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SSC IX, X annual practical exams from 6th
Karachi, June 02: The SSC Class IX and X Annual Practical Examinations 2009 will be held with effect from June 6. This was announced in a statement released from the office of controller of examinations, Board of Secondary Education Karachi, on Monday. Practical will be held for Science and General Groups of Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Computer Studies, Food and Nutrition, Clothing and Textile as well as Braille. The practical programme has already been mailed to the candidates at their residential addresses. In case of non-receipt of the programme, the candidates should contact the board office, the statement said. app

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Results of test for PST post
Hyderabad: The Sindh University Testing Centre announced the results of the test conducted on May 19 for the post of primary school teachers (PSTs).

The results announced are of female candidates of Jacobabad and both male and female of Ghotki district.

The results of both male and female candidates of Benazirabad conducted on May 24 for the post of PSTs were also notified.

Candidates are advised to visit university website www.usindh.edu.pk/sutc for their results. Dawn

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Admissions to KU Evening Programme began
Karachi: The Directorate of Evening Programme of the University of Karachi (KU) is initiating admissions process 2009-10 from June 2 (today) for MS two-year Masters and Diploma Programmes.

Minimum qualification for applying for the courses is a second division graduate degree. Admission forms will be issued and received up till June 10 at the United Bank Limited (UBL) Silver Jubilee Gate while the list of successful candidates will be announced on June 22. The claim forms will be issued from June 22 to June 24 and will be displayed at the Evening Programme Directorate on June 26. The fees will be collected from June 24 to 26 at the Directorate of Evening Programme. The classes will start on July 1.

Director of Evening Programme, Prof. Dr M. Abuzar Wajidi is confident that these courses will help professionals enhance their skills and qualification. "The fee structure is quite affordable and more subsidised than any other university. Since its inception in May 1995, the Evening Programme has so far produced approximately 16,000 graduates and Masters who are engaged in respectable and responsible positions," he informed. The News

KU nutritious ration bar can help IDPs
Karachi: Food Emergency Ration (FER) bars, made by Karachi University (KU), can serve 2 million Internally Displaced People (IDPs) of Swat and other areas.

The government of Pakistan in collaboration with international community is spending millions of rupees to provide IDPs with food and nutrition.

On contrary to that FER bar, containing about 520 energy (cal), can be made and served on considerably low budget. The Department of Food Science and Technology, KU, has formulated the highly nutritious FER bars under the supervision of Associate Prof Dr Abid Hussnain for refugees, especially people affected by war and natural disasters.

Associate Prof Dr Abid Hussnain on Monday said that there was no sophisticated technology involved in formulation of such highly nutritious food emergency ration, as local companies could formulate such bars by using simple and cheap methods and indigenous resources. He said that FER product was specially formulated to cope with emergency rising after wars, natural disasters and famines in context of providing food to affected people. "The said useful food product, comprising on wheat, rice, soybeans, fats and sugar, was formulated by the department's student, Ijlal Hussain, on account of MPhil studies."

As per the report, published recently in The Nation, military operation has driven more than 1.9m people from their homes while some 500,000 were forced to flee the fighting in the area in 2008. Only 10pc of the total 2.4m IDPs are living in camps, with the rest seeking shelter with relatives or in rented accommodations and public buildings like schools.

Dr Hussnain said, "The refugees are nowadays become a permanent feature of the world population. Refugees usually need shelter and protection and huge supplies of food to meet their nutritional needs.

The FER is quite suitable for IDPs as it contains all nutritional requirements, including calcium, protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrition. Any person can consume four bars with minimum 2,100 calories. Pregnant/lactating women and children can consume more or fewer FER bars to meet their specified calories needs." He further said that emergency ration was small and contains concentrated foods to provide at least required energy per day. Emergency rations, also known as ration cubes, combat rations, or field rations, are food supplements typically used when food slots, conventional food supplies are unavailable. The emergency ration, popularly known as the "Armour", is a packaged unit of concentrated food carried by the refugees, displaced persons, asylum seekers, uprooted population and soldiers.

Dr Hussnain said that Pakistan was an agricultural country and it could play leading role in supplying emergency rations to international aid giving agencies and NGOs.

However, the country with tremendous quantities of cereal and pulses can produce huge quantity of emergency ration not only to serve but also earn foreign exchange by producing FER bars to international aid organisations, NGOs and other countries. This is for the first time in the history of Pakistan that any research institution has developed emergency ration, he said. The Nation

KU announcement
The dean of the faculty of science of the University of Karachi has announced that all MPhil/PhD students of the faculty of science who have been enrolled in the research methodology (ASR-702) course are directed to submit the examinations fee of Rs200 by Tuesday (June 2) without late fee. Ppi

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MAJU summer semester
Karachi: The summer semester at the Muhammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU) has commenced. An official of the institution said on Monday that about 2,000 students have enrolled and as many as 200 courses would be taught during the summer semester. App

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27 students acquitted
Karachi: The Additional District and Sessions Judge South acquitted 27 students, including 21 belonging to the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) and others belonging to the Punjabi Students Association (PSA). They had been arrested by the police after they allegedly clashed at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre's (JPMC) School of Physiotherapy in 2007. In the clash, Farhan Butt, a first-year student of the JPMC School of Physiotherapy was killed, while three PSA workers were injured. The Saddar police had registered an FIR against them. Defence Counsel Sarwar Mohammed Khan said that the prosecution failed to produce any evidence against the defendants. The court acquitted them on Monday. The News

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PkSF alleges harassment at SU
Karachi: Pakhtoon Students Federation (PkSF) Sindh has issued a list of students who could not appear in their final term exams at Sindh University (SU) as they received threats from nationalist groups in the university.

According to the list issued by the PkSF, 97 students of different departments missed their examinations due to security concerns. "Activists of nationalist parties are continuously threatening our students and on some occasions attacked them in Sindh University, Jamshoro," said PkSF Chairman Sher Muhammad Afridi while addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club.

He alleged that the nationalist groups were incited by an ethnic group to torture Pakhtoons. According to Afridi, on May 27, Pakhtoon students received a threat from student activists of nationalist parties asking them to leave the university hostels within 48 hours. "We tried to negotiate with them as well as the university, Rangers and police officials but we did not get any positive response," he lamented, saying that Pakhtoon students had to leave their exams and escape in order to save their lives.

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Industrial and technical institute inaugurated
Karachi: The Memon Industrial and Technical Institute (MITI), which has been set up by the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) in Korangi under public-private partnership with World Memon Organisation (WMO), was inaugurated on Sunday night.

City Nazim Mustafa Kamal on the occasion said that the CDGK has chosen Korangi Town for the MITI because it is located in the vicinity of Pakistan's largest industrial zone and those who would get trained in MITI would have a direct access to it. The technically trained youth would be able to earn upto Rs 20,000 per month after completing their training for just 24 weeks. The MITI would impart technical education to more than 4,000 uneducated and unskilled youths annually in 30 different trades. The MITI would only charge Rs 500 from each student while the actual expenses would be around Rs 2,100 per month, claimed Kamal adding that the MITI would also offer training girls for technical courses shortly.

The city nazim urged the business community to come forward to establish more technical institutions across Sindh and the country.

Kamal also vowed that the CDGK has committed to provide the WMO with land in every town so that every town should have its own MITI for the welfare of needy youths. Providing free or extremely low-cost technical training to our youths would help curb the crime, remarked Kamal.

Kamal regretted that those who wanted to establish public welfare projects and they only needed plot of land were missing favour from the authorities while the land mafia knows no law and was blatantly occupying precious land in the city, said Kamal.

WMO President Haji Abdul Razzaq Yaqoob paid tribute to Kamal for completing mega projects in city with commendable speed. He also said that the Memon community is ready to cooperate and help in the development and progress of the city. Amin Chapal, HM Shahzad, Shoaib Ismail, Pir Muhammad Kalia and others also addressed the ceremony.

Abubakar Cassim, Aqeel Karim Dhedhi, Ashraf Machiyara, Ahmed Chinoy, MNA Abdul Rasheed Godel, MNA Asif Husnain, Korangi Town Nazim Arif Khan also attended the occasion. Daily Times

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