ISLAMABAD (APP): Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro on Monday presented Pakistan’s national flag to Ms. Namira Salim - a renowned artist, and future astronaut - to be hoisted at the South Pole when she reaches there in the second week of January 2008 as part of an international expedition. The Prime Minister said that the Pakistani youth have great potential to accelerate in different fields bringing laurels to the country.

He said that the hoisting of Pakistani flag at the South Pole, that too by a woman, would reflect a positive image of Pakistan as a peace-loving and progressive country.

Earlier, Namira Salim told the Prime Minister that she is going to be part of an expedition which is leaving next week for the South Pole from Brazil.

At the Base Camp near the South Pole, she said, the group would receive training for five days. She said it is a privilege for her to be the first Pakistani to go to North and South Poles.

It may be recalled that she would also be the first Pakistani to go to space on Virgin Atlantis Spaceflight towards the end of 2008.


Associated Press of Pakistan

Good luck sis..
u reminds me of Kalpna Chawla

Good luck to her.She indeed is a courageous woman and will make all of us Pakistanis proud.

well done sis!!!

thumbs up to her...

LAHORE: Numira Saleem, a Pakistani woman, hoisted the country’s flag at the South Pole on Wednesday, Samma TV reported. According to the TV channel, Numira Saleem hoisted the Pakistani flag at the North Pole last Saturday, and there she had announced that she would also hoist her country’s flag at the South Pole.

Space flight: Based in Southern France, Saleem is undergoing training in the United States for a space flight scheduled within the next couple of years, according to the channel.

The channel quoted her as saying that it was a great honour to represent her country as the first Pakistani citizen at the North and South Pole during the International Polar Year that marks the challenge of climate change our planet is facing.


Daily Times

All the best to her. Good luck.

Great!

But why is an astronaut needed for this job?

Its just an expedition nothing to do with her future space journey.

and here it is.
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