakistan over its help in the fight keep you updated by e-mail. against terrorism, particularly following the London bomb attacks. The Prince and the Prime Minister also attended an Can I make a plea that as many of you as event to launch Pakistan's Youth Business International th scheme. The YBI project - a programme of The Prince's possible attend the 54 Annual Dinner on Wednesday 27th June at Lincoln’s Inn. As you all International Business Leader Forum - will aim to help th disadvantaged young people in Pakistan make it in business know it is the 60 Anniversary of the Founding of as entrepreneurs. Razia Anwar travelled from Blackburn, Pakistan and I am hoping to have a couple of Lancashire, to Islamabad to talk about how she was helped very special guests. Finally and on your behalf similarly by The Prince's Trust through a mentor and a loan of can I thank your hard working Committee and in £5,000 which allowed her to set up a beauty company. The particular Shama our ever present and hard Prince met young Pakistani entrepreneurs and enjoyed the working Secretary and Emran our Treasurer. best of Pakistani music with Shahzad Roy and Hadiqa Kiyani. Without them nothing would happen! I look Prince Charles also met representatives of the Pakistani 12th forward to seeing you and your friends at many Cavalry and 7th Battalion, the Baluch Regiment connected to events in 2007. Best Wishes. Anthony Palmer the Prince of Wales's own. Continued on page 2. In this issue: Prime Minister Tony Blair’s third visit to Pakistan UK Honours P2 Royal visit Cont. P2 Richard Symonds P3 Prime Minister Tony Blair was given a warm welcome when he Please Renew Your AGM Notice P4 visited Pakistan 18-19 November 2006. The President and the Annual Membership Business News P5 Sports News P6 Prime Minister underlined the deep ties between the two Subscription countries, strengthened by the approximately one million Members in the News P6 New Books P7 British citizens of Pakistani heritage in the UK. They welcomed The annual Membership Recent Events P8 an increase in the number of UK-Pakistan University fee for 2007 is now due. Society Events P8 Partnerships from 15 to 50, which will enhance mutual Other Events P9 understanding. Tony Blair, signed a new 10 year Development Please complete the Membership form P10 attached membership _____________________ Partnership Arrangement between the UK and Pakistan. The form and return it to the Next Event: Tourism in Prime Minister also announced a doubling of UK aid to Treasurer. This notice Pakistan: Perception vs Pakistan, from £236 million for the period 2005 to 2008, up to does not apply to Reality at 6pm on £480 million for the period 2008 to 2011. The President and Tuesday, 23 January 2007 Members who pay by at the High Commission for the Prime Minister agreed to hold the Fourth Pakistan-UK Bankers Order. Pakistan, London. Summit Meeting in London in 2007 on a mutually convenient date. 1 Their Royal Highnesses visit to Pakistan New Year’s continued from page 1 Honours 2007 31 October 2006 The Prince of Wales delivered his keynote address to the The British honours faculty and students of Fatima Jinnah University system is one of the Rawalpindi. Their Royal Highnesses also visited the oldest in the world. Taxila Museum and the ancient remains of the Buddhist It has evolved over University in Jolian. 650 years as the country has found alternative means of recognising 1 November 2006 merit, gallantry and service. The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall witnessed the devastation caused by the earthquake in The largest number of awards goes to those providing Azad Kashmir and saw how survivors were trying to services to their local communities - mainly volunteers. rebuild their lives. Their Royal Highnesses travelled to Pattika, a tiny mountain town just north of Muzaffarabad, Honours are normally awarded twice a year. A list which was ravaged by the earthquake. The Prince, is published on The Queen's Birthday in June and Patron of the British Red Cross, and The Duchess saw at the New Year how aid workers from the ICRC were helping with the reconstruction work. Their Royal Highnesses were shown OBE a health clinic, set up by the ICRC, and a girls' school Prof Muhammad Anwar, Prof of Ethnic Relations University of Warwick, for services to higher where the pupils are being taught in tents. education. John Holland, Director of Operations, RAPID UK, for 2 November 2006 services to international rescue. The Prince of Wales and Frederick Payne, Director RAPID UK, for services to The Duchess of Cornwall international rescue. visited Badshahi mosque, a Cllr Mohammed Khan, Blackburn with Darwen Sikh temple and an Borough Council, for services to local government. Anglican cathedral during a Mohammad Tufail, Director, Racial Equality Council, day trip to Lahore. Later for services to community relations in Oldham. they joined a reception held MBE in the Bishop of Lahore’s Misbah Sultana Hussain, for services to Asian garden where they met communities in South Yorkshire. representatives of the community of the Church of Dr Iftikhar Ahmed Lone JP, Middlesbrough, for Pakistan. The Prince also attended a seminar on services to health care. interfaith where he was joined by the Governor of Punjab Mohammad Aslam, for services to the community in Khalid Maqbool. Croydon. Raja Mohmammed Amin JP, for services to the 3 November 2006 community in Birmingham. Their Royal Highnesses and The Aga Khan visited Syed Kifayat Hussain Kazmi, for services to organic village in the tiny dwelling of Nansoq 7,000 feet community in Derby. above sea level in the Himalayas. The Duchess was Diplomatic Service and Overseas given a small ornate green and silver cap by locals. The OBE Prince was presented with a 23-stone yak when he Vincent Richard Harris, for services to British visited the village of Altit on the other side of the river in business interests in Pakistan. the Karakoram range. The Prince and The Duchess Dr Molly Elizabeth Pont, for services to medical handed the yak back to the village as a goodwill gesture. health care in Quetta, Pakistan. Altit is situated around a 900-year-old fort and The Prince and The Duchess saw how the Aga Khan’s Cultural MBE Service is helping the village prepare for a tourism boom Jonathan Mark Turner, formerly Third Secretary, British High Commission, Islamabad. expected to follow the conservation of ancient fort. Islamabad Welcomes New British High Commissioner Robert Brinkley CMG, the new British High Commissioner to Pakistan, arrived in Islamabad on 3 December. He replaced Sir Mark Lyall Grant KCMG, who has returned to London to take up a new appointment. “I'm delighted to have arrived here in Pakistan as the new British High Commissioner, at what is a very exciting time for Pakistan and for its relations with the United Kingdom. With around 1 million British citizens claiming Pakistani heritage, and US$2bn worth of trade flowing between our two countries each year, there is much that unites us. The two high-level visits we had just before I arrived - those of the Prince of Wales and the Prime Minister, Tony Blair - illustrates how important this relationship is to the United Kingdom.” About the High Commissioner: Robert Brinkley was announced as the new High Commissioner to Pakistan in July 2006. He was previously the British Ambassador in Ukraine, he was head of what is now known as UKvisas. He has also served in Moscow (twice), Bonn and Geneva. He is accompanied by his wife Mary. They have three sons. 2 Obituary John Richard Charters Symonds A great friend of Pakistan By Iftikhar H. Malik Position under the UN auspices before assuming John Richard Charters Symonds, academic positions at the universities in Sussex and known as Richard to his friends, Oxford. While an undergraduate at Corpus Christi, was 87 when he passed away in his he joined a five-member British student delegation to native Oxford on July 15, 2006, a Spain to witness the rise of General Franco and its few kilometres from the house cost to society at large.
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