21 January 2004	Wednesday	28 Ziqa'ad 1424

KARACHI, Jan 20: The City District Government Karachi has started work on a Rs 65 million women library complex at NIPA Chowrangi. City Nazim Naimatullah Khan laid the foundation of the complex, being built from women councillors' fund, on Tuesday.

The complex will have a three-storey general library, an audio-video centre, a training centre, two auditoriums, two lecture halls, a vocational centre, facilities for different language courses, computer education, child care centre.

It would also have a display centre, a health centre, a gymnasium hall, a women's hostel and an adult education centre for women. The complex will be spread over an area of two acres and will be completed in different stages.

Speaking on the occasion, Naimatullah Khan said it will be a unique type of complex where hundreds of girls students of various colleges and universities will be facilitated in educational and research work to be carried out in a free environment.

The Nazim said that a secular class in Pakistan was trying for introduce Western culture here. But the Western culture could not take roots in the West itself and it failed to accord due rights to women in the West.

The Muslim civilization, he pointed out, teaches the human beings a lesson how to live a life and get rid of agonies and miseries of the world.Naimatullah Khan informed that it was a multi-billion rupee project. The completion of the complex and purchase of equipment for would require large funds, still it was our effort to complete its first phase in one year and women should start their activities.

The ceremony was also addressed by city councillors Rehana Afroze and Naila Haqqani, Town Nazim Abdul Wahab, Ms Akram Khatoon, Prof Inayat Ali, Dr Azhar Jameel, Iqbal Ahmed Zubedi and Kazi Sadruddin.-APP