{"id":57776,"date":"2018-03-25T16:09:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T11:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=57776"},"modified":"2022-12-13T13:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T08:55:59","slug":"pakistan-origin-british-minister-afzal-khan-visit-tns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=57776","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan-origin British minister Afzal Khan visits TNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, March 25 (TNS):<\/strong> Afzal Khan, Pakistan origin-British Parliamentarian and minister who has been conferred \u2018SITARA-I-QUAID-E-AZAM\u2019 recently by the President of Pakistan, visited Times International News Services (TNS) head-office here on Sunday.<br \/>\nDirector TNS Chaudhry Shahzad Akhatar and Chairman APNEF Rana Imran Latif welcomed the honorable guest who was accompanied by Syded Mudasir.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57780\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest2-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest2-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the visit, Afzal Khan visited different departments of TNS and appreciated the news services provided by the organization.<br \/>\nOn eve of Pakistan Day, President Mamnoon Hussain conferred \u2018SITARA-I-QUAID-E-AZAM\u2019 to Afzal Khan for his service to the country.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57779\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest1-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest1-631x420.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Afzal Khan is the Labour MP for Manchester Gorton. Afzal was elected at the General Election on the 8th June 2017 and is the first person from a BME background to represent a Manchester constituency in Parliament.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57782\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest5.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest5-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest5-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest5-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest5-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prior to being elected as a Member of Parliament, Afzal was a North West MEP. Born in Pakistan, he moved to the UK when he was adopted out of poverty as a child. He worked as a labourer in a cotton mill, a bus driver and a Greater Manchester Police Officer, before qualifying as a solicitor and becoming a partner at his own firm. In 2000 he was elected to Manchester City Council, rising to become the first Asian Lord Mayor of the city and a member of the Council&#8217;s Executive.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57781\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest3-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest3-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest3-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guest3-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Afzal has a long history of campaigning against racism and is a founding member of Hope not Hate and Unite Against Fascism.<br \/>buy singulair online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukmedix.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/twentyseventeen\/inc\/php\/singulair.html\">https:\/\/www.ukmedix.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/twentyseventeen\/inc\/php\/singulair.html<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<br \/> In 2008 he was awarded a CBE for his work on community cohesion, inter-faith and local government. In July 2017, just one month after being elected, Azal was appointed as Labour&#8217;s Shadow Immigration Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, March 25 (TNS): Afzal Khan, Pakistan origin-British Parliamentarian and minister who has been conferred \u2018SITARA-I-QUAID-E-AZAM\u2019 recently by the President of Pakistan, visited Times International News Services (TNS) head-office here on Sunday. Director TNS Chaudhry Shahzad Akhatar and Chairman APNEF Rana Imran Latif welcomed the honorable guest who was accompanied by Syded Mudasir. 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