Pakistan
Activities
Radio Programs
Islamabad, Pakistan, 31 May 2007
We are conducting radio programs to elaborate about the issues related to smoking.
Contact: Najib Ahmad, najib@power99.com.pk
Web site: http://power99.com.pk
Seminar
Multan, Pakistan, 30 May 2007
Awareness Seminar on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day for Youth/Students.
Contact: Muhammad Afzal Sipra, masipra@gmail.com
World No Tobacco Day
Sakrand District Nawabshah, Pakistan, 31 May 2007
We want to celebrate this day in our schools and also will organize a walk.
Contact: Arshad Mangi, smo.skd@gmail.com
World No Tobacco Day 2007
District Mastung, Pakistan, 30-31 May 2007
On 30th of May we will arrange a press briefing with the local press and highlight the World No Tobacco Day during the press briefing. News will be published on 31 May 2007 and that same day, we will arrange a walk in the market with other partners, Health Department and Education Department. During the walk we will display banners and posters regarding the day and issue. The walk will finish when all the walk participants gather in the public library where a seminar will be held and speakers will talk on the issue and highlight the importance of the day.
Contact: Mr Sultan Ahmed Tareen, treensultan@yahoo.com
World No Tobacco day
Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 31 May 2007
Like the previous years, this year also, there will poster competition, display of innovative posters related to the cause, essay writing and possibly walk.
Contact: Dr Abdus Sattar Chaudhry, drchaudhry61@yahoo.com
World No Tobacco Day Seminar
Karachi, Pakistan, 31 May 2007
A talk show has been organized in which experts on tobacco control would discuss ways to implement smoke-free laws in Pakistan.
Contact: Professor Javaid Khan, javaid.khan@aku.edu
Rally on tobacco use control
Mingora, Pakistan, 22 May - 10 June 2007
On the eve of World no Tobacco Day, 31 May 2007. Swat Youth Front will celebrate the day by organizing a rally. The rally will start from Swat Youth Front's head office, located in Haji Baba, Mingora Swat at 10:00 am, under the leadership of Saeed Karim Shalmanee, Advocate/Chairmain Human Rights Committee NWFP. The participants will include lecturers, teachers, journalists, lawyers, traders, doctors, 200 college and school students, SYF's members and staff, including people from other walks of life. The participants will be highlighting the day with posters, banners and play cards. After passing through the main squares of Mingora City the participants will gather in Nishat Chowk (Square). The speakers will address on the day awaring the participants about the hazardous affects of tobacco use and will demand from the government to implement the tobacco control laws with full strength. After, this the rally will come to an end.
Contact: Amjad Ali, syf@syfswat.org
Web site: http://www.syfswat.org
Smoke-Free Environments
Okara, Pakistan, 30 May 2007
Movement Against Drug Abuse (MADA) Okara, Pakistan (registered), has been fighting against the social evils in Pakistan since 1999. Although it is a movement against drug addiction, it arranges walks, seminars, symposiums and medical camps to invite the attention of the government and community to the social problems. For this purpose MADA Okara arrange a conference against tobacco. More than 110 teenagers attend the conference. Our education center Abdul Rasheed memorial education center students, celebrate this day and distribute informative literature, pamphlets, stickers and calendars with messages and slogans against tobacco. Media also coverage this conference.
Contact: Muhammad Mazhar Rasheed, president_madaokara@yahoo.com
Web site: http://madaokara.20m.com
World No Tobacco Day Seminar
Islamabad, Pakistan, 31 May 2007
Renouned experts will give a talk on the theme of this year's WNTD.
Contact: Mr Mazhar Nisar, mazharnisar@yahoo.com
City Branding i.e., fixing banners, posters to celebrate World No Tobacco Day, etc.
Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan, 30-31 May 2007
All the main places in the above mentioned three cities will be decorated with banners and posters showing the WNTD theme.
Contact: Mazhar Nisar and Shahzad Alam Khan, khans@pak.emro.who.int
World No Tobacco Day Seminar
Karachi, Pakistan, 31 May 2007
Speakers will highlight the hazards of smoking while highlighting the theme of this year's WNTD.
Contact: Hakim Usman, khans1963@yahoo.com