Diploma in Associate Engineering certificates issue
Denial of DAE equivalence certificates
Lahore, Feb 12: The International Islamic University Islamabad has
petitioned the Lahore High Court against an earlier verdict in favour of the
Inter-Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC), which had refused to issue equivalence
certificates to around 2,000 students who earned Diploma in Associate
Engineering (DAE) from the university. A division bench comprising
Justice Asad Munir and Justice Khwaja Imtiaz Ahmed put off the hearing till
February 16 after a lawyer for IIUI and its constituent institute, Iqra Centre
for Technical Education, said that the IBCC first decided to issue the
equivalence certificates but later did not provide the documents. Making
secretaries of the education ministry and the IBCC respondents, the appellants
maintained that the university held the charter to issue degrees and diplomas,
and the IBCC was required to issue equivalence certificates to the DAE students
so that they could get admission for further studies or apply for job.
Earlier, Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh of the LHC had dismissed the
International Islamic University Islamabad petition when the IBCC maintained
that a meeting of the representatives of all examination boards decided not to
issue the equivalence certificates to the DAE holders as technical education did
not fall in their purview. The IBCC also contended that the university,
under the relevant laws, was authorised to offer postgraduate diplomas but not
post-matriculation diplomas. In the case of DAE courses, the university
should apply for equivalence certificates from the National Institute of Science
and Technical Education NISTE, which conducts examinations at all technical
institutes. The IIUI in the appeal however raised the question that the
IBCC while making its decision on issuance of certificates did not seek comments
either from the NISTE or the National Vocational and Technical Education
Commission. Dawn
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Issues of Pakistani medical students in Cuba
Lahore: The Punjab Assembly on Thursday demanded that the federal
government address the issue of Pakistani students facing serious problems
during their studies in medical colleges in Cuba on an urgent basis. The
provincial assembly adopted a resolution presented by opposition member Samina
Khawar Hayyat, saying that the Higher Education Commission (HEC) had sent 1,000
medical students of (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery-MBBS) for
studying in Cuba on special scholarships. Samina, through the resolution, said
the Pakistani students had completed the two out of the five years of their
scheduled study in that country (Cuba), "but now these students were facing some
serious problems". She said the Cuban government was not providing teaching
hospitals to the Pakistani student for further studies, "so there could be no
doubt that the students' careers might be adversely effected". Stopping the
routine House proceedings, the provincial assembly took up the resolution and
unanimously passed it. Daily times
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Surgery course through video
Lahore: The first national postgraduate course in surgery through video
conferencing facility has been stared under the auspices of College of
Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan. In a press release here on Thursday,
President CPSP Prof Zafar Ullah Chaudhry said that headquarters at Karachi and
other regional centres had been provided with latest facilities including video
conferencing and e-library, which would be helpful for trainee doctors across
the country. Regional Director Prof Khalid Masood Gondal said that the
course was being conducted at Karachi, Hyderabad, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar
simultaneously. It is being attended by over 200 trainee doctors, he
added. At Lahore Centre, Principal Fatima Jinnah Medical College Prof
Abdul Majeed Chaudhry, Dean of Surgery CPSP Prof Aamer Zaman Khan, President
Society of Surgeons of Pakistan Prof Imtiaz Rasool, Prof Mahmood Ayyaz, Prof
Javed Raza Gardezi, Prof Abdul Mannan Babar, Prof Abul Fazal Ali Khan, Prof
Khalid Javed Abid, Prof Kamran Khalid Khawaja, Prof Zafar Ali Chaudhry, Dr
Mansoor Qureshi, Dr Samina Khokhar, Dr Ghulam Mustafa Arain, Dr Afsar Ali
Bhatti, Dr Zahid Niaz, Dr Moeed Qureshi, Dr Shaukat Mirza, Dr Asghar Naqi and Dr
Muhammad Naeem talked about important issues of surgery. Prof Tariq
Mahmood Khan, Prof Abdul Sattar Memon, Brig Ahmad Mishwani and Prof Hamid Hassan
are imparting practical training to trainee doctors in Karachi, Hyderabad,
Peshawar and Islamabad respectively. Similarly, CPSP will provide equal
opportunities of standardised training to the trainee doctors of all disciplines
on regular basis.
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General Relativity, Gravitation
Lahore: Punjab University (PU) Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has
said knowledge is the most effective and useful weapon for leading an honourable
life and successfully facing any challenge in the modern world. He was
addressing an inaugural session of a three-day conference on "General Relativity
and Gravitation" on PU New Campus on Thursday. The PU VC further said
the varsity was desperately endeavouring to enhance the strength of highly
qualified and trained PhD faculty members to provide high quality knowledge of
latest scientific and technological subjects to the students to brighten up
their creative and research capabilities. For the first time in the PU history,
as many as 106 and 125 faculty members had completed their PhDs during the year
2008 and 2009 respectively, he added. Prof Dr Muhammad Sharif said the
main purpose of getting together the experts carrying out research on relativity
in Pakistan was to apprise the university students with the emerging
developments and to enable them to benefit from the same in their research
endeavours. Chairman Mathematics Department Prof Dr Shahid Siddiqi
remarked that the mathematics enjoyed fundamental importance in scientific and
technological research activities being conducted in various varsity
departments.
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MKRMS seminar at AIMC
Lahore: The Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman Memorial Society (MKRMS) in collaboration
with the Allama Iqbal Medical College/Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, will organise a
conference on 'Hospital Pharmacy Practices' at the AIMC auditorium at 2:30pm on
Friday (today). Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif will be the
chief guest on the occasion while AIMC/JHL Principal Prof Dr Javed Akram will
present opening remarks. The Society of Hospital Pharmacies of Pakistan
president, Sheikh Abdul Latif, Pharmacy Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi,
Manager, Syed Shamim Raza, Punjab AIDS Control Programme Project Director Dr Ali
Razzaque, Senior Clinical Pharmacist, JHL, Malik Irshad, Drug Controller Sheikh
Ansar, Assistant Professor, JHL, Dr Ali Jawa, Pharmacy Services of Shaukat
Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital Senior Manager Dr Tahir Aziz Mughal, Aga Khan
University Hospital, Karachi, Staff Pharmacist Sheikh Hassam Latif, Director
Clinical Pharmacist, AIMC, Komal Khalid Khan, Services Research and
Pharmaceuticals Plan Director Sohaib Hakeem, Punjab University Assistant
Professor Furqan Hashmi, Director Emergency, JHL, Assistant Prof Shaukat
Muttaqi, Aga Khan University Clinical Pharmacist Muhammad Hammad, Clinical
Pharmacist Saima Khurram, Punjab University Assistant Professor Amjad Hussain,
Senior Registrar Gynae-II, JHL, Dr Shazia Khalid, Associate Professor Director
Emergency, JHL, Dr Ghulam Mustafa and Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi,
Clinical Pharmacist Farah Gondal will speak on the occasion. MKRMS Chairman
Wasif Nagi will host the seminar while Kashan Haider, Ali Imran Inayat and
Shahzad Rauf will assist him.
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Turkish team visits UHS
Lahore: A four-member delegation, consisting of senior officials of Turkish Health
Department, visited the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Thursday. The
delegation, headed by Dr. Hassan Cagil, Director General Health Insurance,
Social Security Institution, Ankara, is on a 5-day visit to Lahore as a
follow-up of the visit of Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif to Turkey
last month. The delegation called on UHS Vice Chancellor Prof. Malik
Hussain Mubbashar and remained with him for well over an hour and discussed ways
and means of cooperation between medical institutions of the two countries. The news
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