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Iftikhar Rana President Pakistan Association of Australia hosted a dinner in the honour of Pakistan National Defence University Islamabad's delegation
Mr.Iftikhar Rana, President Pakistan Association of Australia hosted a dinner on Tuesday 12th April 2011 at Spice of Life Restaurant Harris Park Sydney for the visiting NDU delegation. The delegation is headed by Rear Admiral Khan Hasham Bin Saddique who is the commandant of NDU. The delegation comprise mixture of civil and defence personnel's including Major General Tauqeer Rana, Brig Samrez, Directing Staff of NDU Faculty, Defence Officers from friendly countries of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nigeria and participants of National defence University course.
The dinner was held at the
Spice Of Life Restaurant and was attended by Dean of Consular Corps NSW and
Consul General of Pakistan Mr.Azam Mohammed,Defence Advisor of Pakistan High
Commission Brigadier Zahoor Ahmed , Area Manager for Pakistan International
Airlines Mr. Nadeem Jaffer, CEO, Citilink Finance Mr. Muhammad Asif, Editor in
Chief of Sada-e- Watan Sydney Mr. Zafar Hussain,Sheikh Khalid Javaid of Kuwait
Airways Kuwait and many famous dignities of Pakistan Australian community.
The mission of the NDU Islamabad is on official visit that is a part of NDU
course to impart higher education in policy and strategy formulation on national
security and defence. The delegation remained two days in Sydney and left onward
for Canberra and Melbourne.
Mr. Iftikhar Rana in his welcome speech thanked the guests for sparing their valuable time in attending the dinner. He informed that in the last past 4 years, the CG and DA always tried to arrange meetings with military delegation and we had similar meetings with Chief of Naval Staff, chief of Air Staff, many visiting Generals and military officials. He thanked CG and DA who had arranged this occasion to meet the delegation with local Pakistani Australian prominent community members. He also thanked Mr.Ishtiaq Khan and the team of spice and life for providing delicious food.
President Iftikhar Rana, Rear Admiral Hasham,Sheikh Khalid Javaid of Kuwait Airways & Brigadier Zahoor Ahmad