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The Pakistan Society Newsletter January 2008 Newsletter – October 2014 Message from the Chairman Malala Yousafzai Awarded the Sir william Blackburne 2014 Nobel Peace Prize "The eagerly-awaited arrival in the UK of the new High Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Commissioner, HE Syed Ibne Abbas, and the exciting news of the Thorbjorn Jagland, announced at The Norwegian award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Malala Yousafzai are well Nobel Institute in Oslo on Friday, Oct 10, 2014, timed: the appearance of this newsletter provides the perfect that the Nobel Peace Prize 2014, is awarded opportunity to convey the Society's unqualified welcome to both of jointly to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi these important events. for risking their lives to fight for children’s rights. We in The Pakistan Society welcome the High Commissioner as Malala, 17, was shot in the head by a Taliban our Honorary President and look forward to a continuation of the gunman two years ago in Pakistan for insisting close and fruitful co-operation which has marked the relationship that girls also have the right to an education. of the Society with the High Commission over the more than 60 Kailash, 60, has been at the forefront of a global years of the Society's existence. I am confident that the new High movement to end child slavery and exploitative Commissioner will derive much much professional fulfilment in his child labour. new posting and, with Begum Abbas and their family, will find London a friendly and absorbing place in which to make their Malala is the second Nobel Prize winner from home. We shall certainly do all we can to make them feel Pakistan after Prof Abdus Salam NI SPk KBE, welcome. In wishing the new arrivals well we also thank Mr Imran the forty-seventh woman to win the Nobel Prize, Mirza for the exemplary manner in which he has acted as charge and the youngest winner of a Nobel Prize in any d'affaires while awaiting the new appointment. field. Congratulations Malala and kailash! The bestowal of the Nobel Peace Prize upon Malala prompts two The Nobel Prize In this issue: immediate thoughts. First, unqualified delight that this most “For benefit to mankind” Nobel Peace Prize P2 prestigious of awards recognises the signal courage that Malala New High Commissioner P3 NATO Summit 2014 P4 has displayed, in defiance of those who seek to turn the clock HM Ambassador P5 back to some imaginary and less enlightened age, in campaigning Associate CERN Member P5 for the entitlement of all children, and girls in particular, to be The Nobel Peace Prize 61st Annual Dinner P6 properly educated. It gives explicit recognition to the right of Independence Day P8 will be presented on News in Pictures P9 females to strive for personal fulfilment without discrimination on 10th December 2014 in Civil Awards P11 the grounds of gender or social status. Second, a sense of pride the Oslo City Hall by the Recent Events P11 that it is from Pakistan, so often maligned in the world's news Chairman of the Forthcoming Events P12 media, that the person comes who is leading this campaign. Norwegian Nobel Other Events P13 ________________________ Awarding the prize jointly with Kailash Satyarthi reminds us that Committee in the presence of the King of Next Event: Talk by Dr the problems of a misconceived medievalism are by no means the Norway. The Nobel Rossie Llewellyn-Jones preserve of the Muslim world and that the lands east of the Indus Prize amount for 2014 is At 6pm on Wednesday, suffer too and must struggle against evils every bit as malign as set at Swedish kronor October 29, 2014 at High those which Malala seeks to combat. The Society salutes and (SEK) 8.0 million Commission for Pakistan, congratulates the exceptional teenager from Swat." ($1.25M). London SW1X 8JN 1 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Malala Yousafzai has been awarded the following national and international honours: 2011 International Children's Peace Prize (nominee). 2011 National Youth Peace Prize. 2012 Sitara-e-Shujaat, Pakistan's third-highest civilian bravery award. 2012 Foreign Policy magazine top 100 global thinker. 2012 Time magazine Person of the Year shortlist. 2012 Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social .Justice. 2012 Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action. 2013 Top Name of 2012 in Annual Survey of Global English. High Commissioner for Pakistan to the UK, HE Syed Ibne Abbas 2013 Simone de Beauvoir Prize. presenting flowers to Malala on behalf of the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan on her award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 Memminger Freiheitspreis 1525 Award. Birmingham on 10 October 2014. Malala’s father Ziauddin Yousafzai 2013 Doughty Street Advocacy award of Index on and Consul General Shair Bhadur Khan are also present.. Censorship. 2013 Fred and Anne Jarvis Award of the UK National Union of Teachers. Tweets 2013 Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards, Global Trailblazer. 2013 One of Time's "100 Most Influential People In The World". 2013 Premi Internacional Catalunya Award of Catalonia. 2013 Annual Award for Development of the OPEC Fund for International Development. 2013 International Campaigner of the Year - Observer Ethical Awards. 2012 Tipperary International Peace Award - Ireland Tipperary Peace Convention. 2013 International Children’s Peace Prize – KidsRights. 2013 Portrait of Yousafzai by Jonathan Yeo displayed at National Portrait Gallery, London. 2013 Ambassador of Conscience Award - Amnesty International. 2013 Clinton Global Citizen - Clinton Foundation. 2013 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award - Harvard Foundation Harvard University. 2013 Anna Politkovskaya Award – Reach All Women In War. 2013 Reflections of Hope Award – Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought – European Parliament. 2013 Honorary Master of Arts degree - University of Edinburgh. 2013 Pride of Britain. 2013 Glamour magazine Woman of the Year. 2013 GG2 Hammer Award at GG2 Leadership Awards. 2013 International Prize for Equality and Non- Discrimination. 2014 Nominee for World Children's Prize. 2014 Skoll Global Treasure Award. Kristian Berg Harpviken, head of the Peace Research 2014 Honorary Doctor of Civil Law - University of Institute in Oslo, described the joint award “an innovative King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. prize that brings attention to the problems of the young”. 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Kailash Satyarthi. 2014 US Liberty Medal – The US National Constitution Centre. 2 New High Commissioner for Pakistan to the United Kingdom HE Syed Ibne Abbas and Mrs Sadaf Abbas HE Syed Ibne Abbas assumed charge on 4th October 2014. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in 1983. His last posting was as Additional Secretary Administration in Islamabad. He served as Deputy Secretary in Prime Minister’s Secretariat during the term of Benazir Bhutto, Malik Meraj Khalid and Nawaz Sharif. He has also been posted to Wellington as high Commissioner, Los Angeles as Consul General and New Delhi as deputy High Commissioner. Syed Ibne Abbas represented Pakistan and led delegations on several occasions on bilateral and multilateral fora. He attended the 1997 and 2006 UN General Assembly sessions as a Pakistan delegate. He represented Pakistan at the Conference on Disarmament and attended meetings of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC), and Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC). On his first day in the High Commission in London, His Excellency sent the following message to the British- Pakistani community: “It will be my earnest endeavour to unite the community for all our national causes. I also wish to assure you that the High Commission and four Consulates' General will re-double their efforts to serve the British-Pakistani community members with renewed zeal and vigour “Insha Allah”. Curriculum vitae Personal details: Name: Syed Ibne Abbas Married to: Sadaf Ibne Abbas Children: Three Sons Period Post MOFA, Additional Secretary 2013 – present Administration 2010 – 2013 Wellington, High Commissioner 2006 – 2010 Los Angeles, Consul General 2004 – 2006 MOFA, Director General South Asia New Delhi, Deputy High 2001 – 2004 Commissioner 1998 – 2001 Canberra, Prime Minister’s Secretariat, Deputy 1995 – 1997 Secretary 1992 – 1994 Geneva, 1989 – 1992 Berne, HE Syed Ibne Abbas, Pakistan High Commissioner for 1983 Joined Foreign Service of Pakistan UK interacting with the British Pakistani media at the High Commission for Pakistan London on 21-10-2014 3 NATO Summit 2014 Addressing the main session on Afghanistan, Mr Mirza said that Pakistan and NATO shared common objectives of promoting global peace and were partners in the international coalition against terrorism. He commended NATO's sustained engagement with Afghanistan and termed peace, stability and deepening of democracy in Afghanistan of vital interest to Pakistan. The Acting High Commissioner said that the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was committed to the policy of peaceful neighbourhood and attainment of socio- economic progress, and hoped for a similar reciprocity from neighbours including Afghanistan. Mr Imran Mirza also attended the reception hosted by HRH Prince of Wales for the world leaders attending the Summit and the dinner hosted by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in honour of the Heads of Delegations. NATO-Pakistan Relations Acting High Commissioner Mohammad Imran Over recent years, NATO has developed relations Mirza led the Pakistan delegation to the NATO with a range of countries beyond the Euro-Atlantic Summit 2014. The two-day conference was area. Pakistan is counted among these countries, held at the Celtic Manor Resort near the city of which are referred to as “partners across the globe.” Newport in Wales, United Kingdom on 4-5 NATO’s relations with the country have developed September 2014. progressively since the Alliance assisted Pakistan following the devastating earthquake in 2005. This was the first NATO summit since Chicago in Political dialogue and practical cooperation have 2012, and the first NATO summit in the United since expanded significantly, in particular on Kingdom since Margaret Thatcher welcomed NATO Afghanistan.
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