LAHORE, Jan 18: The Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab on Tuesday organized a walk to raise money for the President's Relief Fund for tsunami victims.
Punjab Tourism Minister Mian Muhammad Aslam Iqbal led the walk, which was attended by students from different schools in the city.
The participants, who had held banners, walked from the Children's Library Complex to the Governor's House. Talking to reporters, the minister said tsunami was a great tragedy for humanity. He said it was a religious duty of Muslims to help those in distress.
Besides government, he said, the generality of people should participate in the relief fund for tsunami victims. He said the TDCP had taken the step of organizing walk and other activities to raise funds. The corporation, he said, would also contribute the proceeds of its view cards to the relief fund.
MINE WORKERS: The Punjab Mines and Minerals Department has disbursed Rs10 million among mine workers and their families in the form of compensation in 170 cases.
The information was given during a meeting held here on Tuesday to review the pace of disposal of cases of payment of compensation to mine workers and their families with Provincial Mines and Minerals Minister Muhammad Sibtain Khan in chair.
