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June 2007
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June 2007
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153 HEC Scholars Leave for France
Dr. Sohail Naqvi Gets French Academic Award
Pakistan, Cuba to Strengthen Collaboration
40,000 E-Books to Go Online through HEC's Digital Library
Mega Project for Chinese Language Training
Dr. Riaz-ul-Haq Joins HEC as Member (Academics)
Workshop, Study Visit for VCs, Registrars at Thailand
Faculty Professional Development Programme Begins at HEC
International Conference on Research
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Seven Young Scholars to Attend 57 Meeting of Nobel Laureates
HEC Honours Winners of National Games
HEC Scholars Win Awards at AIT, Thailand
Workshop on Animal Vaccine Production and Quality Control
Workshop on Systematic Reviews in Healthcare at AMC
Workshop for HEC Employees
NAHE Completes Training of 3200 Teachers
GRE Workshop at Bahria University
Business Comm. Skills Course at Air University
Workshop on Semester System at University of Balochistan
Research Conference at SZABIST
Universities, Industry to Tackle Environmental Pollution
Pakistani Scholar Attends US Naval Academy Conference
IIUI Confers Honorary Degree on OIC Secretary General
IIUI, Ningxia Academy China Ink MOU
Universities of Peshawar, Sistan to Start Joint PhD in Geology
Workshops at PU Promote Use of Digital Library
Seminar on Drug Related Problems at LCWU
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UAAR Holds 8 Convocation
Open House for Students at Governor House, Lahore
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GIKI Holds 11 Convocation
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4 Degree Awarding Ceremony of Hamdard University
Pak-Turkey Workshop on Chemical Sciences
Biomedical Engineering Labs for MUET
National Seminar on Water Control at UAF
Third Convocation of CIIT Lahore
Earth Day Seminar at Karachi University
Mathematics Colloquium at IoBM, Karachi
Seminar on Afghan Refugees at University of Balochistan
Shams-ul-Mulk Elected as SOPREST President
BUET Khuzdar Holds First Convocation
Successful HEC Scholars
National Research Grant for Universities
Travel Grants to Teachers
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153 HEC Scholars Leave for France
HEC Scholars leaving for France with Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, Chairman HEC, Mr. Regis de Belenet, Ambassador
of France to Pakistan, Dr. Sohail Naqvi, Executive Director HEC and Dr. S M Raza, Adviser HRD, HEC
A ceremony to bid farewell to a batch of 153 students
leaving for France to carry out their PhD studies was
held at HEC secretariat recently. Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-
Rahman, Chairman HEC was the chief guest while
Mr. Régis de Belenet, Ambassador of France to Pakistan
was Guest of Honour on the occasion.
Congratulating the departing scholars, Dr. Atta-ur-
Rahman said, “You are proceeding for France with the
sole mission, which is to seek knowledge. You are very
lucky to have got the chance to study in one of the most
advanced countries, therefore try to utilize each and
every minute of your stay over there”.
He stressed upon the scholars to adopt the questioning
approach during the course of their study. “Don't hide
your ignorance, rather try to be a good learner. We want
each one of you to become a beacon of light for others
and I want to assure you that upon your return, a bright
future awaits you”, he added.
The Chairman emphasized that the HEC was making all
out efforts to establish a merit-based and transparent
system. He told the audience that there has been 2000
per cent increase in the development budget of higher
education.
Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman mentioned the launch of 40,000
textbooks in addition to already available 25,000 freeof-cost
journals of international repute. “In addition,
HEC has se tup and made operational the videoconferencing
facility in 15 universities where students
can interact directly with foreign professors in real time.
This and even more is just part of enabling environment
HEC is creating for its returning scholars”, he said.
This current batch of scholars consist of four different
schemes of HEC including Overseas Scholarship
Scheme- Phase II (Batch-1), Masters Leading to PhD
Scholarship in Economics and Finance Abroad,
MS/MPhil Leading to PhD Scholarships for Teachers of
Weaker Universities and PhD Scholarships for Natural
and Basic Sciences, France.
The Chairman said that the HEC is revamping the overall
system of higher education in the country. “We have
started a number of programmes to enhance both
quality and quantity of our higher education
institutions”, he said.
He also mentioned the desire of President General
Pervez Musharraf to meet these departing scholars.
“The President is keeping a close eye on the activities of
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HEC and he personally wanted to meet you but due to
his busy schedule, he could not do so”.
He told the scholars that a research grant of about six
million rupees will be available to each one of them in
the final year abroad, so as to carry out researches upon
their return without any difficulty.
Speaking on the occasion, the French Ambassador
congratulated the students who were selected for
higher studies in France. He said that he was happy to
see the growing cooperation between the two countries
in the higher education sector. He appreciated the HEC
for providing an attractive environment to the faculty
members and students for pursuing higher studies. He
said that these students were actually the ambassadors
of Pakistan. “And when you come back, you shall act as
ambassadors of France”, he said.
“Every year since 2000, the number of Pakistani
students leaving for France has increased dramatically. I
am sure these students will strengthen relations
between the two countries”, he said.
Prof. Dr. Sohail H. Naqvi, Executive Director, HEC,
thanked the Government of France and the French
Embassy in Islamabad for their kind cooperation. He
explained the objectives of the Human Resource
Development (HRD) programme of the Commission.
He said that 250 students were already studying in
France under HEC's scholarship schemes and the new
batch consists of 153 more students. He asked the
departing students to fully utilize their stay at France.
“You must keep in mind that you people are the future of
this nation so you should work hard and come back to
serve this nation”, he stressed.
Earlier, Prof. Dr. S. M. Raza, Adviser HRD at HEC
presented his welcome address and congratulated the
departing scholars. He said that the HRD programme is
the cornerstone of all the HEC initiatives.
Dr. Sohail Naqvi Gets French Academic Award
Prof. Dr. S. Sohail H. Naqvi, Executive Director, Higher Education
Commission has been decorated with the prestigious French Award Les
Palmes Academiques by the French Government. The Award, which
has been given in recognition of his role in Pakistan-France academic
cooperation, was presented to him by Mr. Regis de Belenet, French
Ambassador to Pakistan at a well attended ceremony at French Embassy
recently. Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, Chairman HEC and members of the
National Assembly were also present on the occasion. Les Palmes
Academiques was originally created by Napoleon Bonaparte, to honour
eminent members of the University of Paris. It was re-established on
October 4, 1955 by President René Coty and is one of the world's oldest
civil awards. Originally, the Palmes Académiques was only given to
teachers or professors. In 1866, the scope of the award was widened to
include major contributions to French national education made by
anybody, including foreigners.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Naqvi said, “It is matter of great pleasure
for me to accept this Award on behalf of my colleagues. Under the able
guidance of Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, HEC's investment in developing human
resource and strengthening the higher education sector has now begin
to pay dividends”, he said.
Mr. Regis de Belenet, the French Ambassador, appreciated the
services rendered by Dr. Naqvi for the advancement of higher
education in the country. “I must appreciate the growth in the quality
and quantity of higher education sector in Pakistan and the credit
definitely goes to Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman and Dr. Sohail Naqvi”, he added.
Sketch by Raja Ahmad Nadeem
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Pakistan, Cuba to Strengthen Collaboration
(L-R) Prof. Dr. Sohail Naqvi, Mr. Gustavo Machin Gomez, Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman,
Mr. Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla and Prof. Dr. Anwar Nasim
A Cuban delegation headed by Mr. Bruno Rodriguez
Parrilla, First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Republic of Cuba met Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman,
Chairman Higher Education Commission recently.
The delegation thanked the Pakistani Government for
placing its trust in the Cuban endeavour for setting up
1,000 scholarships for graduate studies in medicine for
Pakistani students in Cuba.
The Cuban Minister was accompanied by Mr. Gustavo
Machin Gomez, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to
Pakistan, Mr. William Carbó Ricardo, Deputy Director of
North Africa and Middle East Division of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Mr. Omar Pereira
Hernandez, Adviser of the First Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba and Mr. Ariel
Lorenzo Rodriguez, Second Secretary of the Embassy of
the Republic of Cuba in Pakistan.
During the meeting, Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman appreciated
the tremendous support provided by the Cuban medical
teams after October 2005 earthquake and the ensuing
offer of 1,000 scholarships that the Cuban Government
made possible in view of the interest taken in the
recovery efforts of the international medical and
disaster management teams operating in Pakistan after
the quake.
So far, 356 students have reached Havana and the
remaining scholarship slots have been already
advertised. Talks focused on Cuba's strength in
biotechnology, a much required knowledge that is the
need of the hour for a developing country like Pakistan.
Speaking of the possibilities for further collaboration
and cooperation between the two countries, Dr. Atta-ur-
Rahman highlighted the areas in which Pakistan would
be interested to work with the Cuban counterparts. He
suggested that the medical students already studying in
Cuba may be considered for PhD studies in
biotechnology once they graduated in order to
strengthen Pakistan's human resource in biotechnology.
Besides, those already with MS degrees may be sent to
Cuba for doctorates in basic sciences, applied sciences,
material sciences, IT related disciplines, engineering
biochemistry, microbiology etc. “Cuban expertise could
also help for postdoctoral fellowships in basic and
applied sciences which would place a minimum of two
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Pakistani scientists at Cuban centres of excellence”, he
said. Another important collaboration discussed was for
institutional linkages between the best centres in the
two countries. Establishment of a Centre of Excellence
in collaboration with Cuba in the field of biotechnology
in a public sector university in Pakistan was also
discussed.
Mr. Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said that Pakistan's
approach matched Cuba's and suggested that teams
from both sides should meet to form the proposals. Dr.
Atta-ur-Rahman was accompanied by Prof. Dr. Sohail
Naqvi, Executive Director HEC, Dr. S. M. Raza, Adviser
HRD and Dr. Anwar Nasim, Chairman Commission for
Biotechnology, Pakistan.
40,000 E-Books to Go Online through
HEC's Digital Library
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has decided to
provide 40,000 online books in addition to 23,000
journals that have been made available through the
Digital Library Programme. The E-books support
programme will allow researchers to access most of the
important text and reference books electronically in a
variety of subject areas.
For this purpose, the HEC has acquired 40,000
electronic books of the world's leading publishers that
cater to the specific needs of the public and private
universities and R&D organizations, participating in the
programme.
The main objective of the whole effort is to support and
strengthen the learning activities of students in
Pakistan. The students, faculty and staff will have the
access of E-books and all of the powerful research
technologies offered through this platform.
Over 220 leading international publishers have been
identified for the access including Oxford University
Press, Taylor & Francis, Blackwell Synergy, BMJ
publishing Group, Cambridge University Press, Emerald,
John Wiley & Sons, The McGraw Hill Book Companies,
MIT Press, Springer Publishing Company, Stanford
University Press and Sybex Inc, United Nations
University Press etc. containing a collection of over
40,000 e-books in varied disciplines, such as Business
and Management, Information Technology,
Engineering, Health and Biomedical, Life and Physical
Sciences, Social Sciences, etc.
It is anticipated that students at undergraduate and
graduate levels will greatly benefit from this powerful
new service which will provide a tremendous source of
important information to the student community.
Pakistan will thus become one of the first few countries
in the world in which the entire student community in
the universities will be given free access to a huge
reservoir of knowledge. This represents an important
and a historic step by HEC to improve the quality of
education in our universities, and reduce the cost
burden of higher education on students.
The salient features of the service include automatic
save links to highlights, bookmarks and notes and
storing them in personal bookshelves. The bookshelves
can be shared by patrons, teaching staff, and
administrators and items can be deleted at any time.
Moreover, InfoTools instantly links patrons from the fulltext
to other content within Ebrary databases, online
resources within the subscribing library (federated
search engines, ILS, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and
third party databases), information on the web such as
definitions, translations, maps, web search engines, and
bibliographical information.
InfoTools also allow patrons to highlight, annotate
bookmark, print, copy and paste text from any
document into any text application, complete with
customizable bibliographical citations.
The browsing options include navigating pages in the
book with the requested search terms or flip through
pages using the arrow buttons, unlimited users and
browsing through a particular subject area.
The service has user-friendly searching options. It
includes searching everything in a book by entering
text in one field, refining search results using the
search results page, searching for words and phrases
that are close to each other and exploring from within
a book, resources in the library, and on the Web. The
advance search options include Text, Author, Title,
Subject, ISBN, Abstract, Years of Publication and
Keyword.
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Mega Project for Chinese Language Training
The Chinese Huazhong Normal University (HUN) and
the Higher Education Commission (HEC) will
collaborate to begin a comprehensive project for
providing facilities to Pakistani faculty members and
students to learn Chinese language within Pakistan
and at the HUN, China.
The plan was discussed in detail during a meeting
between a delegation of HUN headed by its President,
Prof. Dr. Ma Min and the HEC team led by Prof. Dr. Attaur-Rahman,
Chairman HEC, who was assisted by Dr.
Naveed Malik, Vice Chancellor, Virtual University of
Pakistan, Prof. Dr. Riaz-ul-Haq Tariq, Member Academics
HEC, Prof. Dr. Riaz Hussain Qureshi, Adviser Quality
Assurance HEC, Mr. Muhammad Yaqoob, Adviser
Finance HEC and Mr. Rahim Bux Channa, DG Academics
HEC. The others members of the HUN delegation
included Mr. Ren You Zhou, Standing Deputy Dean of
College of International Cultural Exchange, HNU and Mr.
Gao Zhuo Xian, Director of International Office, HUN.
The Project will consist of four different programmes.
The first programme is to strengthen the Confucius
Centre at National University of Modern Languages.
The Centre will offer both short-term and long-term
courses, the purpose of which will be to inculcate the
working knowledge of Chinese language to Pakistani
students particularly those going to China for PhD under
HEC scholarships programmes.
The second programme in the project includes setting
up of Chinese Language Training Centres in major
universities of Pakistan particularly one in each
province. The Chinese delegation was of the view that in
the first instance, one such Centre may be established at
University of Karachi or University of the Punjab, Lahore.
Another important plan is to start a national distance
learning programme in Chinese language. For this
purpose, the infrastructure of Virtual University of
Pakistan will be utilized. Interactivity through videoconferencing
and internet will be an essential part of this
programme. The Vice Chancellor, Virtual University will
visit the Huazhong Normal University to explore the
modalities of the programme.
The fourth programme involves sending Pakistani
students to China for four-year degree programme so
that after completing degree they may teach Chinese
l a n g u a g e i n t h e u n i v e r s i t i e s , w h e r e
centres/departments of Chinese language exists.
During the meeting, the Chinese delegation proposed
the establishment of Pak-China Centre at the Huazhong
Normal University to be jointly established by HEC and
HUN where Pakistani faculty members and students will
be trained in the Chinese language. The idea was
appreciated by the HEC side and the delegation was
asked to give detailed specifications regarding this
Centre.
Dr. Riaz-ul-Haq Joins HEC as Member (Academics)
Prof. Dr. Riaz-ul-Haq Tariq has joined the Higher Education Commission as
Member (Academics). Previously, he served as the founding Vice Chancellor of
the University of Sargodha for four years. Dr. Riaz did his PhD in Science
Education from University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; MSc in Chemistry
from University of the Punjab, Lahore. He has vast experience of teaching and
research. He is the author of four books besides publishing many research
papers at the national and international levels. Dr. Riaz established the
Department of Education at Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. He also
worked as consultant with COSMO International, a Japanese firm for the
establishment of Fertilizer Technology Training Institute, Multan (now known as
NFC Institute of Engineering and Technology, Multan).
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Workshop, Study Visit for VCs, Registrars at Thailand
The first delegation of vice
chancellors and registrars of public
sector universities of Pakistan
returned after a successful tenday
workshop and study visit
programme on 'Good Governance
st
in Universities in the 21 Century'
at the Asian Institute of
Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
from May 22- June 1, 2007.
A joint effort of the AIT Extension
of Asian Institute of Technology
and the Learning Innovation
Division of the Higher Education
Commission (HEC), this was the
first-ever workshop of its kind.
It has been one of the key
objectives of HEC to holistically
provide facilitation to empower
universities of Pakistan in quality
governance to effectively compete
in the incessantly changing era of
global competitiveness. For this
purpose the HEC has planned this
continual activity to provide a
venue to the university leadership
and senior management to discuss
i s s u e s r e l e v a n t t o g o o d
governance with their foreign
counterparts and share good
models of governance that can be
then applied to their own systems.
Moreover they were also given the
unique opportunity to get up-todate
and holistic understanding of
modern university governance,
identify critical issues relevant to
effective academic management
and administrative practices and
gain an understanding of the skills
and attitude needed for managing
changes in the organizational
culture.
The visiting senior management
were also able to interact and
discuss bilateral matters and the
possibility of collaboration with
Prof. Dr. Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui, Vice Chancellor Karachi University and leader
of the Pakistani delegation, presents a souvenir to the Vice President,
International Affairs, University of Thammasat
AIT and other universities. Besides AIT which was the host university, the
participants also visited the King Mongkut's University of Technology, the
Thammasat University, the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok University and
Siam University. In addition, the delegates were also taken on a study tour of
the Thailand Science Park, National Science and Technology Development
Agency (NSTDA) and Thailand's Commission on Higher Education.
The workshop consisted of various academic sessions were arranged during
the workshop where the distinguished participants were exposed to different
issues being faced by higher education institutions all over the world. The
seminars facilitated by AIT were conducted by highly accomplished resource
persons from various parts of the region.
The first seminar was conducted on 'Strategic Management Issues: A Case of a
Philippine University' by Dr. Nicanor C. Austriaco, VP for Academic Affairs,
Angeles University, Philippines. Similarly, another interactive and informative
seminar was conducted by Dr. Roland Amoussou-Guenou, Head of IP
Programme, on 'Managing University Intellectual Property'. It was followed by
another session on University 'Performance-based Compensation' by Prof.
Peter Haddawy, VP for Academic Affairs, Asian Institute of Technology.
Another lecture was delivered by Prof. Dr. Thanwa, Vice-President of the
Keirsestart University on 'Best Practices in University Project Management'.
Last but not least, Prof. Said Irandoust, AIT President conducted a two-hour
session on 'Managing Change in University Organizational Culture: A Case
Study from Sweden'.
In addition to the academic sessions at the AIT, the organizers had also
arranged various seminars on issues relating to good governance at the
visiting universities for a deeper understanding of Thailand's perspective on
higher education complying with global competitiveness. This was a unique
experience where each university facilitated a tour of their institution followed
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y a seminar/lecture presentation
by their senior management
official to discuss key success
factors along with providing ample
information about their systems,
management and achievement.
The lectures arranged at various
universities included 'Issues on
Management of an Autonomous
University' at King Mongkut's
University of Technology; 'Best
Practices in Managing University
Resources' at the Thammasat
University; 'Issues on University
Quality Assurance' by the Office of
Commission on Higher Education;
'Scientific and Technological
Research and Development' at
Thailand Science Park, National
S c i e n c e a n d Te c h n o l o g y
Development Agency (NSTDA)
ICT Applications in University
Teaching and Administration at
Bangkok University and another
enriching interactive session
conducted at the Siam University
on 'Challenges for University
st
Leaders in the 21 Century'.
The AIT management also
arranged separate sessions that
included visits at the Mahidol
University; UNESCAP; discussion
and interaction with Dean and faculty members of AIT School of Environment,
Resources and Development (SERD), School of Management and AIT School
of Engineering and Technology where they discussed about possible
collaborations in various programmes.
Another major feature of the visit was the lunch hosted by the Ambassador of
Pakistan to Thailand, Lt. Gen. (R) Khateer Hassan Khan. Prof. Dr. Pirzada
Qasim Raza Siddiqui, Vice Chancellor, Karachi University and Ms Noor Amna
Malik, Director General, Learning Innovation, HEC expressed their heartfelt
gratitude to the Ambassador for honouring the visiting delegates. Lt. Gen. (R)
Khateer Hassan was also chief guest besides Prof. Said Irandoust at opening
ceremony of the Workshop on May 22, 2007.
AIT also arranged social and cultural activities for the delegates. They toured
the Grand Royal Palace and visited the globally famous Pattaya city as well. The
most memorable of all was the farewell boat dinner hosted by AIT at the
ancient city of Ayyuthiya.
The delegation was led by Prof. Dr. Pirzada Qasim. The others participants
included Dr. Aziz Ali Najam, Vice Chancellor, Karakurum International
University, Gilgit; Dr. Farhana Jahangir, Vice Chancellor, Frontier Women
University, Peshawar; Brig. Mukhtar Ahmad Khan, Vice Chancellor, Balochistan
UET, Khuzdar; Dr. Muhammad Akram Chaudhry, Vice Chancellor, University of
Sargodha; Dr. Saeeda Asadullah Khan, Vice Chancellor, Fatima Jinnah Women
University, Rawalpindi; Dr. Munawar Mirza, Vice Chancellor, University of
Education, Lahore; Dr. Asmatullah Khan, Vice Chancellor, University of Science
& Technology, Bannu; Dr. Abdul Rahim Malik, Vice Chancellor, Shah Abdul Latif
University, Khairpur; Dr. Muhammad Nizamuddin, Vice Chancellor, University
of Gujrat; Dr. Arif Ali Zaidi, Vice Chancellor, GC University, Faisalabad; Brig. (R)
Agha Ahmed Gul, Vice Chancellor, University of Balochistan, Quetta; Dr. Arshad
Iqbal, Registrar, AJK University, Muzaffarabad and Mr. Sajid Sohail, Registrar,
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. The Higher Education Commission was
represented by Ms Noor Amna Malik, Director General Learning Innovation
Division and Mr. Fida Hussain Director, Learning Innovation Division.
The visiting delegation with Prof. Said Irandoust, President AIT and Lt. Gen (R) Khateer Hussian,
Ambassador of Pakistan to Thailand
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Faculty Professional Development
Programme Begins at HEC
Participants of the course with Dr. Riaz Hussain Qureshi, Adviser QA & LI, HEC
and other Commission officials
The Learning Innovation, Higher Education Commission
launched the 45-day long Faculty Professional
Development Programme from June 11, 2007. About 30
participants from all the public sector universities of
Pakistan are attending this course. The course aims at
equipping the higher education teachers with the
principles of pedagogical knowledge and skills
imperative for effective teaching learning process. Prof.
Dr. Riaz Hussain Qureshi, Adviser QA & LI, HEC was chief
guest at the inaugural ceremony. Ms. Noor Amna Malik,
DG LI Division, HEC was also present at the occasion.
Mr. Fida Hussian, Director LI, HEC gave the welcome
address. He said that the primary purpose of this
programme was to develop pedagogical skills of
university faculty of all the disciplines.
Speaking on the occasion, Ms. Noor Amna Malik
highlighted the vision of Learning Innovation Division,
which is playing a significant role to equip the faculty
members with modern technological, pedagogical and
professional training. “This ultimately trickles down to
provide quality education to the students”, she stressed.
At the end, Dr. Qureshi appreciated the LI Division for
successfully organizing faculty development
programmes. He also highlighted the importance of
Quality Assurance and Learning Innovation in the
improvement of higher education in the country. The
Adviser stressed on improving quality of faculty,
curricula, assessment procedures and students by
providing infrastructural facilities, research and learning
environment.
A project of the Higher Education Commission to establish a sub-campus of
Bahauddin Zakariya University in Sahiwal has been approved by the Central
Development Working Party. The project will provide infrastructure and
other academic facilities at the sub-campus to ensure access to quality
and diversity in education to people of the region. The project will
include construction of two academic blocks to house five academic
departments, two hostels to house 150 students each, staff
residences and student civic facilities. It will also enhance the library facilities, computer laboratories along with office
equipment, furniture and fixtures. A large human resource component of the project will ensure 50 foreign doctoral
scholarships for the University as part of the human resource development programme for the faculty.
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International Conference on Research, Development
and Emerging Technologies
A t w o - d a y i n t e r n a t i o n a l
conference on 'Research,
Development and Emerging
Technologies' was organized by
NUST Institute of Information
Technology (NIIT) in collaboration
w i t h H i g h e r E d u c a t i o n
C o m m i s s i o n a n d C a m p u s
Consultancy Services, UK at the
HEC Secretariat recently.
The main objective of the
Conference was to provide a forum
to higher education faculty to
share the best practices in
research methodologies for their
academic institutions to evolve
into veritable centres of research
excellence. The Conference also
s h o w c a s e d k e y e m e r g i n g
technologies that would likely be
t h e d r i v e r s o f e c o n o m i c
development in knowledge-based
economies of the future. The
speakers were acclaimed scholars
in their areas of expertise
representing premier academic
institutions of the United Kingdom.
Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman,
Chairman HEC was chief guest at
the inaugural ceremony. Speaking
on the occasion, Dr. Atta-ur-
Rahman said that knowledge had
become the key driver in the
process of development. “Gone
are the days when natural
resources contributed to the
development of nations. Now it is
knowledge and knowledge alone
that differentiates between
developed and underdeveloped
countries”, he said.
He said that research, technology,
innovation and entrepreneurship
were the key words in the creation
of sustained economic growth
Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, Chairman HEC, Lt. Gen. (R) Shujaat Hussain, Rector NUST and
Dr. Arshad Ali, Director General, NIIT sit on stage during the inaugural ceremony
particularly amongst developing nations. “Fully alive to this fact, the
Government tasked HEC to spearhead a comprehensive campaign for building
a knowledge- based economy as engine of socio-economic development in
Pakistan”, he added.
The Chairman said that efforts were being made to uplift institutions of higher
learning and bring them at par with international standards. “We are attracting
the brightest minds of the nation to come forward and excel in learning and
research. We are encouraging both individuals and institutions to play an
effective role in development of higher education in the country”, he asserted.
Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman described the various initiatives of HEC for improving
higher education sector in Pakistan. He said that highly creative faculty was the
key to a successful higher education system and the centre of HEC's efforts is,
therefore, faculty development. “Our faculty development programme
consists of three parts. First of all, identifying the brightest and sending them
abroad for higher studies in top institutions worldwide. In the last 18 months,
1200 scholars have been placed at various institutions and another thousand
Participants and speakers of the Conference
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will be sent abroad this year. Secondly, we are attracting
foreign faculty to work in our universities and some 500
have returned to Pakistan for long or short-term
assignments. Thirdly, there is indigenous PhD
programme for maximizing the number of PhDs in
higher education institutions but without compromising
quality”, he said.
He further said that a large number of linkages have
been established with reputed foreign universities, fifty
such linkages with British universities, with a purpose to
enhance the standards of local universities.
He appreciated the NIIT for organizing this international
conference on research, development and emerging
technologies. “It is heartening to see that there is a
growing realization among our academics for
importance of research culture in universities and such
events really prove stimulating in this regard”, he said.
Earlier, Prof. Dr. Arshad Ali, Director General, in his
welcome address, thanked the Higher Education
Commission and Campus Consultancy Services, UK for
organizing the Workshop. He appreciated the efforts of
HEC in promoting an enabling and supporting
environment for research in the country.
Lt. General (R) Syed Shujaat Hussain, Rector NUST was
also present at the occasion. Different experts including
13 scholars from UK, gave presentations on different
dimensions of the subject topic during the Conference.
The Conference speakers included Prof. Jeremy Allam,
Professor of Ultra fast Opto-electronics, University of
Surrey; Prof. John Taylor, Education Management,
University of Southampton; Prof. Dr Arshad Ali, Director
General, NUST Institute of Information Technology; Dr.
Des McLernon, Electrical and Electronics Dept.,
University of Leeds; Prof. Tony Griffiths, Institute for
Sustainability, Energy and Environmental Management,
School of Engineering, Cardiff University; Prof. Keith
Williams, Institute for Sustainability, Energy and
Environmental Management, Cardiff University; Prof.
John Hancock, Dean of Engineering, University of
Glasgow; Dr. David Hugh Nash, Vice Dean, School of
Engineering, University of Strathclyde; Dr. Fayyaz
Memon, Department of Engineering, University of
Exeter; Dr. Ihtesham Ur Rehman, Reader in Biomedical
Materials, Queen Mary, University of London; Dr. Chris
Edwards, Control and Instrumentation group, Dept. of
Engineering, University of Leicester; Prof. Javaid
Rehman, Professor of law and Director of Research,
Brunel University.
Seven Young Scholars to Attend
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57 Meeting of Nobel Laureates
Seven young scholars have been selected on merit from
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all over the country to attend the 57 Meeting of Nobel
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Laureates (19 Meeting in Medicine/Physiology) from
July 1-6, 2007, Under the Programme for Interaction of
Young Pakistani Scholars with Nobel Laureates in Lindau
Germany.
Eight to ten Pakistani students and young researchers,
sponsored by Higher Education Commission and
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission have been
participating in Lindau Annual Meetings regularly since
2003. During their stay, they meet and discuss their
scientific pursuits with Nobel Prize Winners as well as
more than 500 fellow participants from over 40
countries.
The selected scholars for this year are Fozia Fatima,
Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad; Junaid Ashraf,
KRL Hospital, Islamabad; Lubna Siddiq, CMH,
Rawalpindi; Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi, Aga Khan
University, Karachi; Syed Hammad Hassan, A.F.I.D.,
Rawalpindi; Talha Vaqar, Aga Khan University, Karachi
and Waqas Tariq Qureshi, Rawalpindi Medical College.
The process for the selection of candidates started in
January 2007. Apart from the announcements in the
media, all the Vice Chancellors as well as
Chairmen/Heads of Department of relevant
universities/institutions/medical centres were
requested to nominate their best graduates for this
highly competitive award. After scrutiny in the light of
prescribed criteria, 25 candidates were short-listed out
of 122 applicants. The interviews were held at Pakistan
Science Foundation, Islamabad. Along with the regular
members of the organizers/selection committee,
subject specialists in the field of medicine/physiology
were also invited for thorough evaluation. Finally, seven
candidates were selected by Lindau Council in Germany.
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HEC Honours Winners of National Games
Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, Chairman HEC presents trophy to the teams Manager while
Mr. Talat Khursheed, Director General Sports, HEC look on
Paying rich tribute to university students who won eight
gold medals, three silver medals and eight bronze
medals in the National Games, the highest ever in the
history of Pakistan, Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, Chairman
HEC stated that “The Higher Education Commission
gives equal importance to sports as well as academic
activities in the universities. We want our students to
have a balanced personality. We want them to excel in
sports in addition to academic ventures”.
Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman was speaking as chief guest at
a ceremony to award prizes to the students who won
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medals in the 30 National Games at HEC Secretariat
recently. The ceremony was attended by vice
chancellors, sports directors, officials of sports
federations, federal and provincial sports ministries.
These students participated under the banner of Higher
Education Commission/ Pakistan Universities Sport
Board in the National Games held in Karachi from April
9-14, 2007. Eleven men and five women teams of
HEC/PUSB participated in the Games.
The Chairman HEC said that the Commission was
establishing sports facilities in the universities across
the country. “We have allocated over Rs. 200 million for
promoting sports culture amongst our university
students”, he said.
He said that the sports was an essential part of character
building. “It is the best way to discover the hidden
qualities of oneself including determination, hard work,
discipline, tenacity and sportsman spirit. Sports
unleashes many such facets of your character and
makes you a disciplined person”.
Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman appreciated the efforts of teams'
coaches and managers. He said that the Commission
would expand its investment in universities' sports. “Our
target is to achieve medals in the international
competitions like Olympics but that is not possible
without commitment and hard work”, he added.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Dr. Sohail Naqvi,
Executive Director HEC said that universities' sports has
been given due importance since the inception of the
Commission in 2002. “Like academics, sports also need
to be developed on scientific principles. We are making
every possible effort to strengthen the basic
infrastructure of sports in the universities”, he said.
He said that the achievements in the National Games
were just a beginning. “We have, no doubt, the best
talent and we'll provide them the best coaching and
opportunities. We are also seeking support from Austria,
Germany, Iran and some other countries to facilitate us
in this regard”.
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Earlier, Mr. Talat Khursheed, Director General Sports,
HEC highlighted the achievements of HEC/PUSB teams
in the National Games. He said that there was
tremendous improvement in the past one year.
“This year, our teams won eight gold, three silver and
eight bronze medals which is a record performance from
universities' teams in the 33 years history of national
games”, he asserted.
He thanked the sports divisions of universities for their
active support and appreciated the commitment and
hard work by the student players. “I must also
appreciate and thank the coaches and managers who
worked day and night to train the youngsters”, he
added.
Later, Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman awarded medals, cash prizes
and certificates to the students who had shown
excellent performance in the National Games.
The Chairman HEC also awarded scholarships to the
sports people. In addition, Sports Colours were also
conferred on the players.
HEC Scholars Win Awards at AIT, Thailand
Two HEC scholars
have won awards for
o u t s t a n d i n g
performance at the
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107 graduation
ceremony at the
Asian Institute of
Technology (AIT),
T h a i l a n d . M r.
Naveed-ul-Islam and
Mr. Shahid Iqbal
were given the
outstanding student
Naveed-ul-Islam
awards in the field of
Microelectronics and Telecommunications respectively.
Mr. Naveed received the Infineon Prize in recognition of
his outstanding academic performance in the field of
Microelectronics. He obtained his BSc degree, major in
Electronics and Communications, from the University of
Engineering and Technology, Taxila, in 2001.
He was admitted in AIT in August 2005 and completed
his Master of Engineering degree with research on
“Fabrication of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC)
Focusing on Improvement in Cell Performance”. Prior to
joining AIT, he worked as Assistant Manager at the
National Engineering and Scientific Commission
(NESCOM), Pakistan.
The Infineon Prize is given from funds provided in 2003
by the Infineon Technologies AG, through its Asia Pacific
Office in Singapore. It was also a matter of great honour
Iqbal Shahid
for Mr. Naveed, and
his country, to
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address the 107
graduation batch on
b e h a l f o f a l l
o u t s t a n d i n g
students in this
graduation batch.
Moreover, AIT has
also offered him
PhD Fellowship of
56 credits out of 84
total credits.
The other scholar, Mr. Iqbal Shahid, won the Wireless
Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC) Prize in
recognition of his outstanding academic performance in
the field of Telecommunications (Wireless Multimedia).
Mr. Shahid obtained his B.Eng. degree, major in
Electronics Communications, from the National
University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in 2001.
He joined the AIT in August 2005 and completed his
Master of Engineering degree with a thesis entitled “Bit-
Interleaved Space-Time Coded Modulation with
Iterative Decoding over Correlated Fading Channels”.
Prior to joining AIT, he worked as Assistant Manager at
NESCOM. The WPMC Prize is given by Yokosuka
Research Park R&D Committee and Communications
Research Laboratory of Japan, from funds established in
2001 in recognition of AIT's contributions to WPMC.
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Workshop on Animal Vaccine Production
and Quality Control
The National Core Group in Life Sciences, Higher
Education Commission organized a two-day workshop
on “Animal Vaccine Production and Quality Control” in
collaboration with COMSTECH at Islamabad from May
28-29, 2007.
The major objectives of the Workshop included
evaluation of current status of animal vaccine
production in the country and to develop long-term
strategy to improve the production capacity, its quality
and marketing infrastructure.
The people involved in vaccine production, quality
control and R&D were invited from 12 institutions from
all over the country. The participants were told that, at
present, five institutions in public sector and nine in
private sector were involved in vaccine production
against livestock and poultry in the country.
They were informed that 12 different types of animal
vaccines against economically important diseases are
being manufactured at these units. However,
quantitatively only 5-20 per cent of each type of the
required vaccine is being manufactured in the country,
whereas rest of the vaccines are being imported.
At the end, various recommendations were made for
improvement of animal vaccine production. These
included establishment of National Biologics Agency
and a task force to evaluate the production capacity and
quality control facilities at the local vaccine production
units and suggest measures for their improvement.
It was suggested that technical assistance should be
provided to the local vaccine manufactures through
government or international expertise and develop a
strong epidemiological data and regular monitoring
network for identifying vaccine priority areas and to
know efficacy of the used vaccine.
It was further recommended to increase R&D work on
vaccine production using local strains of infectious
diseases in addition to establishing national reference
laboratories for pathogen characterization and setting
up of seed stocks for vaccine strain.
A comprehensive report in this regard will be
prepared by the visiting USDA expert and submitted
to the Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock
(MINFAL).
Participants of the Workshop with Dr. Saadat Aaliya, Project Director, Life Sciences and
Ms Nyla Jabeen, Research Officer, Life Sciences
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Workshop on Systematic Reviews in Healthcare at AMC
Ms Noor Amna Malik, DG Learning Innovation, HEC with speakers and participants of the Workshop
A three-day scientific workshop on 'Systematic Reviews
in Healthcare' was organized by Learning Innovation
Division, HEC in collaboration with Amcolians Alumni
Association at Army Medical College Rawalpindi from
May 14-16, 2007.
The purpose of the workshop was to build research
evaluation capacity in the senior medical faculty and
make them able to evaluate research published in the
international literature.
Prof. Waqas Waheed and Prof. Hashim Raza were
invited from Manchester and South East England
respectively, to facilitate the participants’ learning in this
workshop. Dr. Haider from Aga Khan University of
Health, Karachi and Dr. Ilyas Mirza also joined the panel
as resource persons.
The workshop was inaugurated by Lt. General Mushtaq
Ahmad Baig, Surgeon General/DGMS (IS). He
highlighted the importance of research and
development in the medical profession and hoped that
the workshop would help to build a broad based
researcher group of senior and junior doctors.
Ms. Noor Amna Malik, Director General Learning
Innovation, HEC elaborated the efforts of the
Commission to meet the international standards of
research and learning, which was highly appreciated by
the audience that comprised all general officers the
Army Medical Corps, AMC faculty and other
distinguished guests.
In the closing ceremony, Prof. Dr. Riaz Hussain Qureshi,
Adviser QA&LI, HEC addressed the audiences.
Dr. Qureshi expressed satisfaction on the content and
interactive way in which the workshop was conducted.
At the end, certificates were distributed among the
participants.
Workshop for HEC Employees
A Workshop on English Language Skills has been
organized for Higher Education Commission Employees
by HEC's Learning Innovation Division in collaboration
with British Council from May 28 to July 19, 2007 at
Commission Secretariat in Islamabad.
The basic purpose of this Workshop, which is first of its
kind for HEC employees, is to improve employees'
written and spoken skills especially noting and drafting
competence in the official correspondence.
Prof. Dr. Riaz Hussain Qureshi, Adviser Quality
Assurance and Learning Innovation, was chief guest at
the inaugural ceremony. Twenty participants from
different departments of HEC are attending the Course.
Ms Lynn Clark, an English Language Teaching
Consultant is resource person for the Workshop.
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Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Riaz
stressed the significance of English
language in the present age. “English
language has always been a difficulty in
our country, which is a big disadvantage
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in the 21 century. There is no other
option but to strengthen our written and
spoken skills in English language if we
have to move forward”, he said.
English Language Skills Enhancement
Programme is similar to the IELTS
course. It focuses on all aspects of
functional English including reading,
writing, listening and speaking.
This course would help the participants
to strengthen communication skills,
HEC Employees attending the course with Dr. Riaz Qureshi and
Ms Lynn Clark, English Language Teaching Consultant
improve English grammar usage, and enhance understanding of HEC
templates. This programme is the first of its series and more
officers/officials will be nominated from HEC for the next batch.
NAHE Completes Training of 3200 Teachers
National Academy of Higher Education
(NAHE) is pursuing excellence in higher
education by conducting professional
development training courses for
university as well as college teachers.
NAHE, according to stipulated target
mentioned in PC-1 of the project, had to
train 3200 university as well as college
faculty members. The Academy has not
only successfully achieved its set target
but is going beyond the target figure.
These trainings are organized at the
doorstep of universities. For this
purpose, 39 Human Resource
Development Centres have been
established in various public sector
universities across the country.
These centres are not only established in
major cities like Lahore, Karachi,
Islamabad but also in far flung areas like
Gilgit, Nawabshah and Bannu etc.
The month long intensive in-service
training course covers all the essentials
for successful teaching. The focused
areas are Educational Psychology,
E d u c a t i o n a l M e a s u rement a n d
Evaluation, Administrative Planning and
Participants of Staff Development Course held at Frontier Women University,
Peshawar with Dr. Farhana Jehangir, Vice Chancellor of the University and
Dr. Javaid Iqbal Awan, Project Director, NAHE
Communication Skills, Curriculum and Material Development,
Advanced Teaching Skills, and Research Skills.
The coordinator, who is usually a senior faculty member of the
respective university, engages experienced and competent resource
persons for taking sessions during the course.
The courses are completely funded by NAHE. The success of the course
is evaluated through 'Quality Assurance Mechanism 'QAM'. This QAM
has a package of evaluation proformas for evaluating the course
through different angles. The QAM gives us feedback about the success
and impact of the course.
NAHE is planning to make these trainings as mandatory in all the public
sector universities of Pakistan in the next phase with improved
instructional material.
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GRE Workshop at Bahria University
Workshop participants with Vice Admiral Farooq Rashid, Rector, Bahria University
and Ms Noor Amna Malik, DG Learning Innovation, HEC
A five-day workshop on GRE at Bahria University,
Islamabad was organized by Learning Innovation
Division, HEC from June 4-8, 2007.
Faculty members of 20 universities from all over
Pakistan were trained in this workshop.
The basic objective of the workshop was to familiarize
the faculty members with GRE test taking techniques.
The workshop provided them an opportunity to enhance
their skills of analytical writing, verbal and quantitative
reasoning.
Vice Admiral Farooq Rashid was chief guest at the
opening ceremony of the Workshop. Mr. Hammad
Ashraf, the resource person, highlighted the objectives
and content of the workshop.
The chief guest thanked the LI Division, HEC for
extending support and facilitating the workshop. He
further explained Bahria University's vision of
enhancing the human resource capital of Pakistan
through professional training and development.
Khawaja Azam Ali, MD Quality Assurance, HEC
distributed certificates among the participants.
Business Comm. Skills Course at Air University
A one-week 'Business Communication Skills Course'
organized by Higher Education Commission in
collaboration with Air University, Islamabad concluded
here recently. Thirty faculty members from local
universities were invited to participate in the
programme. The purpose of the Workshop was to equip
the participants with essential skills used in the business
communication.
Dr. Amina Nasir from International Islamic University,
Islamabad was resource person for the Workshop.
The participants requested the Higher Education
Commission to arrange such workshops on regular
basis. At the end, the chief guest awarded certificates to
the participants.
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Workshop on Semester System at University of Balochistan
Participants of the Workshop along with the resource persons
A two-day workshop on semester system was held at
University of Balochistan, Quetta from May 25-26, 2007.
Seventy-three participants from various departments of
the University attended the workshop. Mr. Mohammad
Zaki, Assistant Director, LI Division, HEC coordinated the
workshop.
Dr. Pervez Mughal, GIKI, Topi and Mr. Mohammad
Jawaid Aslam, Controller of Examinations, GC
University, Faisalabad were resource persons. In the
opening ceremony, Mr. Rasool Buksh Raeesani, Pro Vice
Chancellor, University of Balochistan, Quetta presented
his views on various initiatives taken by his institution for
quality education and reforms in the examination
system.
He said that after thorough analysis of various
examinations systems adopted by all public universities,
his University has drafted a manual on semester system
which will be implemented after the administrative
approval of the Vice Chancellor.
While appreciating the organization of the workshop,
t h e p a r t i c i p a n t s r e c o m m e n d e d t h a t
workshops/seminars on semester system should be
arranged throughout Pakistan which would help in
developing a unified semester system and capacity
building of stakeholders involved in its implementation.
At the closing session, Mr. Raeesani said that the HEC
was making all out efforts to promote academic vitality
by providing training and development opportunities,
which not only support learning and teaching but also
assist individuals in working effectively together within
their departments and throughout the university
community. He elaborated the importance of semester
system and strongly appreciated policies of NCES for
the development and improvement of semester system.
He said that University of Balochistan will follow the
semester system very soon.
Mr. Mohammad Zaki, in his concluding remarks,
congratulated the participants for successful execution
of workshop. He said that NCES of HEC has given many
recommendations and one of them is to introduce the
semester system in all public sector universities by fall
2008. “The basic purpose of this workshop is to spread
awareness among the concerned officials and
stakeholders regarding semester system. The HEC is in
continuous consultation with all the public sector
universities before implementing the semester system”,
he said.
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“Universities should focus on
interdisciplinary research and
encourage the scholars to conduct
research in all fields of studies”.
This was stated by Dr. David Taylor,
Acting Provost, The Aga Khan
University while inaugurating the
N i n t h N a t i o n a l R e s e a r c h
Conference on Management,
Computer and Social Sciences &
Economics organized by Shaheed
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of
S c i e n c e a n d Te c h n o l o g y
(SZABIST) on May 19, 2007.
Research Conference at SZABIST
Dr. Taylor said that the universities
should establish and promote
research in the country, as it would
play a key role in the scientific,
social and economic development
of Pakistan.
He urged the scholars to make
best use of internet, digital library
and online available resources. He
advised scholars to conduct
research on social, gender, human
rights and water management
issues in particular adding that
research was an open-ended
activity.
Dr. Javaid Leghari, Acting President of SZABST presents shield to
Dr. David Taylor, Acting Provost, Aga Khan University
Dr. Javaid Laghari, Acting President, SZABIST said that the Institute has
emerged as a research university in Pakistan. He said that the research
conference at national level would provide a platform to scholars to share their
research and be recognized.
Ms Azra Maqsood, Deputy Director, SZABIST briefed the audience about the
PhD programme in Management, Computer and Social Sciences & Economics
at the Institute. “SZABIST is making every effort to create research
environment in the country”, she said.
Over 70 research papers were presented at the Conference in six parallel
sessions. These included 52 papers in computer sciences, eight papers in
management sciences and 10 papers in social sciences and economics.
Universities, Industry to Tackle Environmental Pollution
The Higher Education Commission
is strengthening Departments of
Environmental Sciences in various
universities to tackle the problems
related to environment themes.
This was stated by Prof. Dr. Attaur-Rahman,
Chairman HEC while
speaking as chief guest at a
seminar on 'University-Industry
Interaction for Abatement of
Environmental Pollution and
Climate Change' organized by
International Islamic University,
Islamabad in collaboration with Higher Education Commission and Tourism
Promotion Services Limited. ‘We are confronting an impending environmental
disaster as this part of the world is going to be among the worst affected in the
next 30-50 years', said Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman. He said that the realization of the
depletion of the ozone layer and global warming has been there for the last two
decades, and the Kyoto Protocol has been signed by most countries.
He said that there was mounting evidence that over the next 20-25 years,
there would be devastating floods in the rivers of Pakistan due to rapid melting
of glaciers. “This would be followed by an even more critical period of drought
as the rivers would dry up due to insufficient ice on the glaciers, causing
desertification. It was therefore vitally important to build large number of
dams to store excess water over the next 10-15 years which would be used in
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subsequent long periods of drought”.
The option of renewable or wind
energies for general use in Pakistan is
also not a possibility at the present, he
said adding that France, however,
produces 70 per cent of its energy
through nuclear energy.
Among the institutions funded by HEC
are departments of Environmental
Sciences. They are at present
functioning at Peshawar University,
Mehran University of Engineering and
Technology, Jamshoro, University of
Agriculture, Faisalabad and Lahore
College for Women University Lahore.
Mr. Azam Jamil, Corporate Director,
Tourism Promotion Services, in his
welcome address stressed the
contribution of Serena hotels in upholding environmental safety
measures and integrating technology and people's participation for
regulatory compliance, resource conversation and disposal of wastes.
Dr. Anwar H. Siddiqui, President IIUI stressed the importance of
science and technology and revealed that IIU is now branching out in
fields of science as there was no difference between Islamic and non-
Islamic subjects. Dr. Rozina Tufail, MNA and Chairperson National
Committee of Science and High Tech for Economic Growth also spoke
on the occasion.
The Seminar provided a forum to enhance the futuristic liaison of
universities with industry and is meant to bridge the gap between
industrial environmental problems and their mitigation on research
based approach by providing an edge to the environmental student
groups in particular to gain exposure with the industrial practical
environmental concerns and recommending mitigation plans to them
and developing Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) by the industry
for establishing a framework for abatement of environmental pollution
and climate change.
Pakistani Scholar Attends US Naval Academy Conference
Mr. Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Usmani, a
Fulbright Scholar from Pakistan,
participated in 2007 United States Naval
Academy Foreign Affairs Conference,
held in Annapolis, Maryland recently.
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The 47 annual Naval Academy Foreign
Affairs Conference (NAFAC) invited
students from both civilian and military
institutions to explore issues related to
this year's theme “Asia at the
Crossroads.”
The theme was of immense importance
as Asia has become a centre of power
and influence in world affairs. The
region's economy is fastest growing in
the world and the emerging regional
powers are at a strategic crossroads.
Asia is struggling to deal with the
converging promises and perils of
globalization as well as conventional and
non-conventional threats. How the Asian
nations manage their transitions at home
and abroad will decisively shape the
world's future.
Mr. Zeeshan-ul-Hasan Usmani (L) with Dr. Henry Kissinger, former Secretary
of State and a Nobel Peace Prize Winner
During the Conference, Zeeshan-ul-Hassan introduced his country to
hundreds of delegates and met with Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, former
Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Vice Admiral Rodney
P. Rempt, Superintendent United States Naval Academy, Captain Kevin
Lyles, Chief, International Security Strategies, OPNAV NSIS, Keiichi
Higuchi, First Secretary Embassy of Japan and Dr. Thomas J.
Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of East Asian
and Pacific Affairs among others.
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IIUI Confers Honorary Degree on OIC Secretary General
that the distortion of Islam and
attempts to defame it as an
extremist faith would contribute
negatively to the cause of
dialogue and world peace.
Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General, OIC, Lt. Gen. (R) Javed Ashraf Qazi,
Federal Minister for Education and others speak at the occasion
Calling for a multi-dimensional interfaith dialogue, Prof. Ekmeleddin
Ihsanoglu, Secretary General, OIC has urged universities and academicians
from the Muslim world to come forward with enhanced efforts for countering
Islamophobia and fostering atmosphere of dialogue between Muslims and the
Western Worlds. He was addressing a special convocation at the International
Islamic University, Islamabad organized for conferment of honorary degree of
D.Lit in recognition of his outstanding contribution in the development of the
Muslim world and re-activation of the OIC as a vibrant body.
Lt. Gen. (R) Javed Ashraf Qazi, Federal Minister for Education was chief guest
on the occasion. Makhdoom Khusru Bakhtiyar, State Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Dr. Manzoor Ahmad, Rector IIUI, Dr. Anwar Hussain Siddiqui, President
IIUI and a large number of ambassadors, diplomats, intellectuals and faculty
members of the University were also present.
Terming the increasing discrimination and intolerance against Muslims
particularly in Europe and North America a serious issue, Dr. Ihsanoglu said
Countering the phenomenon of
Islamophobia with all its forms
and aspects, rectifying the
increasing negative discourse of
the Western politicians and
media and disseminating the true
message and tenets of Islam can
not be achieved only through the
efforts of OIC Secretariat. Active
support of the member states is
essential for countering negative
propaganda against Islam and
Muslims', he said.
Dr. Ihsanoglu further stated that
the recognition of the present
day challenges by the OIC
leaders is a ray of hope for the
future of the Muslim world. “The
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34 meeting of the OIC foreign
ministers has approved criteria,
procedure and mechanism for
selection of 20 universities of the
Muslim world to be evolved to the
rank of first 500 universities of
the world and, hopefully, IIUI will
be one of them”, he said.
IIUI, Ningxia Academy China Ink MOU
The International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) and Ningxia Academy of
Social Sciences, China have signed an agreement for mutual cooperation in
academic fields. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Dr.
Anwar Hussain Siddiqui, President, IIUI and Mr. Lei Xingkui, Deputy President,
Ningxia Academy, who headed a six-member delegation of the Academy.
According to the MoU, the Chinese Academy will send researchers to learn
Arabic, English, Islamic Culture and other subjects each year at IIUI. The
travelling expenses will be borne by the Academy while the University will
provide accommodation and local hospitality. Moreover, IIUI will send its
members to Chinese Academy for conducting research and learning Chinese
language and culture. The Chinese academy will be allowed to reprint selected
Arabic articles published in the
annual journal of the University.
Both sides also agreed to foster
cooperation in fields of
Economics Research. According
to the agreement, IIUI will
establish a Department of
Chinese language in Islamabad.
The cooperation will also help
Dawah Academy to publish
Chinese language books for
preaching of Islam.
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Universities of Peshawar, Sistan to Start Joint PhD in Geology
A Memorandum of Understanding has
been signed between the University of
Peshawar and University of Sistan-
Baluchistan, Iran to start a joint PhD
programme of studies. Prof. Dr. Adam
Turkamanzehi from University of Sistan-
Baluchistan and Prof. Dr. Haroon Rashid,
Vice Chancellor, University of Peshawar
signed the agreement.
Dignitaries from Iranian Consulate and
Iranian Culture Centre, Peshawar
including Mr. Mohammad Eghbal
Asghari, Consul General and Mr. Masood
Eslami, Director General also graced the
occasion.
Prof. Dr. Asif Khan, Director, National
Centre of Excellence in Geology
presented details of the Agreement
including technical and financial protocol
being signed between the two
Universities. He assured full support
from the Centre in terms of curriculum
development, teaching and research to
make this programme a success.
Dr. Turkamanzehi admired the positive
response from the University of
Peshawar in materializing the
Agreement. He presented a shield of his
University to Prof. Haroon and extended,
on behalf of Chancellor of his University,
Dr. Haroon Rashid, Vice Chancellor, University of Peshawar and
Dr. Adam Turkamanzehi of University of Sistan-Baluchistan
sign the agreement to start Joint PhD Programme
invitation to Vice Chancellor and the senior faculty of the University for
participation in the launching ceremony of the proposed joint PhD
Programme at Zahedan in September this year.
Mr. Asghari stated his long-standing desire for close cooperation
between institutions of high learning between the two brotherly
countries. He assured full support not only from the consulate but from
the foreign office of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Workshops at PU Promote Use of Digital Library
The University of Peshawar organized a
series of one-day workshops to promote
the usage of digital resources available
through the National Digital Library
Programme. The purpose was to
maximize the utilization of these
resources by faculty members,
l i b r a r i a n s , r e s e a r c h s t u d e n t s
(PhD/MPhil) and postgraduate students.
A team of staff members was constituted
to act as resource persons/facilitators for
these workshops. They included Mr. Ibrar Mohammad, Ms Mukhtar
Shaheen, Mr. Tahir Jan, and Mr. Irfan Ullah. The workshops were
conducted in 19 different departments and institutes of the University
from March-May, 2007.
In his remarks, Prof. Dr. Haroon Rashid, Vice Chancellor, University of
Peshawar appreciated the efforts of Central Library Staff for holding the
workshops. He said that faculty members and research students could
only benefit from digital resources when they are adequately trained to
use these resources. He hoped that University community would make
best use of these resources for study and research.
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Seminar on Drug Related Problems at LCWU
A national seminar titled "Drug Related Problems, Who is
Responsible" was organized under the auspices of
Pharmacy Department of Lahore College for Women
University (LCWU), Lahore recently.
The main objective of the Seminar was to create public
awareness regarding drug related problems, and to bring
different professionals having divergent interests under
one umbrella so as to discuss the problems in a rational
way and give recommendations to develop an efficient
health care system.
Ch. Muhammad Iqbal, Minister for Health, Punjab, was
chief guest at the inaugural session. He said that the
Seminar had provided an excellent opportunity to health
care professionals to discuss the drug related problems in
detail. He hoped that there would be a fruitful and
conclusive discussion on the ways the pharmacists could
serve for the betterment of
therapeutic practices and patient
care.
Prof. Dr. Bushra Mateen, Vice
Chancellor, LCWU said that
awareness and understanding
the concept of pharmacoviligence
was need of the hour if we want to
safeguard the interest of patients
and protect them from drug
related problems. “We need to
develop a partnership among all
the players with ultimate goal of
providing drug therapy with minimized related
problems”, she stressed.
Those who attended the event included professors and
students from pharmacy departments of various
universities; doctors, pharmacists, nurses, retailers,
whole sellers; representatives of distribution networks,
WHO, Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Association, Pharma Bureau, natural pharmaceutical
industry and consumers; officers of both federal and
provincial health departments and legal experts.
The participants of the seminar unanimously
recommended that pharmaceutical sector should be
transformed into service oriented, instead of profit
based. They stressed upon the Government for
legislation to regulate practitioners, hospitals, polyclinics
and pathological laboratories in the private sector.
It was recommended that the curriculum for education in
medical colleges and pharmacy departments should be
revised in order to meet the challenges emerging from
drug related problems. Emphasis was laid on
development and implementation of an efficient ADR
reporting system on the same line as that of FDA, for
which all key stakeholders should be invited for designing
of this system by the federal and provincial governments.
The participants strongly recommended that all new drug
sales licenses should be issued to pharmacists only and
that there must be a joint effort by pharma sector and
academia to carry out bio-equivalence study, so that
public can get cost effective generic products.
There was an agreement that the multinational
companies in Pakistan should not be allowed to
manufacture and sell vitamins, antacid, simple
analgesics and carminative mixtures. The Ministry of
Health has been asked not to
register the medicine without
going through the therapeutic and
s a f e t y t e s t o n Pa k i s t a n i
population. It was suggested that
a public awareness programme
should be organized on regular
basis by inviting all key players
responsible for delivery of quality
drugs to the public. The
disposable products like syringes,
canulas drip sets and stunt etc.
should be brought under the Drug
Act 1976. Similarly there must be
an efficient system for disposal of hospital waste.
Moreover, an immediate legislation was demanded to
regulate production and promotion of products
manufactured under alternate system of medicines. In
addition, it was stressed to prepare a drug information
handbook by the highly trained physicians, pharmacist
and researchers in the field of drugs and medicine.
Dr. Farzana Nazir, Parliamentary Secretary Health was
chief guest for the concluding session. She said that
health is a fundamental human right and no government
could provide it without ensuring delivery of quality
drugs. “Our government is spending a lot of money to
improve the health care services”, she said. She was
impressed by the active discussion in the open forum.
“The recommendations made today are thought
provoking. I shall try my best to implement these through
concerned departments/agencies”, she said.
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UAAR Holds 8 Convocation
Educational Reforms are Yielding Results: Governor
Lt. Gen (R) Khalid Maqbool, Governor Punjab and Dr. Khalid Mahmood Khan, Vice Chancellor, University of
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Arid Agriculture at the 8 Convocation of the University
“The educational reforms introduced by the
Government have started yielding results as the
universities are producing quality researchers, scholars
and scientists to lead the country towards progress and
prosperity”. This was stated by Lt. Gen. (R) Khalid
Maqbool, Governor Punjab while speaking at the
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8 Convocation of University of Arid Agriculture (UAAR),
Rawalpindi recently. The Governor, who is also
Chancellor of the University, conferred degrees on the
graduates.
Stressing the importance of agricultural sector, he said
that the strength of the Punjab province lies in
agriculture. “By imparting proper and modern
knowledge to the students, we shall be able to meet the
requirements of international market”, he said.
The Chancellor emphasized the importance of research
and urged the students to carry out research in different
disciplines of agriculture such as Biotechnology and
Environmental Sciences. Appreciating the role of UAAR,
the Governor said that the enrolment in University has
been doubled in the last six years and the development
budget of the University would touch the figure of Rs.
800 million next year.
“The Government is making efforts to improve the
academic and research environment in universities by
allocating sufficient financial resources. Now, it is up to
faculty and students of these institutions to make full
use of these resources and contribute towards national
development”, he stressed.
He underlined the importance of utilizing modern
technologies in the field of agriculture. “All the
stakeholders including farmers, universities, research
organizations and market representatives must work
together to enhance quality crops production”, he said.
The Governor applauded the establishment of a subcampus
of UAAR at Khushab.
Earlier, in his welcome address, Prof. Dr. Khalid
Mahmood Khan, Vice Chancellor UAAR highlighted
salient features of programmes initiated by the
University in the last year, which include establishment
of placement bureau, quality control and initiation of
two new faculties namely Faculty of Forestry, Range
Management and Wildlife and Faculty of Veterinary and
Animal Sciences.
He said that classes in short courses in livestock at subcampus
in Khushab have started and those at the Food
Technology and Horticulture Department shall start
soon. He informed the Governor that a project has been
undertaken to strengthen the Department of
Entomology, costing about Rs. 34 million as well as to
improve and amplify sports facilities involving an
expenditure of Rs. 38 million.
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Open House for Students at Governor House, Lahore
In order to promote awareness and
sense of participation on issues of
national importance, open house events
for university students are arranged in
the Governor house, Lahore. The forum
on the topic "International Politics and
Challenges to Pakistan" was organized
on May 3, 2007.
Students from eight public sector
universities from all over the province
participated in the forum. Four themes of
discussion were finalized and the
students of two universities made their
deliberations.
The themes were 'Pakistan's role in
global politics', 'Pakistan's relevance
regarding geo-strategic perspective',
'Pakistan as a surety for a global and
regional stability' and 'India- Pakistan
peace process'.
The students actively participated and
shared their opinion on all the given
topics. A panel of experts and
Lt. Gen (R) Khalid Maqbool, Governor Punjab with the
students who participated in the Open House
moderators helped the students in understanding the main ideas. A
general discussion followed after each theme.
Lt. Gen. (R) Khalid Maqbool, Governor Punjab appreciated the students
for sharing their viewpoints. The students expressed their pleasure on
getting an opportunity for open discussion on the topics of national
interest. The Governor concluded the discussion on various themes
and related it to the happening in and around Pakistan. The
participants enjoyed the open house forum and felt encouraged.
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The 11 Convocation of the Ghulam
Ishaq Khan Institute (GIKI) of
Engineering, Sciences and Technology
was held on May 30, 2007. Lt. Gen. (R) Ali
Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, Governor
NWFP was chief guest on the occasion.
Addressing on the occasion, the
Governor said that in the present highly
competitive scenario Pakistan needs
engineers who have the capacity to
accept the challenges, the dedication to
pursue higher goals, ability to be
innovative and the professional
competence to play the role of a
troubleshooter.
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GIKI Holds 11 Convocation
“The graduate programme of GIK
Institute has been a remarkable success.
Lt. Gen (R) Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, Governor NWFP and
Dr. Abdullah Sadiq, Rector, GIKI with the graduating students
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It is indeed a great achievement that a large
number of scholars sponsored by HEC, NESCOM
and other prestigious organizations opt for
GIKI,” he said.
Dr. Abdullah Sadiq, Rector GIKI, said that during
the late eighties and early nineties the founding
fathers of this Institute, under the wise
leadership of former President Mr. Ghulam Ishaq
Khan, were able to mobilize enough funds from
non-governmental sources to build and equip
this sprawling fully residential campus.
Engr. Shams-ul- Mulk, President of the Society
for the Promotion of Engineering Sciences and
Technology in Pakistan (SOPREST) said, “We are
determined not to make any compromise on
quality.”
The degrees were awarded to 209 BS, MS and
PhD students as well as gold medals were given
to those who clinched top positions in their respective fields.
Umair Sadiq and Raheel Adnan Janjua bagged the Ghulam
Ishaq Khan medal and the Quaid-e-Azam medal respectively for
distinction in academics and overall best performance during
their studies in the Institute. Faculty-based gold medals for BS
programmes went to Waqar Aziz (Computer Science Software
Engineering), Farhan Imtiaz (Computer Science System
Engineering), Umair Sadiq (Electronic Engineering), Jawad
Munir (Engineering Sciences), Umair Tariq (Mechanical
Engineering) and Mr. Talha Shakil (Metallurgy and Materials
Engineering).
Recipients of cash prizes for the best academic performance in
MS programmes were Adeel Mumtaz (Computer Science and
Engineering), Kashif Mahmood and Khawer Javaid Manzoor
(Electronic Engineering), Ahmad Jan (Engineering Sciences),
Saad Hussain (Mechanical Engineering) and Muhammad Imran
Khan (Metallurgy and Materials Engineering). All the
participants observed a moment of silence and offered Fateha
for the departed soul of founder of GIKI, Ghulam Ishaq Khan,
who passed away on October 27, 2006.
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4 Degree Awarding Ceremony of Hamdard University
The fourth degree awarding ceremony of
Hamdard University's Islamabad campus was
held recently. Dr. Ishfaq Ahmed, Adviser to
Prime Minister on Science and Technology, was
chief guest on the occasion.
While congratulating the graduating students,
Dr. Ishfaq urged them to excel in their chosen
fields of studies. He said that the present
government was taking bold initiatives to
promote the education of science and
technology in the country.
He said that a lot had to be done to promote
research culture in our educational institutions.
“Except few institutions, there is a lack of quality
and advanced research in our country, especially
in the emerging areas of science and
technology”, he stressed.
Speaking on the occasion, Senator S. M. Zafar,
Chancellor Hamdard University said that the
Government was taking measures to build a
partnership between private and public sector
but the pace was slow. “This partnership should
be made on a faster track as we are already
lagging far behind and the global changes are
taking place at an accelerated pace, “he said.
A graduating student receives her degree at the Convocation
Welcoming the guests, Prof. Dr. Mohammad Iqbal Qureshi, Vice
Chancellor said that education was the prime tool to develop
and sustain inventiveness and to become more efficient in
achieving material gains. “Education is the only pathway to
quality human resource development and to enhance our
standing in the comity of nations”, he said.
Khawaja Ejaz Sarwar, Chief Executive Officer, Hamdard
University, Islamabad and Dr. Navaid-ul-Zafar, Vice-President,
Hamdard Foundation also addressed on the occasion.
Later, merit certificates were awarded to the students achieving
outstanding positions in HIMS, HIIT, and HIPS.
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Pak-Turkey Workshop on Chemical Sciences
Participants of the Pak-Turkey Workshop
The National Centre of Excellence in Analytical
Chemistry (NCEAC), University of Sindh, Jamshoro
jointly organized a three-day 'Pak-Turkey Workshop on
Chemical Sciences' in collaboration with the University
of Selcuk, Konya.
For this purpose, a seven-member delegation of NCEAC
paid a one week visit to Konya and Istanbul recently.
While speaking at the opening ceremony, Prof. Dr.
Muhammad Iqbal Bhanger, Director, NCEAC explained
the purpose of the Workshop. He highlighted the
importance of environmental pollution abatement
procedures in the present day scenario.
Dr. M. Y. Khuhawar, Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences
and Prof. Dr. Tasneem G. Kazi also discussed their
scientific work in the light of Workshop's theme, which
was highly appreciated. The NCEAC delegation also
included Dr. Ahsan Siddiqui, Ms. Farah Naz Talpur and
Mairaj A. Noorani.
Eminent Scientists from Middle East Technical
University, Ankara including Prof. Metin Balci, Prof.
Yavuz Ataman, Prof. Ayhan S. Demir also presented
their papers. Besides, scientists from various others
universities of Turkey also attended the Workshop.
A total of 18 presentations were made along with 32
poster presentations during which research fellows and
the teaching staff actively participated.
Meanwhile, the Department of Chemistry, Selcuk
University and the NCEAC also agreed to sign a
preliminary MoU for enhancing joint research
programmes and exchange of faculty members.
Prof. Bhanger and the accompanying academic staff
had detailed discussions with Prof. Dr. Mustafa Ersoz
and Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yilmaz of Selcuk University about
the joint research work between the two institutions.
They also discussed short-term exchange programme
of teachers and students in the near future.
After the Workshop, the Pakistani delegates were
invited to visit Konya Sugar Industry and Zade
Vegetable Oil Industry. Both these industries have most
modern automatic plant and have strong relations with
the University of Konya, Turkey.
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Biomedical Engineering Laboratories for MUET
Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad, Governor Sindh, recently
inaugurated the laboratories at Department of
Biomedical Engineering, Mehran University of
Engineering and Technology (MUET), Jamshoro.
The Governor, who is also Chancellor of the
University, was briefed about the infrastructure
and functional hierarchy of the Department by
Prof. N.P. Chowdhry. The chief guest was
accompanied by Dr. A.Q.K. Rajput, Vice
Chancellor, MUET and Prof. Dr. Aftab Memon,
Co-Chairman of the Department.
This was followed by practical demonstration of
t ra i n i n g e q u i p m e n t f o r b i o m e d i c a l
instrumentation by Mr. Amjad Ali, Mr. Noman
Khan and Mr. Mohsin Ahmed Shaikh
successively. Afterward, there was a
demonstration of the telemedicine project
conducted at the Department.
With a real time display of electrocardiograph on
a laptop screen, the Chancellor was escorted to
Biomedical Engineering Laboratory-2 where the
patient side was located. There was a patient
dummy simulating the ECG waveform.
The Governor was explained the project by Mr.
Mohsin Ahmed Shaikh and Mr. Amjad Ali. He
examined the hardware developed at
Biomedical Engineering Laboratory and the
software (Graphic User Interface) for viewing
Governor Sindh is being briefed about Biomedical Engineering
laboratories at MUET, Jamshoro.
real time electrocardiograph both on the computer screen of
the patient side and the consultant side, connected by wireless
connectivity recently installed in the Department.
This WiFi connectivity covers the whole Department. The guest
expressed his appreciation over the work demonstrated and
encouraged to introduce such solutions on larger scales.
The laboratory scheme of Rs. 31.857 million was approved by
the HEC. Under this Scheme, two faculty members also
completed their Masters from UK in Telemedicine and
Biomedical Engineering respectively and rejoined the
University.
National Seminar on Water Control at UAF
Pakistan is becoming a 'Water Scarce Country'
due to combined effects of population growth,
increasing crop water and industrial demand,
decreasing surface water reservoirs and
diminishing groundwater shortage. This was
stated by Prof. Dr. Bashir Ahmad, Vice
Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
while addressing the inaugural session of
National Seminar on “Water Control in Tertiary
Irrigation Channels- Issues and Remedies”.
Dr. Bashir expressed his concern over the
situation of rapid water shortage as per capita
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water availability has come down from 5000 m
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in 1950 to about 1100 m in recent years. “This situation is
marginally above the threshold limit of water scarcity i.e. 1,000
3
m per capita, which is shrinking further if additional surface
and groundwater resources are not developed” he added.
Highlighting the worst affects of constrained water availability,
the Vice Chancellor said that water shortage leads to less
energy, less industrial output, limited jobs, less tube well
operation, reduced agriculture, less food and farm income.
He stressed the need for utilizing all available resources to
conserve this precious resource and use it with a high degree of
efficiency. He said that the control and management of water at
tertiary part of the irrigation system has been a challenge for
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the past three and half decades
because of its extensive nature
which is responsible for water
losses to the tune of 40 per cent of
the flows delivered to the
watercourse network.
Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad Gill, Director
General, Water Management
Directorate said that effective
water control structures such as
round panel outlets in conjunction
with improvement and lining
options tend to offset the
effectiveness of the lining
programmes in achieving the goals
of conserving water losses.
Prof. Dr. M. Rafiq Choudhry,
Chairman, Department of
Irrigation and Drainage said that at
tertiary level, the control on
irrigation water is primarily
exercised through installation of
Prof. Dr. Bashir Ahmad, Vice Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad and
others sit on stage during the inaugural session of the Seminar
the control structures, generally known as field outlets and partly by the
watercourse lining and improvement activities by reducing water losses in the
watercourses and fields.
The third convocation of Comsats
I n s t i t u t e o f I n f o r m a t i o n
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Technology (CIIT), Lahore and 10
convocation of CIIT as a whole
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was held on April 13 , 2007.
A total of 673 graduating students
of different batches and
programmes were invited out of
which 550 students participated
a l o n g w i t h t h e i r
parents/guardians. This was the
highest number of students ever
participated in any convocation of
CIIT.
Third Convocation of CIIT Lahore
The graduating students included
108 of BCE, 197 of BCS, 71 of BIT,
182 of MBA, 51 of MBE, 56 of MCS
and eight of MSCS.
Ch. Nouraiz Shakoor, Minister for
Science and Technology, who is
also Chancellor of CIIT, was chief
A graduate receives his degree from Ch. Nouraiz Shakoor,
Minister for Science and Technology
guest on the occasion. The Minister awarded medals and degrees to the
graduating students. He also announced Rs. 30 Million for the campus buses
and strengthening of Laboratories in addition to Rs. 150,000/- as prize money
for the students.
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Earth Day Seminar at Karachi University
The Centre of Excellence in Marine
Biology, University of Karachi
organized a seminar entitled
'Human Activities and Marine
Environment' to mark the Earth
Day on April 22, 2007. About 150
participants attended the Seminar.
In his welcome address, Prof. Dr.
Javed Mustaquim, Director of the
Centre, said that Earth Day was
being celebrated to promote a
cleaner and safer environment for
everyone. “Earth Day is an
occasion for people to focus on
saving the environment and taking
part in activities that preserve the
constituents of earth-oceans, air
and land”, he said.
“Based on current scientific
evidences, emissions of green
gases from human activities are
projected to cause significant
global climate change during 21st
century. These would create novel
challenges for costal and marine
ecosystem that have already been
s t r e s s e d f r o m h u m a n
development, land-use change,
environmental pollution and overfishing,”
he added.
Prof. Naveed Ahmed Tahir,
Director, Area Study Centre for
E u r o p e , s a i d t h e U N
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, in its recent
report, had predicted that Asia
would be getting less rainfall,
affecting agricultural production
leading to food and water
shortages. ”About 60 million of
affected people would be from
South Asia”, she added.
Prof. I. Musu from Italy, who is
Scientific Coordinator of Euro-
Asian Research and Training in
Climate Change Management,
s a i d t h a t U N f r a m e w o r k
Group photograph of the seminar participants
convention on climate change addresses the problems, adding, a 'Clima' was
designed to work on them.
Interaction between climate change and sustainable development was the
focus of research area, he said, adding, the Clima has four Pakistanis as its
members.
He also mentioned the start of a two-week course programme on Costal
Management and Climate Change and Risk Assessment. He informed the
audience that experts from private and public sector would share their
information and knowledge with the course participants.
Giving a presentation on “Social impact assessment of Karachi”, Dr. Arshad Ali
Baig said that Pakistan had to play an important role in cyclic process of
monsoon season, adding, the climate change was not just because of global
warming, but also because of social problems. “Deforestation rate is very high
in the country and it is the main reason for climate change,” he added.
Prof. Altaf Khan made a presentation on “Environmental and Health Issues of
Pakistan”. He said that water and wastewater management, air pollution, solid
waste management, industrial waste and marine pollution are the main issues
confronting the country.
He said that 30 per cent of the land contributes 80 per cent pollution while rest
of 20 per cent comes from oceans. “So it is our responsibility to take serious
measures to save the earth”, he added.
Dr. S. M. Niaz Rizvi spoke on marine pollution and environment issue in the sea
along Pakistan coast. He said that ecosystem was bearing pollution effects and
the sea-level was also increasing. “This is not a good omen for people living
near coastal belt”, he added.
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Mathematics Colloquium at IoBM, Karachi
A Mathematics Colloquium entitled
“Optimization” was organized by the
Mathematics Society of the Institute of
Business Management (IoBM), Karachi.
The basic objective was to elicit
information about the importance of
Mathematics in academic, professional,
business and managerial excellence. The
participants proposed significant
measures for applying Mathematics in
economics, business and management.
Mr. Ashraf Janjua, Dean, College of
Business Management was chief guest
on the occasion. Various eminent
scholars and professionals gave their
presentations in different sessions of the
Colloquium.
Dr. Ejaz Ahmed, Head of CCSIS at IoBM,
highlighted the importance of
Mathematics in everyday life while Mr.
Wajahat Ali, the Society Adviser who had
a major role in organizing the Event,
narrated importance of the topic
“Optimization”.
Mr. Jawwad Ahmed Farid, Alchemy
Associates, presented his paper on
optimization portfolio related to actuarial
sciences. He discussed real life scenario
and addressed problems he faced while
working with KSE data. Prof. Dr. S. M. Aqil
Burney, University of Karachi, gave a
comparison of first and second order
training algorithms for ANN. He talked
about special minimization cases, such
as feed-forward network training.
Mr. Zaki Rashdi, National University of
Computer and Emerging Science (FAST),
gave an analysis of queuing problem by
simulation. He emphasized that
simulation approach may provide an
effective means to analyze and solve
such problems. Ms. Kahkashan Iqbal,
PAF-KIET Karachi, gave a presentation
on quantitative analysis on data of sales
of Honda atlas cars Pakistan limited. She
showed a real life application of
quantitative analysis to find out the
strengths of a relationship between
variables.
Mr. Talib S. Karim, Executive Director Academics, IoBM (L) presents award to
Mr. Ashraf Janjua, Dean, College of Business Management
Prof. Masood-ul-Haq, Usman Institute of Technology, gave a
presentation on reliability in networks for some systems. He discussed
two very commonly used designs of electric systems, network in
parallel and network in series, which can be used to develop other
complicated designs. Mirza Jawwad Baig of HIMS gave a presentation
on optimizing system information by its dimension. He discussed the
linear and non-linear computation methods applied to business
systems by using real life applications.
Prof. Dr. Jawaid Qamar, Dean Faculty of Sciences at Dadabhoy Institute
and the Session Chair, urged the educational planners, policy makers,
managers and faculty members to promote the concept of methodoriented
rather than job-oriented or market-oriented education.
Mr. Saghir Muhammad, Senior Lecturer and an organizer of the
Colloquium, presented recommendations of the “Mathematics
Colloquium 2007”. He said that complicated systems in business
cannot be analyzed through simple methods hence optimal course of
actions should be used to solve such problems.
Participants of the Colloquium pose for a group photograph
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Seminar on Afghan Refugees at University of Balochistan
A seminar entitled 'Afghan Refugees and Challenges of
Peace-building in Pakistan' was held at Department of
International Relations, University of Balochistan,
Quetta. The main objective of the Seminar was to
discuss the problems and complications for maintaining
peace and security both in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Prof. Sikandar Mehdi from International Relations
Department, University of Karachi was the guest
speaker. In his speech, he deliberated upon the living
conditions of Afghan refugees in Pakistan and its
implications on peace and security in the region. He also
gave various suggestions for organized repatriation of
the refugees.
Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akber Kundi gave his presentation on
'Pakistan as an Immigrant State'. He described various
phases and types of migration and highlighted state
policies on migration while comparing with Iran's
policies on migration.
Mr. Abdul Manan Bazai's presentation entitled 'Post 9/11
and its Implications on Pak-Afghan Relations' described
the overall conditions of the people of Afghanistan in the
wake of 9/11 and how it has affected the relations
between the two neighboring countries. He highlighted
the role of Pakistan as a frontline state and challenges
faced by it in countering terrorism. The speeches were
followed by a question-answer session.
Shams-ul-Mulk Elected as SOPREST President
Engr. Shams-ul-Mulk has been elected as new President
of Society for the Promotion of Engineering Sciences
and Technology in Pakistan (SOPREST). He has
succeeded late Mr. Ghulam Ishaq Khan, former
President of Pakistan, who was lifetime President of the
Society. The latter passed away on October 27, 2006.
Mr. Shams is associated with GIK Institute a brainchild
of Mr. Ghulam Ishaq Khan since 1996 when he was
selected as Founding Member of the General Council of
SOPREST and Member of the Board of Governors of the
Institute. He chaired meetings of the Board and the
Executive Committee during illness of the late President.
He has been elected for a term of five years through a
resolution unanimously passed by the Founding
Members of SOPREST.
A civil engineer by
profession, Mr. Shams-ul-
Mulk has served at key
positions in Water and
Power Development
Authority (WAPDA) and
f i n a l l y b e c a m e i t s
Chairman. He remained
associated with the
construction of major
projects including Tarbela
Dam, Mangla Dam and
Ghazi Barotha Hydro Project as well as major irrigation
and drainage projects in the Indus Basin. He has also
been a consultant to World Bank, Member of the
Technical Committee for Water Resources and Member
of the Cabinet of NWFP.
BUET Khuzdar Holds First Convocation
The first convocation of Balochistan University of
Engineering and Technology (BUET), Khuzdar was held
on May 8, 2007. Mr. Owais Ahmed Ghani, Governor
Balochistan, who is also Chancellor of BUET, was chief
guest at the occasion.
Addressing the graduates, Mr. Ghani said that education
alone could bring prosperity for a nation. “In the
prevailing socio-economic circumstances of the
province, quality education is essential in order to
improve human resource and people's life”, he said.
He advised the students to stay focused on their
education rather than politics or other negative
activities. “The prosperity and well being of Balochistan
relies on students' determination and devotion”.
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The Governor said that Government has
embarked upon around Rs. 312 million
for development projects in Balochistan
aimed at bringing province at par with
other regions of Pakistan. “These
projects include establishment of various
universities, colleges and other standard
educational and vocational institutions”,
he added.
He also announced that a Mining
Department and a Faculty of Humanities
would be established at the University.
M o r e o ver, h e a l s o m e n t i o n e d
establishment of a medical college at
Khuzdar. “The present Government is
determined to revolutionize human
resource development in Balochistan so
that the province could compete with
changing national scenario”, he stressed.
Speaking on the occasion, Brig. (R)
Mukhtar Ahmad, Vice Chancellor BUET
congratulated the graduating students
and said that the University has played a
pivotal part in imparting quality
engineering education in the face of
numerous constraints and hardships.
Mr. Owais Ahmed Ghani, Governor Balochistan gives away
degree to a graduating student
He praised the role of the Governor and Higher Education Commission
for their full fledge support and assistance in improving the various
aspects of University and hoped that they would continue their support
in future as well. In the end, Governor Balochistan Owais Ahmed Ghani
awarded degrees to 110 graduates and conferred 16 gold, six silver and
four bronze medals to the distinguished graduates.
st
The 21 Khwarizmi International
Award (KIA)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) invites all researchers, inventors, innovators
from all over the world to participate in the annual Khwarizmi International Award (KIA). The purpose of this Award is to
recognize outstanding scientific achievements and honour excellent research contribution by scientists in the field of
Engineering, Medical Sciences, Basic Sciences, Human Sciences, Agriculture and Emerging Technologies (bio, nano
et.,). The research works should fall into one of the following categories: Invention, Innovation, Applied Research and
Fundamental Research. All applications along with complete information are due by October 31, 2007. For guidelines
and application form, please concerned the KIA website: http\\khwarizmi.irost.ir
Key Dates:
October 31, 2007 : Deadline for Submission
January 10, 2008 : Announcement for Winners
First week of February : Awarding Ceremony
Send all material to:
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Successful HEC Scholars
Following is the list of HEC scholars who have completed their PhD Studies under various scholarship programmes of
Higher Education Commission. Following 10 PhD scholars have completed PhD under the HEC scheme titled
“Development of S&T Manpower through Indigenous PhD (300 Scholars) in Pakistan”. This is in addition to 10 PhD
scholars who had already completed their PhDs under this scheme.
Sr.
No.
1
2
3
4
Name of
Student
Dr. Iftikhar
Hussain
Bhatti
Dr. Muhammad
Azeem
Dr. Siraj ul
Islam
Dr. Hassan
Fawad
Junejo
5 Dr. Azizuddin
Name of
Supervisor
Dr. Riaz
Ahmad
Prof. Dr.
Arshad
Majeed Mirza
Dr. Nasir
Ahmad
Prof. Dr. M.
Pervaiz
Mughal
Subject
Agronomy
Physics
Informatics
and
Computer
Sciences
Mechanical
Engineering
Prof. Dr. M.
Iqbal Chaudhry Chemistry
Thesis Title
Agro-Physiological Studies
on Sesame-Legumes
Intercropping Systems
Under Different Geometric
Arrangements
Self-organized and Chaotic
States in
Electron-Positron-Ion
Magnetoplasma with
Equilibrium Flows
Numerical Solution of
Boundary– Value Problems
Using Non-Poylynomial
Spline-Function
Finite Element Modeling of
Weld Based Rapid
Prototyping
Phytochemical Studies on
Murraya Paniculata and
Related Medicinal Plants of
Pakistan and Microbial
Transformation of Bioactive
Compounds
Year of
Passing
2006
2006
2006
Name of
University
University of
Agriculture,
Faisalabad
QAU,
Islamabad
PIEAS,
Islamabad
2006 GIKI, S&T Topi
2006
HEJ Research
Institute of
Chemistry,
University of
Karachi,
Karachi
6
Dr. Muhammad
Naeem
Dr. Wasim
Ahmad
Biological
Sciences
Identification of Genes
Involved in Inherited
Ectodermal Dysplasias
2006
Quaid-e-Azam
University,
Islamabad
7
8
9
10
Dr. Naeem
Ahmad
Dr. Shah
Alam
Dr. Syed
Abdul Muiz
Dr. Siraj ul
Islam
Dr. Fayyaz ul
Hassan
Prof. Dr.
Farman Ullah
Dr. Khasan S.
Karimov
Prof. Dr. S.
Ikram Tirmizi
Agronomy
Plant
Protection
Electronics
Engineering
Engineering
Sciences
Response of Wheat to
Subsurface Soil Compaction
and Improvement
Strategies
Integrated Pest
Management of Wheat
Aphids
Organic Semiconductor
Electronics
Effect of New Cross-section
Evaluations on Criticality
and Neutron Energy
Spectrum of a Typical
Material Test Resear ch
Reactor
2006
2006
2006
2006
University of
Arid
Agriculture,
Rawalpindi
NWFP
Agricultural
University,
Peshawar
GIK, Institute
of S&T, Topi,
Swabi
GIK, Institute
of S&T, Topi,
Swabi
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The following 10 Scholars completed their PhDs under the Scholarship Scheme titled “Merit Scholarship Scheme for PhD
Studies in Science and Technology (200 Scholarships)”. This is also in addition to five scholars who had already
completed their PhDs.
Sr.
No
1
2
Name
Dr. Muhammad
Sajid
Dr. Tooba
Feroze
Name of
Supervisor
Dr. Tasawar
Hayat
Prof. Dr.
Asghar Qadir
Subject
Mathematics
Applied
Mathematics
Thesis Title
Similar and Nonsimilar
Analytic Solutions
for Steady Flows of
Differential Type Fluids
Some Aspects of
Symmetries of Differential
Equation and Their
Connection with the
Underlying Geometry
Year of
Passing
2006
2006
Name of
University
Quaid-i-Azam
University,
Islamabad
Quaid-i-Azam
University,
Islamabad
3
5
6
7
8
9
10
Dr. Mohammad
Javed Khan
Dr. Muhammad
Rizwan
Dr. Sammar
Yousaf
Dr. Naveen
Mukhtar
Dr. Kiran
Iqbal
Dr. Muhammad
Farooq
Dr. Irfan
Afzal
Dr. Aslam
Ibrahim
Dr. Nasir
Ahmad
Dr. M. Iqbal
Choudhary
Dr. Abdul
Malik
Dr. Abdul
Malik
Dr. Nazir
Ahmad
Dr. Nazir
Ahmad,
Professor
Nuclear
Engineering
Nuclear
Engineering
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Crop
Physiology
Crop
Physiology
Study of Design Parameters
of Natural Uranium Fueled
Nuclear Research Reactors
Coefficients, Wims-D/4,
Citation
A Core Conversion Study by
Using Higher Density Low
Enriched Uranium Fuels
Isolation, Structure
Elucidation and
Biotransformation Studies
on Secondary Metabolites
from Withania somnifera
and Related Plants
Studies in the Chemical
Constituents of Erigeron
Canadensis (Conyza
Canadensis) and Berchemia
Pakistanica
Phytochemical Studies on
Duranta Repen Linn. and
Ehretia Obtusifolia Hochst
Assessment of Physiological
and Biochemical Aspects of
Pre-sowing Seed
Treatments in Transplanted
and Direct Seeded Rice
Seed Enhancements to
Induce Salt Tolerance in
Wheat
2006
2006
2007
2005
2005
2005
2005
Pakistan
Institute of
Engineering
and Applied
Sciences
(PIEAS),
Islamabad
Pakistan
Institute of
Engineering &
Applied
Sciences
(PIEAS),
Islamabad
HEJ Research
Institute of
Chemistry,
University of
Karachi,
Karachi
HEJ Research
Institute of
Chemistry,
University of
Karachi,
Karachi.
HEJ Research
Institute of
Chemistry,
University of
Karachi,
Karachi
University of
Agriculture,
Faisalabad
University of
Agriculture,
Faisalabad
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The following scholar has completed his PhD under the scheme titled “Development/Strengthening of Selected
Departments of Social Sciences & Humanities in General Universities of Pakistan”
Sr. Name
No
1 Mr. Shabbir
Ahmed Khan
Name of
Supervisor
Dr. Sarfraz
Khan
Subject Thesis Title Year of
Passing
Name of
University
Economics Uzbekistan’s
2006 University of
Agricultural
Peshawar,
Organization and
Peshawar
Management, 1990-
2000: with Reference
to Cotton
National Research Grant for Universities
Under Research Grant Project of Higher Education Commission, creative researchers of the country working in various
fields of science and technology as well as social sciences are awarded research grants to enable them to conduct R&D in
priority areas of science and technology, relevant to national needs.
Twenty six approved projects are being included in this issue. The other project proposals will continue to be published
in the forthcoming issue of the magazine.
Principal Investigator Subject Institution Amount Rs. Period
Dr. Hamidullah Shah
Dr. Nasir Ahmad Saeed
Dr. Abdul Hakeem Shaikh
Dr. Raheel Qamar
Dr. Abdur Rab
Dr. Hidayat -ur-Rahman
Dr. Shahla Siddiqui
Mycotoxins in cereal crops as a risk
factor for food safety in Pakistan
Molecular genetic study of NBS-
LRR super-family of resistance (R)
genes for developing leaf rust
disease resistance in wheat
(T. aestivum)
Ecology, dynamics and potential of
some micro-organisms on
population health of Karachi
district
Mapping the genes responsible for
autosomal recessive retinitis
pigmentosa
Evaluation of heat treatment
methods for the posthaevest
quality and storage life of citrus
(sweet orange) fruit
Production of modified double
cross maize hybrids as source of
low cost seed
An assessment of expectations of
families of patients admitted in the
intensive care unit
NWFP Agricultural
University, Peshawar
Quaid-i-Azam University,
Islamabad
Federal Urdu University
of Arts, Sciences and
Technology, Gulshan -e-
Iqbal Campus, Karachi
COMSATS Institute of
Information Technology,
Islamabad
NWFP Agriculture
University, Pesh awar
NWFP Agriculture
University, Peshawar
The Aga Khan University,
Karachi
1,901,117 3 Years
1,968,600 3 Years
1,974,995 3 Years
5,964,450 3 Years
1,032,240 2 Years
1,705,170 3 Years
56,304 3 Months
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Principal Investigator Subject Institution Amount Rs. Period
Dr. Dileep Kumar Rohra
Dr. Asifa Ahmed
Postgraduate diploma in physics
education- training physics Federal Urdu University
Dr. Tahira Nasreen graduates for the teaching of Arts, Sciences and
Arshed
profession using research-based
interactive techniques in quality
education
Technology, Karachi
Campus
Dr. Zahid Mahmood
Dr. Yasin Raashid
Dr. Farooq Latif
Dr. Muhammad Raza
Shah
Dr. Sumayy a Saied
Quantification of cell free fetal
mRNA in maternal plasma: an
approach towards the development
of a predictive biochemical marker
for preeclampsia
Differential proteomic analysis of
human ocular fluids
Parent-child relationship:
attachment styles, parental–
rearing and children behavioural
problems
The release trial: a randomised trail
of umbilical vein oxytocin versus
placebo for the treatment of
retained placenta
Strain improvement of Humicola
specie/s for over production of
cellulase and application in the
finishing of garments
Synthesis of Nanotubes and ring
polymers from realm of scientific
curiosoty to reality
Evaluation of disinfection byproducts
(DBPs) and mutagen level
and their formation potential
associated health risk in the various
sources of drinking water of
Karachi
The Aga Khan University,
Karachi
COMSATS Institute of
Information and
Technology, Islamabad
3,105,900 2 Years
1,099,050 2 Years
3,723,500 2 Years
G. C. University, Lahore 2,099,645 3 Years
King Edward Medical
University, Lahore
Quaid-i-Azam University,
Islamabad
University of Karachi,
Karachi
University of Karachi,
Karachi
829,770 3 Years
3,704,640 3 Years
1,899,451 3 Years
1,948,000 2 Years
Dr. Majid Mumtaz
Evaluation of heavy metals pollution
in the edible fishes of Arabian Sea
along the Karachi coastal region
University of Karachi,
Karachi
764,000 1 Year
Dr. Muhammd Afzal
Ghauri
Dr. Tahira Iqbal
Dr. S heikh Abdul Saeed
Biotechnological applications of
microorganisms in bioleaching and
bioremediation of metals
Molecular heterogeneity of
acetylation of different probe drugs
in local populations
Effect of chronic treatment with the
constituents of nigella sativa seeds
extract on reproductive parameters
in male rat
Quaid-i-Azam University,
Islamabad
University of Agriculture,
Faisalabad
The Aga Khan
University, Karachi
3,598,927 3 Years
4,384,470 2 Years
972,391 3 Years
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Principal Investigator Subject Institution Amount Rs. Period
Dr. Nasrullah Khan
Dr. Noor Abbas Din
Khattak
Dr. Sheikh Riazuddin
Dr. Asad Ali
Dr. Shafique Ahmad
Arian
Dr. Rabia Hussain
Dr. Syed Ali
Minimum ignition energy study of
combustible fuel gases
Generation and characterization of
cold plasma for deposition on solid
surfaces
Studies on the role of tricellulin tight
junction protein
Incidence and management of
mosaic disease of cucurabit in
NWFP
Synthesis, characterization, thermal
degradation and burning of
nanocomposite polymeric materials
Identification of biomarkers
indicating risk of disease
development in exposed household
contacts of tuberculosis patients
Antiviral effects of fluoroquinolones
on hepatitis C virus
Federal Urdu University
of Arts, Sciences &
Technology, Islamabad
Gomal University, D. I.
Khan
University of the Punjab,
Lahore
NWFP Agriculture
University, Peshawar
9,477,735 3 Years
5,297,565 3 Years
11,222,290 3 Years
4,798,520 2 Years
Shah Abdul Latif
University, Khairpur
5,730,457 3 Years
The Aga Khan
University, Karachi
6,333,159 3 Years
The Aga Khan
University, Karachi
9,722,196 3 Years
Travel Grants to Teachers
Following travel grants, for the faculty members of public sector universities, were sanctioned in March 2007:
Name & Address of Applicant Title of Conference Venue
Mr. Irshad Ahmed, Research
Associate, Centre of IT, IMS,
Peshawar
Mr. Fazl -e-Hadi, PhD Scholar, D/o
Computer Science, IIU, Islamabad
Mr. A.Salman Mirza, Assistant
Prof/Network Engineer D/o Bio-
Informatics, GC University, Faisalabad
Dr. Abdul Ghaffar, Assistant Prof. D/o
Meterology, CIIT, Islamabad
Mr. Muhammad Ashraf, Senior
Scientific Assistant CENUM, PAEC,
Mayo Hospital, Lahore
Dr. Zubair Ahmed Memon, Lecturer,
D/o Civil Engineering, MUET,
Jamshoro
3 rd International
Colloquium on Signal
Processing and its
Applications
IEEE International
Conference on
Integration
Technology
4 th International
Conference on
Business Management
2007
Malaysia 9-11.03.2007 107,730
China 20-24.03.2007 106,060
Sri Lanka 22.03.2007 43,680
4 th Gulf Seismic Forum Kuwait 24-27.03.2007 34,160
To Pursue PhD Mexico March, 2007 55,000
To Pursue PhD
Malaysia
Date(s) of
Conference
Last week of
March, 2007
Recommended
Grant in PKR
15,720
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Name & Address of Applicant Title of Conference Venue
Mrs. Tanveer Fatima Miano, Lecturer,
D/o Horticulture, SAU, Tandojam
Mr. Jamil Ahmed Jokhio, PhD Scholar,
D/o Horticulture, SAU, Tandojam
Dr. Nusrat Jahan, Associate Prof. D/o
Zoology, GC Univ. Lahore
Dr. Siraj -ul-Islam, Assistant Prof. D/o
Basic Sciences, UET, Peshawar
Mr. Muhammad Ali, Lecturer, D/o
Computer Science, IMS, Peshawar
Mr. Yaseen Ahmed Meenai, Lecturer,
Centre of Computer Studies, IBA,
Karachi
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zafrullah, F/o
Telecommunication and Information
Engineering, UET, Taxila
Mr. Riffat Asim Pasha, Asst. Prof., D/o
Mechanical Engineering, UET, Taxila
Syed Riaz Akbar Shah, Assistant Prof.
D/o Mechanical Engineering, NWFP
UET, Peshawar
Prof. Dr. Abdur Rashid, Director,
Centre for Plant Biodiversity, U/o
Peshawar
Mr. Haider Abbas, Horticulturist,
Karachi University Botanic Garden,
U/o Karachi
Prof. Dr. Fauzia Shamim, Professor,
D/o English, U/o Karachi
Prof. Dr. Ghulam Taqi Bangash, Dean,
F/o Arts and Humanities, U/o
Peshawar
Mr. Muhammad Khaleequzzaman,
Head, D/o Islamic Banking and
Finance, IIU, Islamabad
International
Symposium on
Prospects of
Horticultural Industry
in Pakistan
International
Symposium on
Prospects of
Horticultural Industry
in Pakistan
73 rd Annual Meeting
AMCA
South African
Numerical and Applied
Mathematics
Symposium
International
Conference of
Information
Technology (ITNG)
3 rd International
Conference on
Research Education in
Mathematics
Al-Azhar Engineering
9 th International
Conference 2007
Al-Azhar Engineering
9 th International
Conference 2007
SAE World Congress
2007
3 rd Global Botanic
Garden Congress
3 rd Global Botanic
Garden Congress
Date(s) of
Conference
Recommended
Grant in PKR
Faisalabad 28-30.03.2007 22,260
Faisalabad 28-30.03.2007 19,550
USA 01-05.04.2007 174,690
South Africa 02-04.04.2007 66,920
USA 02-04.04.2007 99,478
Malaysia 10-12.04.2007 73,620
Egypt 12-14.04.2007 82,960
Egypt 12-14.04.2007 81,040
USA 16-19.04.2007 174,700
China 16-20.04.2007 151,920
China 16-20.04.2007 105,560
IATEFL Conference Scotland UK 18-22.04.2007 113,080
International
Conference - Religions
on the Borders - New
Challenges in the
Academic Studies
IIUM International
Conference on Islamic
Banking and Finance
Sweden 19-22.04.2007 136,000
Malaysia 23-25.04.2007 91,495
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Name & Address of Applicant Title of Conference Venue
Mr. Muhammad Ahtisham Aslam, PhD
Scholar, D/o Computer Science, U/o
Leipzig, Germany
Dr. Iftikhar Ahmed, Professor, D/o
Electrical Engineering, Federal Urdu
University, Islamabad
Prof. Dr. Abdul Rehman, D/o
Architecture, UET, Lahore
Dr. Muhammad Zubair, Asst. Prof.,
D/o Horticulture, NWFP Agriculture,
Peshawar
Ms. Shamaila Sadaf, PhD Scholar, D/o
Chemistry, UET, Lahore
Ms. Kiran Bano, PhD Scholar, D/o
Chemistry, UET, Lahore
Dr. Asad Ali, Lecturer, D/o Plant
Pathology, NWFP Agriculture
University, Peshawar
Mr. Zahir Ali, Lecturer, D/o
Biotechnology, U/o Malakand
Prof. Dr. Nazir Ahmed Memon,
Chairman, D/o Cardiology, LUMHS,
Jamshoro
Mr. At taullah Shah, Lecturer, D/o
Management Sciences, IMS, Peshawar
11 th International
Conference on
Computer Supported
Cooperative
11 th International
Conference on
Computer Supported
Cooperative
Middle East Garden
Tradition
International Medicinal
and Aromatic
Conference on
Culinary Herbs
211 th Meeting of the
Electrochemical
Society Chicago
211 th Meeting of the
Electrochemical
Society Chicago
Annual Meeting of
Phytopathological
Society of Japan
Australia 26-28.04.2007 100,100
Australia 26-28.04.2007 128,800
USA 26-29.04.2007 82,670
Turkey
April 29—May
04.2007
137,610
USA 06-11.05.2007 141,840
USA 06-11.05.2007 141,840
Japan 28-30.03.2007 127,600
To Pursue PhD South Korea 28.02.2007 40,000
CIT 2007
14 th Annual Global
Finance Conference
China
Date(s) of
Conference
March 28 – April
01, 2007
Recommended
Grant in PKR
75,970
Australia 01-04.04.2007 168,100
Mr. Muhammad Adeel, Lecturer,
College of Aeronautical Engineering,
NUST, Risalpur
Ms. Amtul Hafeez, PhD Scholar, D/o
Economics, QAU, Islamabad
Mr. Usman Ashraf, PhD Student, D/o
Computer Science, INSA Toulouse,
France
Dr. Fateh Chand Oad, Associate Prof.
D/o Agronomy, SAU, Tandojam
Mr. Muzzammil Hussain Siddiqui,
Assistant Prof. (Agronomy), AJK
University, Muzaffarabad
Mr. Narinder Parshad Chowdhry, Asst.
Prof., D/o Biomedical Eng ineering,
MUET, Jamshoro
4 th International
Conference on
Information
Technology: New
Generations
Labour Market and
Competitiveness
5 th International
Symposium on
Modeling and
Optimization
Soil Science
Conference Malaysia
2007
Soil Science
Conference Malaysia
2007
Educational
Programme of Med-e-
Tel 2007
USA 02-04.04.2007 156,460
Poland 12-14.04.2007 74,090
Cyprus 16-20.04.2007 70,000
Malaysia 17-19.04.2007 89,380
Malaysia 17-19.04.2007 97,160
Luxembourg 18-20.4.2007 109,580
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Name & Address of Applicant Title of Conference Venue
Mr. Nek Muhammad Shaikh, PhD
Student, D/o Physics, QAU, Islamabad
Dr. Naza r Hussain Soomro, Assistant
Prof. D/o Psychological Testing,
Guidance and Research, U/o Sindh,
Jamshoro
Mr. Qamar Iqbal, PhD Student, D/o
Mechanical Engineering, UET, Taxila
Mr. Nadeem Ahmed Sheikh, Assist.
Prof., D/o Mechanical Eng ineering, Air
University, Rawalpindi
Ms. Zohra Jabeen, Assistant Prof.
IMS, Peshawar
15 th International
Symposium
"Spectroscopy in
Theory and Practice"
9 th International
Conference of Practical
Psychology
15 th International
Conference on Nuclear
Engineering
(ICONE15)
15 th International
Conference on Nuclear
Engineering
(ICONE15)
IIUM International
Conf. on Islamic
Banking and Finance
2007 (IICIBF)
Date(s) of
Conference
Recommended
Grant in PKR
Slovenia 18-21.04.2007 79,950
Ukraine 19-22.04.2007 77,115
Japan 22-26.04.2007 155,570
Japan 22-26.04.2007 125,324
Malaysia 23-25.04.2007 80,310
Mr. Mansab Ali, MS Student, D/o
Computer Science, PAF-KIET, Karachi
CISE 2007 Spain 25-27.04.2007 131,599
Mr. Rafiullah, PhD Student, D/o
Computer and Information Sciences,
PIEAS, Islamabad
Prof. Dr. Zulfaqar Ali Chughtai, D/o
International Relation, U/o
Balochistan, Quetta
Dr. Alam Khan, Meritorious Prof. D/o
Human Nutrition, NWFP Agriculture
University, Peshawar
Prof. Dr. Shad Khan Khalil, D/o
Agronomy, NWFP Agriculture
University, Peshawar
Dr. Iqbal Munir, Asst. Prof., Institute
of Biotechnology and Genetic
Engineering, NWFP Agriculture
University, Peshawar
Prof. Dr. Ahmad Khan Baloch,
Eminent Scholar, D/o Food Sc ience
and Technology, Gomal University, D.
I. Khan
Prof. Dr. Ghulam Sarwar Markhand,
Prof. & PD, D/o Botany, SALU,
Khairpur
4 th International
Conference on
Machine Learning and
Pattern Recognition
2 nd Annual Conference,
International
Association for the
Study of Environment,
Space and Place
Experimental Biology
2007 (IC/AM)
International Medicinal
and Aromatic
Conference on
Culinary Herbs
International Medicinal
and Aromatic
Conference on
Culinary Herbs
4 th Symposium on
Date Palm in Saudi
Arabia
4 th Symposium on
Date Palm in Saudi
Arabia
Spain 25-27.04.2007 118,200
USA 26-28.04.2007 132,610
USA
Turkey
Turkey
Saudi
Arabia
Saudi
Arabia
April 28-May 02
2007
April 29 – May
04 2007
April 29-May 04
2007
176,840
139,770
137,610
5-8.05.2007 48,210
5-8.05.2007 52,690
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Name & Address of Applicant Title of Conference Venue
Mr. Saqib Rehan Ayyubi, PhD
Scholar, D/o Computer Science,
National U/o CES, Lahore
Dr. Ali Khan Khuwaja, Asst. Prof., D/o
Family Medicine, Aga Khan University,
Karachi
Dr. Faheem ul Islam, Faculty Member,
D/o Business Management, LUMS,
Lahore
Dr. Mona Lisa, Assistant Professor,
D/o Earth Sciences, QAU, Islamabad
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yousaf Anwar,
D/o Metallurgical and Materials
Engineering, UET, Lahore
Dr. Muhammad Abdul Qadir,
Professor, D/o Computer Science,
MAJU, Islamabad
Mr. Javed Ahmed Mahar, Lecturer,
D/o Computer Sciences, SALU,
Khairpur
Syed Tufail Hussain Shah, Asst. Prof.,
NCE in Analytical Chemistry, U/o
Sindh Jamshoro
Prof. Syed Makhdoom Hussain , C/o
Excellence in Mrine Biology, U/o
Karachi
Mr. Nazar Abbas Shah, PhD Scholar,
D/o Physics, QAU, Islamabad
Mr. Abid Ali, PhD student, D/o
Physics, QAU, Islamabad
Ms. Sobia Khurram, Lecturer, I/o
Administrative Sciences, U/o the
Punjab, Lahore
Prof. Dr. Tasneem Kazi, Prof., NCE in
Analytical Chemistry, U/o Sindh
Jomshror
Ms Shazia Akhtar, Lecturer, D/o Soil
Science and Humanities, Air
University, Islamabad
Mr. Babar Zaheer Butt, PhD Scholar,
D/o Management Sciences,
Foundation University, Rawalpindi
Software
Measurement
European Forum
International
Conference of the
Journal Public Health
Annual Conference on
Corporate Strategy
5 th International
Conference on
Seismology and
Earthquake
Engineering
PowderMet 2007
International
Conference and
Exhibition on Powder
Metallurgy
2 nd International
Conference on
Internet and Web
Applications
2007 ACM/IEEE
International
Conference on
Computer Sciences
and Applications
98 th AOCS Annual
Meeting and Expo
5 th International
Fisheries Observe
Conference
14 th Semiconducting
and Insulating Material
Conference
14 th Semiconducting
and Insulating Material
Conference
44 th Annual
Conference of Eastern
Academy
3 rd International
Symposium Federation
of European Societies
2007 Academy for
Global Business
Advancement World
Congress
AGBA 4 th Annual World
Conference
Date(s) of
Conference
Recommended
Grant in PKR
Rome, Italy 09-11.05.2007 102,510
Portugal 9-11.05.2007 98,810
Germany 11-12.05.2007 108,045
Iran 13-16.05.2007 93,700
USA 13-16.05.2007 207,745
Mauritius 13-19.05.2007 170,920
Jordan 13-16.05.2007 109,590
Canada 13-16.05.2007 170,765
Canada 15-18.05.2007 169,290
USA 15-20.05.2007 171,640
USA 15-20.05.2007 183,640
USA 16-19.05.2007 139,800
Spain 16-19.05.2007 150,815
Malaysia 21-25.05.2007 93,330
Malaysia 21-25.05.2007 93,330
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Name & Address of Applicant Title of Conference Venue
Mr. Muhammad Shafiq Shahid, PhD
Scholar, NIBGE, QAU, Islamabad
Mr. Muhammad Tahir, PhD Scholar,
D/o School of Biological Sciences, U/o
the Punjab, Lahore
Prof. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan Rajput,
VC, D/o Computer Sciences and
Software Engineering, MUET,
Jamshoro
Mr. Jawed Qureshi, Lab oratory
Lecturer, D/o Civil Engineering, MUET,
Jamshoro
Dr. Mulazim Hussain Bukhari,
Assistant Prof. D/o Pathology, King
Edward Medical University, Lahore
Prof. Dr. Razia Musarrat, Chairperson,
D/o Political Science, Islamia
University, Bahawalpur
Dr. Pervez Zamurrad Janjua, Foreign
Professor, IIIE, Intel. I nstitute of
Islamic Economics, IIU, Islamabad
Dr. Asmat Ullah Khan, Vice
Chancellor, U/o Science &
Technology, Bannu
Prof. Dr. Qibla Ayaz, Dean, F/o
Islamic and Oriental Studies, U/o
Peshawar
5 th International
Germinivirus
Symposium and 3 rd
International ssDNA
Workshop
5 th International
Germinivirus
rd
Symposium and 3
International ssDNA
Workshop
A forthcoming annual
International R&D
Summit on beyond
third generation
wireless
NAFEMS World
Congress 2007
Engineering Simulation
Workshop/Postgraduate
Course and
Symposium on the
Clinicopathological
Aspect of Hepatobiliary
Nuclearization of South
Asia: Consequences,
Challenges and Peace
Prospects
Policy Framework for
Public Utility
Management
National Level
Seminar on
Information and
Communication
Seminar on Hudood
Ordinance and
Women's Right
Protection Act
International
Conference of
Paediatric surgery and
Symposium on Cleft
Lip & Palate
Literacy Among
Children with
Disabilities. A New
Imperative
Date(s) of
Conference
Recommended
Grant in PKR
Brazil 20-26.05.2007 146,180
Brazil 20-26.05.2007 150,400
USA 21-23.05.2007 208,430
Canada 22-25.05.2007 169,230
Grants to Organize Seminars/Conferences
Prof. Mahmood Shaukat, D/o
Paediatric Surgery, King Edward
Medical University, Lahore
Prof. Dr. Abdul Hameed, Chairman,
D/o Special Education, U/o the
Punjab, Lahore
Prof. Riazuddin, Director General,
National Centre for Physics, QAU,
Islamabad
International
Symposium on
Contemporary Physics
Lahore 10-13.03.2007 70,000
Bahawalpur 11-13.03.2007 390,000
Islamabad 14.03.2007 195,000
Bannu 15.03.2007 125,000
Peshawar 15.03.2007 75,000
Lahore 22-29.03.2007 805,000
Lahore 26-27.03.2007 200,000
Islamabad 26-30.03.2007 700,000
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Name & Address of Applicant Title of Conference Venue
Prof. Dr. Samar Fatima, Dean, F/o
Islamic Studies, U/o the Punjab,
Lahore
Mr. Muhammad Asif, Assistant
Professor, D/o Physics, CIIT,
Islamabad
Prof. Dr. Khushi Muhammad, Director,
WTO Quality Control Laboratory,
UVAS, Lahore
Mr. Abdul Sattar Khan, Asst. Prof.,
D/o Physical Education and Sports
Sciences, Islamia University,
Bahawalpur
Prof. Dr. Qibla Ayaz, Dean, F/o
Islamic and Oriental Studies, U/o
Peshawar
Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Iqbal, Director,
Institute of Education and Research,
U/o the Punjab, Lahore
Prof. Dr. Nosheen Rahman, Director,
Centre for Clinical Psychology, U/o the
Punjab, Lahore
Dr. Muhammad Hafeez, Dr. Andera
Fleschenberg, Ms. Riffat Munawar,
Director HEC Prof., Asst. Prof.
Institute of Social Cultural Studies,
U/o the Punjab
Exigencies of Research
in the Changing
Modern World: Some
Aspects
6 th International
Workshop-cum-
Training Course on
Microelectronics
Extraction &
Purification of AFLA
toxin from
Food/Animal Feed &
its Quantitative
Detection through
HPLC…..
Development of Sports
Nurseries in
Educational
Institutions
Lahore 20-21.03.2007 240,000
Islamabad 9-13.04.2007 700,000
Lahore
2 nd Week of
April, 2007
90,000
Bahawalpur 11.04.2007 45,000
Seminar on Ruiat-Hilal Peshawar 15.04.2007 50,000
Changing Role of
Teacher in the Era of
Globalization
National Conference
on Gender Issues in
21 st Century
Conference on
Women's
Empowerment and
Social Transformation
Date(s) of
Conference
Recommended
Grant in PKR
Lahore 16-17.04.2007 400,000
Lahore 23.04.2007 91,684
Lahore 23-24.04.2007 780,000
Prof. Dr. Habib Ahmad Dean, Prof. Dr.
Imtiaz Ahmad, FFP., F/o Science, D/o
Genetics, Hazara University, Mansehra
Dr. Rubina Tareen, Chairperson, D/o
Urdu, B.Z. University, Multan
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Aslam Pervez,
Institute of Horticulture Sciences, U/o
Agriculture, Faisalabad
Utilization of DNA
Technology, in Plant
Improvement
Evaluation of Three
Major Literary
Movements in Urdu in
the Context of Global
Changes
Prospects of
Horticulture Industry
in Pakistan
Mansehra 23-27.04.2007 232,000
Multan
rd
3 Week of
April, 2007
98,900
Faisalabad 28-30.03.2007 1,040,000
Corrigendum
This is with reference to the news item 'HEC Scholar Gets PhD Degree in Physics' published in May 2007 issue of HEC
News and Views. It is clarified that Dr. Nasir Amin is actually the scholar from HEC Scheme titled "Development of S&T
Manpower through Indigenous PhD (300 Scholars)" instead of “Indigenous 5000 PhD Fellowship Scheme”. The error is
deeply regretted.
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