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Peshawar, October 14, 2021 (PPI-OT):Provisional Merit List of Undergraduate Program for the Session 2021-22 is uploaded. For details, follow below link:
http://www.uop.edu.pk/admissions/?q=meritlist
For more information, contact:
Media and Protocol Officer
University of Peshawar
Tel: +92-91-9218463
Email: mpo@upesh.edu.pk
Website: www.upesh.edu.pk
Lahore, October 14, 2021 (PPI-OT):As the humanitarian crisis unfolds in war-torn Afghanistan, a delegation of Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan led by Dr Hafeez-ur-Rehman and Khalid Waqas has arrived in Kabul, the capital of the country to determine a route for the provision of relief activities. The delegation called on the Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan, Mansoor Ahmad Khan and conveyed the decision of Alkhidmat’s Central Board of Management that Alkhidmat Foundation would do its best to provide much-needed relief to the people of Afghanistan amid the existing state of affairs.
Humanitarian work aimed to mitigate the woes of the IDPs in Kabul is the top-notch priority of the Alkhidmat Foundation, communicated the Alkhidmat delegation. Later, the delegation also paid a visit to the IDP camp to analyse the gravity of the situation prior to launching the relief activities. Ambassador Mansoor Ahmed Khan highly lauded the sincere efforts of the Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan for instilling a ray of hope for the people of Afghanistan in these trying times.
He said Alkhidmat as usual has proved to be at the forefront of relief operations intended for impacting vulnerable lives. During the first phase of humanitarian assistance, Alkhidmat Foundation will provide dry rations to IDPs camps across Afghanistan and for this Peshawar route is to be used to dispatch relief goods to deliver them to Kabul.
For more information, contact:
Al-Khidmat Foundation Pakistan
711, Block J-2 Johar Town, Lahore, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42 35957260
Fax: +92-42 35957261
Email: info@al-khidmatfoundation.org
Website: http://al-khidmatfoundation.org/
Lahore, October 14, 2021 (PPI-OT):Pakistan Cricket Board today provisionally suspended Zeeshan Malik of Northern Cricket Association under Article 4.7.1 of the PCB Anti-Corruption Code, which means he cannot take part in any cricket-related activity pending the investigation being carried out by PCB’s Anti-Corruption Unit.
Article 4.7.1 read as: Where either: (a) the PCB decides to charge a Participant with an offence under this Anti-Corruption Code; or (b) the PCB considers that there are other exceptional circumstances relevant to a Participant (for example, where any relevant police authority has arrested and/or charged a Participant with an offence under any relevant criminal law in respect of facts or circumstances that may also constitute an offence under this Anti-Corruption Code), it shall have the discretion, in circumstances where it considers that the integrity of the sport could otherwise be seriously undermined, to Provisionally Suspend the Participant pending the Anti-Corruption Tribunal’s determination of whether he/she has committed an offence. Any decision to Provisionally Suspend the Participant will be communicated to the Participant in writing, with a copy sent at the same time to the ICC and, where applicable, the National Cricket Federation to which the Participant is affiliated.
As this is an ongoing investigation, the PCB will not make any further comments.
PCB Anti-Corruption Code is available here:
https://www.pcb.com.pk/downloads/PCB Anti-Corruption Code for Participants – updated w.e.f 27.02.21.pdf
For more information, contact:
Media Manager,
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore 54600, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42-5717231-4
Fax: +92-42-5711860
Website: www.pcb.com.pk
Karachi, October 14, 2021 (PPI-OT):Shakeel Akhter, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Indus Hospital and Health Network (IHHN) has been recognized as a “Legend” for this work at the World CIO 200 Summit Recognition Awards. Shakeel Akhter is also among 13 other Pakistani CIOs to be selected for the Global CIO Forum’s Book of Titans. The Book of Titans is a special yearbook that celebrates the success of the world’s top 200 CIOs of the digital world and their projects.
Akhter – one of the earliest IT graduates in Pakistan, has been associated with the health IT industry since 1996. Pioneer of Pakistan’s first paperless hospital, The Indus Hospital, he created a Hospital Management and Information System that is efficient, cost-effective, and environment-friendly. Additionally, he and his team set up an Electronic Medical Record system which was one-of-a-kind in Pakistan.
For Akhter, ease of patient, prompt information availability to caregivers, and support data to decision-makers and hospital management makes a project transformative. He also believes that the primary goal of the business is customer experience. When asked what makes IHHN the “workplace of the future”, he said, “The Indus Hospital will be smart hospital where use of technology would be available at all steps of patient care and management.”
“I personally believe; this award is a result of 450,000/month patients prayers to whom Indus is serving for free of cost. This award means a lot to the IT department and me. Through this forum, it is the second consecutive year; we have been recognized as Pakistan’s first paperless hospital by the international IT community. I am proud of my team and grateful to the management for their support.”
World CIO 200 Summit
The World CIO 200 Summit was established in 2017. The CIO 200 is a multi-country CIO felicitation ceremony that recognizes the achievements of the ‘Digital leaders’ of today. After touring 26 countries in 2020, the 2021 roadshow is touring 36 countries.
Global CIO Forum is a non-profit community of CIOs and IT leaders whose mission is to facilitate networking, sharing of best practices and executive development, and to collaborate on issues faced by the CIOs/IT Executives.
For more information, contact
The Indus Hospital (TIH)
C-76, Sector 31/5, Opposite Darussalam Society,
Korangi Crossing, Karachi – 75190, Pakistan
Tel: +92-21-35112709-17
Fax: +92-21-35112718
Email: crd@indushospital.org.pk
Website: http://www.indushospital.org.pk/
Islamabad, October 14, 2021 (PPI-OT):According to a survey conducted by Gallup and Gilani Pakistan, 24% of Pakistanis claim that they know someone in their social circle who has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
Complete report for Wave 12 of the COVID-19 tracker survey can be accessed here:
https://gallup.com.pk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Gallup-COVID-19-Tracker-Wave-12.pdf
A nationally representative sample of adult men and women from across the four provinces was asked the following question, “Do you know someone in your social circle who has been diagnosed with COVID-19?” In response to this question, 24 % said yes, 75% said no, while 1% did not know or did not provide any response.
Question: “Do you know someone in your social circle who has been diagnosed with COVID-19?”
For more information, contact:
Head Office,
Gallup Pakistan
Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel: +92-51-8445080
Email: isb@gallup.com.pk, caf@gallup.com.pk
Website: www.gallup.com.pk
VIENNA, Austria, Oct. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — This year’s Energizing Finance research series – developed by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) in partnership with Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and Dalberg Advisors – shows the world is falling perilously short of the investment required to achieve energy access for all by 2030 for the seventh consecutive year.
In fact, tracked finance for electricity in the 20 countries that make up 80 percent of the world’s population without electricity – the high-impact countries – declined by 27 percent in 2019, the year before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The economic strain caused by Covid-19 is expected to have caused even further reductions in energy access investment in 2020 and 2021.
Energizing Finance: Understanding the Landscape 2021, one of two reports released under the series, finds committed finance for residential electricity access fell to USD 12.9 billion in 2019 (from USD 16.1 billion in 2018) in the 20 countries. This is less than one-third of the USD 41 billion estimated annual investment needed globally to attain universal electricity access from 2019 to 2030.
Meanwhile, there is an abysmal amount of finance for clean cooking. Despite polluting cooking fuels causing millions of premature deaths each year and being the second largest contributor to climate change after carbon dioxide, only USD 133.5 million in finance for clean cooking solutions was tracked in 2019. This is nowhere near the estimated USD 4.5 billion in annual investment required to achieve universal access to clean cooking (accounting only for clean cookstove costs).
These findings have been released just ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, where global leaders will focus on how to spark meaningful progress on fighting climate change. As part of this, they will need to consider how to reduce global emissions from the energy sector while also increasing energy access in developing countries to support their economic development.
“We are at a critical moment in the energy-climate conversation,” said Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy. “What is clear is that the path to net zero can only happen with a just and equitable energy transition that provides access to clean and affordable energy to the 759 million people who have no electricity access and 2.6 billion people who lack access to clean cooking solutions. This requires resources to mitigate climate change and create new opportunities to drive economic development and enable people everywhere to thrive. Energizing Finance provides an evidence base of current energy finance commitments and the finance countries require to meet SDG7 energy targets.”
In 2018, 50 percent of total electricity finance flowed to grid-connected fossil fuels in the high-impact countries compared to 25 percent in 2019. While this is a positive trend for the climate, tracked investment in off-grid and mini-grid technology also declined and represented only 0.9 percent of finance tracked to electricity.
Dr. Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director at CPI, who partnered with SEforALL on Energizing Finance: Understanding the Landscape 2021, said: “Achieving both the Paris Agreement and universal energy access requires far greater investment in grid-connected renewables and off-grid and mini-grid solutions than what has been tracked in Energizing Finance. These solutions are essential to helping high-impact countries develop their economies without a reliance on fossil fuels.”
To better illuminate the challenges high-impact countries face, the second publication in the series, Energizing Finance: Taking the Pulse 2021, offers a detailed look at the estimated volume and type of finance needed by enterprises and customers to achieve universal energy access for both electricity and clean cooking by 2030 in Mozambique, Ghana and Vietnam. Importantly, it illustrates the energy affordability challenges people face in these countries and the need for financial support for consumers, such as subsidies.
The report finds that providing access to clean fuels and technologies, i.e. modern energy cooking solutions, in Ghana, Mozambique and Vietnam will cost a total of USD 37-48 billion by 2030; 70 percent of which will be for fuels (e.g., LPG, ethanol and electricity). A more achievable scenario would be for all three countries to deliver universal access to improved cookstoves at a total cost of USD 1.05 billion by 2030.
“Ghana, Mozambique and Vietnam each have unique challenges to achieving universal access to electricity and clean cooking,” said Aly-Khan Jamal, Partner at Dalberg Advisors, who partnered with SEforALL on Energizing Finance: Taking the Pulse 2021. “This research digs deep into these national contexts to identify solutions that can make Sustainable Development Goal 7 a reality.”
Providing results-based financing for energy project developers and exploring policies that facilitate demand-side subsidy support and reduce taxes on solar home systems are among several policy recommendations presented for Ghana, Mozambique and Vietnam.
Energizing Finance also advocates for increased innovation in financial instruments to reach the scale of finance needed for universal clean cooking access; for integration of electricity access, cooking access and climate change strategies; and for national governments, bilateral donors, philanthropies, and DFIs to all increase their efforts to mobilize commercial capital to Sub-Saharan African countries.
More of the reports’ key findings and recommendations are available here.
Notes to editors
Contact
For further details on the reports or any interview requests, please contact: Sherry Kennedy, Sustainable Energy for All: Sherry.Kennedy@SEforALL.org / media@seforall.org or +43 676 846 727 237
About Sustainable Energy for All
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) is an international organization that works in partnership with the United Nations and leaders in government, the private sector, financial institutions, civil society and philanthropies to drive faster action towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) – access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030 – in line with the Paris Agreement on climate. SEforALL works to ensure a clean energy transition that leaves no one behind and brings new opportunities for everyone to fulfill their potential.
SEforALL is led by Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy. Follow her on Twitter @DamilolaSDG7. For more information, follow @SEforALLorg.
