On November 22, 2013, a large number of statisticians and patrons and supporters of statistics gathered at the ISOSS House in Lahore, Pakistan, to celebrate the 25 years of professional services of the Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS). The society was established in Lahore in 1988 in the First Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-1) to promote statistical sciences and their diverse applications in various sectors of lives and societies in the Islamic countries. Its membership is open to statisticians of all orientation. The founding president of ISOSS, Munir Ahmad, gave a brief history of ISOSS and its landmark contributions. He emphasized the need to create provincial and local societies of statisticians in Pakistan to organize national conferences and promote other statistical activities.
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