Karachi university examination forms submission

KU to accept examination forms till 28th
Karahi, Aug 27: Karachi University (KU) controller examinations has announced that the examination forms and fees of external B.A. (Pass), B.Com (Pass), and supplementary examination 2008 (for candidates registered in 2006 or earlier) will be accepted without late fee till August 28, 2009.The examination forms will be available at counters of National Bank of Pakistan and United Bank Limited situated at the Silver Jubilee gate of the university. It has also been announced that students registered in 2006 or earlier, but who failed to clear their exams, are eligible to appear in the supplementary examinations 2008 to be held in 2009. Those students who failed one or more papers of 1st year, but have already passed all 2nd year papers, can also appear in 1st year papers.

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Schools should be registered at the earliest
Karachi: All unregistered private schools should be enrolled with the education department and the Sindh Private Institutions Directorate at earliest, All-Private Schools Management Association (Sindh) Central Chairman Syed Khalid Shah said on Wednesday. Shah expressed concern over the increasing number of unregistered schools in Sindh and said that his association was ready to help the management of schools if they were facing problems in the registration process. He asked parents to make sure at the time of admission that a school was registered with the authorities concerned.

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Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu Pakistan
Karachi: The deterioration of Urdu's status as the 'National Language' under the collective apathy of the government has finally driven Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu Pakistan (ATUP) to take the matter into their own hands. The organisation which was founded for the promotion of Urdu as a language, its culture and its literature, recently laid the foundation for its new building that will be built on an area of 5300 square feet.

The complex, situated in Gulistan-e-Jauhar in front of the University of Karachi (KU), will have a publication centre, research centre and an administration block in addition to a restaurant, a dining hall, hostel for national and international researchers, a library and a seminar hall to hold literary functions.

Currently the ATUP is located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal and has a research library that contains about 40,000 books, 30,000 journals and a large number of manuscripts that satiate the needs of researchers who come from Karachi and other cities. Bashir Ahmed Baloch, who is currently working for his PhD degree from Islamic University Bahawalpur, divides his time between the two cities for his research. He stated: "I am working on the thesis 'Feminism in The Urdu Poetry of Pakistani Women' and the ATUP library contains many invaluable books on the subject".

Jamiluddin Aali, noted Urdu poet, playwright and scholar has been associated with ATUP for a long time. According to him, Akhtar Hussain Raipuri, Qudratullah Shahab and Nurul Hasan Jaffery have all performed an invaluable service for the organisation.

"Usually the ATUP has financial troubles and it has been difficult to maintain our research and other activities. But we have strived hard to keep it (ATUP) afloat. After all it is a sacred trust for us that have been transferred from Maulana Shibli Nomani and Baba-e Urdu to us. We are holding lectures, seminars and remember the literary accomplishments of people like Prof Hasan Askari, Tabish Dehelvi, Shaukat Siddiqui, Salim Ahmed and Mumtaz Hasan", he said.

The editor of 'Qaumi Zaban', Dr Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, stated that from 1912 to 1961, the ATUP had published 300 books, and from 1961 till date, 350 more books have been printed.

"All the books have literary value and are meant to cater to the need of the Urdu diaspora in all the four corners of the world. But we are also trying to get the rightful place of Urdu in the country. Despite tall claims it seems that government is hesitant in adopting Urdu in its offices.

"Most countries adopted their national languages soon after their independence. Sadly that was not the case in Pakistan", he said.

However, he noted that the Federal government does provide a grant of 1.5 million rupees annually and the Sindh government and City District Government Karachi (CDGK) have also provided some aid. 'This is a silver lining on the otherwise overcast skies of our educational world", he jokes. The news

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