NWFP UET entry test for admission

8,851 take UET entry test
Peshawar, Aug 10: As many as 8,851 candidates appeared in the entry test for admission to the NWFP University of Engineering and Technology (UET) held at Peshawar and Abbottabad centres simultaneously on Sunday.

Organised by Educational Testing and Evaluating Agency (ETEA), the test was held at Col Sher Khan Stadium in Peshawar and Ayub Medical College Abbottabad. The results of test will be announced today.

A total 7,534 candidates, including 7,001 male and 248 female, appeared for the engineering disciplines and 256 male and 29 female for computer science group in Peshawar while 1,317 candidates, including 1,140 male and 132 female for engineering group and 35 male and 10 female for computer science in Abbottabad.

UET Vice-chancellor Syed Imtiaz Hussain Gilani, who was present on the occasion, expressed his satisfaction at the arrangement made for the entry test. The university will arrange an orientation week for the new entrants as well. He further said this time they had started self-finance scheme in two disciplines (electrical and mechanical engineering) on the Peshawar Campus where 40 candidates in each discipline would be admitted.

Dr Abdur Rauf Jamil, Executive Director ETEA, nine Subject Specialists, 400 invigilators from education department (primary and senior teachers), 45 test managers, staff of Peshawar University and Islamia College, and Peshawar Police, were present on the occasion.

However, the Directorate of Admissions NWFP UET, including Prof Dr Khan Gul Jadoon, Convener for Admissions and Ms Rubina Tahir, Deputy Director, Admissions, managed the admission process. Prof Dr M Mansoor, Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Imtiaz Ahmad Khan, Registrar and other senior faculty members from all the departments were also present.

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School topper goes missing after joining Swat Taliban
Mingora: Students and teachers at the Government Higher Secondary School Barikot were missing their two brilliant colleagues as the school reopened on August 1 following the clearing of the area from militants and the return of the displaced people.

The first thing both teachers and students did was to offer fateha (prayer) for their colleague and teacher Fazal Jabbar, who lost his life along with his other relative when a mortar shell landed on his house in Naway Killay in Barikot area on May 11.

"Unlike rest of the school buildings, ours is safe but the killing of our kind and devoted colleague pierced our hearts," said Ibrahim, principal of the school while recalling Fazal Jabbar, who was serving as Certified Teacher (CT).

The second shocking revelation for the teachers and students was that Yousaf Khan, a student of the school, who got top position in the matriculation examination 2007, was missing.

The board of honour displayed on a wall just behind the main gate of the school still bears the name of Yousaf Khan, but he is missing now and is feared dead as he had joined the ranks of Taliban about a year ago.

"He was such a brilliant student ... I can't believe he can join the militants because he has no such inclination during his school days," said the school principal.

Taliban had become role model for students and young men in almost all areas of Swat during their heydays. Youth, many of them students like Yousaf Khan, feeling a charm in holding guns and stopping and searching people on the roads, recalled Muhammad Saleh, a physical education teacher.

Residents say many among the militants in the area were teenagers. They developed liking for the Taliban because of their apparent pomp and show and later on some of them joined their ranks. "Many of those young men, some of them students, are now missing," said another teacher.

Earlier, the security forces in Swat had claimed arresting several teenaged boys, who were picked by the militants to be trained and used as suicide bombers. The militants prefer teenagers as they can be easily influenced and molded as suicide bombers and foot soldiers.

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Result of civil judges' exams announced
Peshawar: The NWFP Public Service Commission has announced the names of successful candidates in the written test of the competitive examination conducted in March 2009 for the posts of civil judges-cum-judicial magistrates.

A total of 143 candidates, out of 1,363 who appeared in the written examination, have qualified.

The successful candidates shall be called for viva-vice test in due course individually through registered posts.

The commission said through a handout that DMCs of the failed candidates would be issued after the 20th of this month. The roll numbers of the successful candidates are: (Female specific quota): 12, 55, 58, 92, 105, 113, 117, 138, 152, 158, 159, 162, 165, 166, 170, 175, 178, 184, 206, 213, 214, 218, 236, 238, and 293, while those included in general quota are:

39, 51, 159, 179, 181, 183, 187, 192, 225, 254, 286, 304, 311, 332, 335, 363, 376, 400, 407, 410, 417, 421, 441, 463, 465, 493, 517, 544, 547, 608, 656, 663, 754, 761, 763, 769, 802, 808, 883, 888, 903, 909, 940, 951, 963, 969, 972, 976, 979, 985, 1021, 1075, 1079, 1088, 1104, 1116, 1130, 1138, 1171, 1226, 1227, 1251, 1257, 1279, 1282, 1287, 1384, 1387, 1398, 1412, 1424, 1434, 1435, 1470, 1474, 1482, 1489, 1493, 1501, 1557, 1561, 1566, 1594, 1666, 1675, 1690, 1692, 1698, 1699, 1718, 1767, 1831, 1853, 1854, 1856, 1857, 1891, 1893, 1911, 1914, 1976, 1977, 1981, 2012, 2078, 2100, 2102, 2109, 2113, 2123, 2126, 2128, 2145, 2149, 2157, 2170, 2171 and, 2245.

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Urdu booklet on Persian grammar published
Peshawar: 'Yusra Nama' - a concise publication on Persian grammar - authored by Syed Ghayyur Hussain, a noted academician, writer and researcher, has hit the stalls and is available for those fond of learning the language.

The 36-page booklet with easily understandable words and grammatical rules has been dedicated to a former director general of the Iranian Culture Centre at Peshawar, Aghae-Mohsin Abu Talbi, who, the writer says contributed a lot for the promotion of Persian language during his four-year stay in Peshawar from 1992 to 1996.

Talbi, who exhibited his great love for Pakistan languages while serving in Peshawar and encouraged and supported a number of Pashto and Hindko writers, is now heading the Cultural Wing of the local government of Tehran.

Syed Ghayyur Hussain, hailing from Ustarzai, Kohat, has been teaching Persian for the last two decades at the University of Peshawar and Cultural Centre of Islamic Republic of Iran. He has to his credit a number of publications and research-based papers. The researcher has authored a book that has been included in the MA and M Phil course of study. Another of his book "Pakistan Ki Qaumi Aur Ilaqai Zubano Per Farsi Ka Asar" highlights the impact of Persian on Pakistani languages.

He is working on three more books - 'Farsi Asbaq', 'Farsi Ashaar' and 'Farsi Boliay' that might be published soon.

In the preface to the 'Yusra Nama', Professor Dr Irshad Shakir Awan of Urdu Department of Qartaba University Peshawar has lauded the contribution from Ghayyur towards the promotion of Persian language and literature and said the book would make Persian learning easier. "Though there are number of good books on Persian grammar, yet the 'Yusra Nama' will be more beneficial for those trying to learn the language in the shortest possible time," he said.

Professor Dr Riaz Majeed of the Linguistic Department of the university has welcomed the booklet as a rare contribution and termed it an effort to make Persian language learning easier and bring Urdu and Persian closer. Besides grammar rules, the booklet has three sets of Persian words translated into Urdu. Coming out of printing press on July 31 and available at a nominal price of Rs30 on all bookstalls in the market, the book would contribute towards promotion of Persian language. The news

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