Award ceremony for Pakistan street children football team at Brazilian embassy

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - Islamabad—With a great applause and honour Pakistan Street Children Football team was welcomed to the embassy of Brazil at Islamabad. Embassy of Brazil arranged shields, awards, gifts and sumptuous lunch for the team on Monday. 

This is the second time the Embassy of Brazil hosted an event with Pakistan street children football team. The first time it was in March 2013, when the Embassy brought to Pakistan theBrazilian music group “Patubate” (who uses recycled and garbage items as musical instruments).

While welcoming the team, Ambassador Alfredo Leoni underlined importance of sports as a tool for social organizations and institutions to promote education and take children out of the streets. He praised the young Pakistani footballers for their achievement in Brazil, which will be an inspiration for all children in Pakistan. 

He thanked the presence at the event of representatives of Azad Foundation, Muslim Hands, Mashal Model School, Luttuce Bee Kids and Rah-e-Amal, and appreciated excellent work done by these institutions in helping children in need. He then distributed shields among Pakistani street children footballers, their coach, the Chairman of Azad Foundation and the director of Muslim Hands, as well as prizes for the winners of the football goal competition which marked beginning of the event. 

The ceremony was attended by members of Pakistan street children football team, their coach, Mr. Abdual Rashid, and representatives of the Pakistani institutions who supported the team: Mr. Naveed Hasan Khan (Chairman of Azad Foundation), Mr. Amjad Rasool (Director of Muslim Hands) and Mr. John Wroe, CEO of the NGO Street Child World Cup. 

The children from three institutions in Islamabad and Rawalpindi who deal with children in need: Mashal Model School, Lettuce Bee Kids and Rah-e-Amal; students of the Portuguese Language Course and the Capoeira (the traditional Brazilian wrestling sports) Course of the Embassy also enjoyed the football match arranged by the Embassy. Mr. Dan Dohrmann (Country Representative of UNICEF), Mr. Marc Saba (Country Representative of UNAIDS), Mr. David Skinner (Country Representative of Save the Children) and Ms. Nageen Hyatt (Director of Nomad Culture Centre) appreciated the sincere efforts of the ambassador Alferado Leoni who always takes keen interest in arranging such events for the people of Pakistan and believes in bringing the two nations closer and facilitating people to people interaction. 

The Street Child World Cup is a global movement for street children to promote protection of the street children and create and opportunities that all other children are entitled to. Ahead of each FIFA World Cup, they unite street children from across five continents to play football and unite in a unique international conference. Together through football, art and campaigning their aim is to challenge the negative perceptions and treatment of street children around the world.

Pakistani students win special award at Intel ISEF 2014

LOS ANGELES: The week-long Intel International Science and Education Fair 2014 came to an end over the weekend with the Grand Awards Ceremony held at the Los Angeles Convention Centre.

The Special Award winners included recipients from Pakistan.

The winning students from Daanish Girls School, Hasilpur, were awarded $1,000 by King Abdul-Aziz and his Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity.

The students, Sana Batool, Shazia Bibi and Iqra Irshad were honoured for their project titled working of wind turbine with low air pressure.

Their teacher Sara Saeed, also present at the event, was thrilled by this acknowledgement.

The Daanish Girls School is a boarding school system that enrolls only those students whose household income is less than six thousand rupees.

Fourteen-year-old Iqra Irshad from Ahmedpur prefers mathematics "but my teachers say my physics is quite good".

She plans to have a career in electrical engineering. Resident of Vehari and the daughter of a farmer, Shazia Bibi said that this was the first time in her family a girl was obtaining higher education. She intends to become a mechanical engineer.

Sana Batool from Bahawalpur, the daughter of a seamstress, however plans on becoming a civil servant.

Earlier, speaking to Dawn, the participating students said that they had thoroughly enjoyed the opening ceremony which included exchanging of pins and badges with students of other countries.

Haris Bin Ashraf of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zahid College, DHA, Karachi, said that he wore the traditional attire of sherwani and Jinnah cap at the function due to which many students came up to him to get their picture taken.

"It was so much fun," he said. He was participating in the world's largest science fair along with his classmates Babar Shah and Tahir Ajmeri with their group project on converting plastic garbage into combustive oil and other commercial products.

"People are so curious about Pakistan and several students came to us to get their photos taken," said Iqra.

On Thursday, the students got a chance to showcase their projects to the general public at the convention centre.

Talal Waseem of the Aga Khan Higher Secondary School who had created a surveillance spy robot using C-sharp programming was seen explaining his project confidently to several students and teachers who visited his booth.

Other participating students and their projects included cure of piles by Syed Minahil from Forward Girls College, Hayatabad, Peshawar and prevention of ozone layer by environment protection filter by Sidra Riaz of the Katchi Memon Academy, Gaya Girls College, Karachi.

Amazing facts about Pakistan

Assests & Resources

    

• Pakistan has sixth largest population in the world.
• Pakistan has world’s largest irrigation system.
• Khewra salt mine, the second largest salt mine in the world is in Pakistan.
• Pakistan holds four out of fourteen highest peaks in the world. K2 is the second highest mountain in the world.
• The world’s largest deep sea port, Gawadar is in Pakistan.
• Thar Desert, one of the largest deserts, is in Pakistan.
• World’s highest Polo ground is in Pakistan where Shundur Polo festival is being organized.
• Edhi is running one of the World’s largest Ambulance network.
• The highest railway station of Asia is in Pakistan.
• Karakoram Highway runs through the northern areas connecting Pakistan with China’s Xingjiang province is often described as ” Eighth Wonder of the World” due to the marvel of civil engineering as it has taken 15 years to complete by the Pakistan Army Engineers in collaboration with China. It’s been labeled as “World’s highest paved international Road” under World’s toughest terrain.
• Thar Coal reserves are estimated to be 850 Trillion Cubic Feet. There is enough coal in Pakistan's Thar area that it can be used to generate power for the next 100 years without relying on other power sources
• The mineral resource at Reko Diq (Balouchistan) is estimated at 5.9 billion tonnes with an average copper grade of 0.41% and an average gold grade of 0.22 g/tonne.

 

     

Power & Strength

• Pakistan is ninth super-power nation of the world.
• Pakistan is the 34th largest nation of the world by Area
• The economy of Pakistan is the 26th largest in the world in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP)
• Pakistani armed forces are internationally ranked sixth largest in the world by 2010. 
• Sixth nuclear power of the world. 
• Pakistan is notable for having one of the best trained airforce pilots in the world. 
• Air Commodore MM ALAM (Late) has a world record of shooting down 5 planes in less than a Minute.
• The country is listed among the "Next Eleven" economies. 

Education & Achievements

• Pakistan has seventh largest collection of scientists and engineers.
• Pakistan has world's youngest civil judge, Muhammad Illyas.
• World’s youngest certified Microsoft Experts Arfa Kareem (Late) and Babar Iqbal are from Pakistan.
• Dr. Abdus Salam – Nobel Prize winner (Physics 1979).
• LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) attracts students from Middle East, the Far East, Central Asia, and other parts of South Asia.
• Ustaad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan hailed as the most important Qawwali singer of the 20th century and received many awards around the globe such as The “Legends” award at the UK Asian Music Awards (2005).

Agriculture

Pakistan is one of the world's largest producers of the following commodities according to FAOSTAT, the statistical arm of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of The United Nations, given here with the 2008 ranking:

• Pakistan is the world's third largest producer of Apricot
• Pakistan is the world's second largest producer of Buffalo Milk 
• Pakistan is the world's third largest producer of Chickpea 
• Pakistan is the world's fourth largest producer of Cotton, lint 
• Pakistan is the world's third largest producer of Cotton, Seed 
• Pakistan is the world's fifth largest producer of Dates 
• Pakistan is the world's sixth largest producer of Mango 
• Pakistan is the world's fourth largest producer of Onion, dry 
• Pakistan is the world's eleventh largest producer of Oranges 
• Pakistan is the world's eleventh largest producer of Rice,paddy 
• Pakistan is the world's fifth largest producer of Sugarcane 
• Pakistan is the world's ninth largest producer of Tangerines, mandarin orange, clementine 
• Pakistan is the world's tenth largest producer of Wheat 

Miscellaneous

• Pakistan’s national anthem tune ranks first in the top three tunes of the world.
• Pakistan is the only Muslim nuclear power.
• The second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia. 
• About 50% of the world's footballs are made in Pakistan. 
• One of the oldest civilizations in history, Mohenjo Daro is in Pakistan.
• First PC virus was created by two Pakistani brothers. (Maybe not something to be very proud of, but it still might have required an impressive level of intellect to do so).
• The Shah Faisal Mosque in Islamabad can accommodate almost 100,000 worshipers. Completed in 1976, it could at that time probably hold the city’s entire population.

Memberships

Pakistan is a founding member of:

• Islamic Conference (now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation), 
• South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, 
• Developing 8 Countries and
• The Economic Cooperation Organization. 

It is also a member of the: 

• United Nations, 
• Commonwealth of Nations, 
• World Trade Organization, 
• G33 developing countries, 
• Group of 77 developing nations

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