Punjab University students won Nishan-e-Quaid award

PU students win Quaid award
Lahore: The Punjab University (PU) students have won 'Nishan-e-Quaid' award in the All Pakistan Inter-Universities Debate/Quiz and Singing Competition at the Quaid-e-Azam Qaumi Conference.

According to a press statement issued on Wednesday, the conference was organised by Baqai Medical University, Karachi, from August 11-16. Teams from 22 universities, including Karachi University, Sindh University, Jamshoro, Pakistan Naval Engineering College, Karachi, International Islamic University, Islamabad, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad, participated in the competitions.

PU Institute of Administrative Science (IAS) student Syed Fahas Kazmi and Mudassar Iqbal of Institute of Communication Studies (ICS) participated in English and Urdu speech contest respectively while Fahad Kazmi of IAS, Hammad Niazi of Institute of Geology and Toseef Sabih of ICS competed in Quiz Team competition.

Hasnain Javaid of Hailey College of Commerce took part in singing (Milli Naghma) competition.

PU Students' Deputy Advisor Muhammad Zubair Akram accompanied the PU team.

Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has congratulated the students and heads of their departments on this achievement.

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CSA team visits Punjab University
Lahore: A twelve memeber delegation of Civil Services Academy Lahore visited the Punjab University on Wednesday.

The visit was a part of the research titled "The Role of Private Institution Vs Govt Institutions in Providing Quality Education at University Level: Analysis and Recommendations."

PU Dean Faculty of Science Prof Dr Jamil Anwar Chaudhry presided over a special meeting on this occasion while other officials were also present on the occasion.

Dr Jamil Anwar gave a briefing on the status and requirements of higher education in Pakistan. He also threw light on the role of Higher Education Commission (HEC) with its plus points and some weak areas where more efforts and deliberations were required.

Registrar Prof Dr Naeem Khan gave a detailed briefing on PU four campuses, 13 faculties, 64 departments and their programmes of study. He said the PU every year conducted over 350 examinations with BA/BSc, the largest exam in which this year over 185,000 candidates appeared. Dr Ehsan Malik, Dr Shahida Hasnain and Dr Zafar Iqbal Jadoon also spoke. The news

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Police nab MUET student for keeping pistol
Hyderabad: A student of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET) was arrested by Jamshoro police on Wednesday for keeping an unlicensed pistol, while a day earlier an ex-student of the Sindh University was also nabbed on the same charge.

Rameez Aftab s/o Abdul Aleem Ansari, an SPSF activist and a student of Meteorology Department was summoned to the office where police were also present. Police searched him and on remaining unsatisfied asked for searching the classroom.

Rameez who had left his bag with one of his class fellows Rohit sent an SMS message to hide the weapon which was intercepted by police, said university sources. Police recovered a pistol from the bag and took both, Rameez and Rohit to police station. Later, Rohit was released but Rameez was booked under section 13-D of the arms Ordinance.

DEMO: A large number of MUET students belonging to the Jeay Sindh Students Federation staged a demonstration outside the press club on Wednesday in protest against the delay in arresting killers of their mate, Asadullah Abbasi.

Earlier, they staged a rally from Gul Centre to press club carrying banners and placards.

JSSF leaders Majid Hyderi, Mushtaq Jamali, Hyder Shah and others alleged that since the murderers of Asadullah Abbasi enjoyed the support and patronage of the government, therefore, they were not being arrested by police.

The JSSF leaders accused Jamshoro DPO Farrukh Bashir of supporting killers.

They said that miscreants had destroyed the peace of campus but nobody was interested in taking action against them. They appealed to writers, intellectuals and leaders of public opinion to take notice of the hooliganism that has become the order of the day at Jamshoro campus. Dawn

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Lahore Cambridge results Distinction
Lahore: Haider Ali of the Cathedral School, Hall Road, Lahore, got 9 A's in O Level Examination, 2009. The other students who got distinction are; Mariam A Sohail 8 A's, Usman Khurshid 8 A's, Kamran Hussain 7 A's, Hassan Javed 7 A's, Amna Rana 7 A's, Faisal Ahmed 6 A's, Arslan Zahid 6 A's and Aitzaz Arif 5 A's.

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Workshop to train scholars in planning projects
Lahore: A two day workshop "Managing Research Projects-the Effective Ways", organised by the Directorate of Research of the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Lahore in collaboration with the Institute of Research Promotion (IRP), started on Wednesday.

UVAS Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Nawaz inaugurated the workshop while Director Research UVAS Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad, faculty members and IRP representatives were also present.

Speaking on the occasion, the VC said the workshop had been arranged to train research scholars as to how to manage research projects in an effective way.

He said the UVAS was equally focusing on research and its research output had increased manifolds in recent years. He said the UVAS had developed linkages with the industry and its faculty members were actively involved in research projects which were field oriented and demand-driven.

Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad said the objective of the workshop was to train scholars in planning, executing, monitoring and evaluating research projects mainly funded by public sector organisations of Pakistan. He said the workshop facilitators were from funding agencies to train the participants first to how win research grants and then how to execute the projects successfully.

Later in technical sessions, Punjab Agriculture Research Board (PARB) Lahore Member (Planning and Programming) Dr Ahmed Salim Akhtar spoke about the various aspects/phases of projecting planning, its cycle, legal framework approach, priority settings and analysis, self assessment of project implementation, probability analysis of success and literature review.

Pakistan Science Foundation Chief Scientific Officer Prof Dr Manzoor H Soomro talked about the "commercialisation of research & development" with special reference to the Pakistan Science Foundation experiences. While PARB Member (Monitoring and Evaluation) Dr Abdul Rashid spoke about the proposal writing, its various phases like actions before starting the proposal writing, how to write a good proposal, actions after proposal writing, follow-up of proposal with the donor agency, project budgeting and monitoring and evaluation. Every session was followed by question and answer sessions.

On the second day of the workshop on Thursday (today), research experts from different universities and organisations will talk on the subject. Faculty members and researchers from various universities and public and private organisations are participating in the workshop. The news

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