June 30, 2006	Friday	Jumadi-ul-Sani 3, 1427

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ISLAMABAD, June 29: State Minister for Information Tariq Azeem on Thursday launched Information Ministry’s new look website at a simple and brief function held at the old USIS building.

In a brief speech, on the occasion, Minister Tariq Azeem told the gathering that he had looked at the revamped website at his Ministry office early morning “and it looked good.”

He said that e-mails had become a powerful information search engines throughout the world and more than a billion people signed up for it every day, and in this regard, he invited media persons, as well as the general public to enrol on the website’s e-mail in order to get useful information.

He expressed the hope that the new website would deliver, and “not become stale,” as government sponsored websites usually do. After the function and during refreshment hour, the minister talking informally to journalists, claimed that there was no constitutional barrier for President’s re-election from the present Parliament.

The Minister added the pith of the matter is that the Assemblies would very likely complete their designated term of five years and therefore, of necessity; they would have to elect the President again, if the President ran for office.

But he parried the question whether or not it would be correct morally for the President to do; adding only the objection coming from the Opposition was based on moral grounds. “Then there would be many such moral imponderable,” he observed.

Earlier, Wajih, Khan, chief of the Pakistan Image Project who has designed new features in the updated website said users would find it simple to navigate, both easily and quickly to seek updated information which would be refreshed at least once a day.

However, this first “look and feel” phase includes weather update, the first interactive city map and the first data base driven events calendar

In the second and third phase improvement project would later incorporate audio and video materials from Radio and PTV archives.

Wajih Khan invited journalists to sign up for the Information website www.infopak.go.pak to retrieve current and relevant materials every day.