July 06, 2007
<table width=550 border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> <tr> <td height=30 class=HeadLine11> <div align=justify><strong>PSO’s Ayesha Afzal receives Women Excellence Award 2007</strong></div></td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td class=text11><img src=/news_events/images/kapco_agreement.jpg width=550 height=229></td> </tr>--> <tr> <td class=text11>Ms. Ayesha Afzal, Senior Executive Corporate Planning at Pakistan State Oil, received Women Excellence Award 2007 in the category of Manager of the Year – Public Sector. The award was given during the International Conference on Women’s Leadership 2007 organized by Triple-E in Marriott Hotel, Karachi on June 17, 2007. The award recognizes her professional contributions to development of a state-of-the-art corporate planning framework at Pakistan State Oil that achieved several national and international benchmarks of recognition. <br /> <br /> Based on Corporate Planning performance of national and multinational companies operating in Pakistan, PSO has also received AIOU-Commonwealth of Learning’s (Vancouver, Canada) Strategic Leadership Award and Professional Excellence Award. Several business enterprises sought PSO’s permission to emulate its model. LUMS and IBA in Pakistan, University of Northeastern (USA), and University of Glasgow (UK) have undertaken the case study. In addition, PSO has been actively contributing and sharing its strategic framework and experience with others through World Economic Forum and World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland for broader strategic development. PSO’s corporate philosophy and practices were cited in the paper jointly written by World Economic Forum, Kennedy School of Harvard University and Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum.</td> </tr>
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<!-- <tr> <td class=text11><img src="/news_events/images/women_award_2007.jpg" width="550" height="385" /></td> </tr> --> <tr> <td align="center" class=text11>Ayesha Afzal, Senior Executive-Corporate Planning, receiving Women Excellence Award 2007 in the category of Manager of the Year-Public Sector at the International Conference on Women’s Leadership 2007 organized by Triple-E in Marriott Hotel, Karachi on June 17, 2007.</td> </tr> </table>