The Attock Refinery Limited (ARL) has been honoured with the award "Living the United Nations Global Compact Responsible Business Award 2011", for its best services in energy sector. Didier Boschung, Consul General of Switzerland in Pakistan, presented the award to ARL representative and lauded performance of the refinery.
The "Living the Global Compact Responsible Business Award" recognises Pakistani enterprises that best integrate the 10 principles of United Nations Global Compact into their business philosophy and acknowledges organisations demonstrating adherence to these principles in action.The UN Global Compact principles ask companies to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment, and anti-corruption.