Gomal University BA, BSc result 2010

Gomal varsity announces BA/BSc result
Dera Ismail Khan, Oct 05: Gomal University announced the results of BA/BSc annual examination on Sunday. According to a notification, in Arts Group Faiza Ali, roll number 2346, of Government Girls Degree College No 1, Dera Ismail Khan, won first position by securing 397 marks out of 550 while Nadia Burki of the same college got second position with 392 marks.Palwasha Fida of Government Girls Degree College No-2, Dera Ismail Khan obtained first position by ob-taining 436 marks while Nayab Dil stood second with 435 marks. A total of 10,000 candidates had appeared in the examination and 63.82 were declared successful. The news

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Future of hundreds of students at stake
Islamabad: Due to the nasty politicking between the high ups of the Ministry of Information Technology the future of hundreds of students is at stake studying on the Ministry's scholarships and dozens of research projects are at standstill.

Just because the Board of Directors of the Information and Communication Technologies Research and Development (ICT R&D) Fund could not meet, the funds could not be released to the students studying on scholarships in various local universities and for research projects initiated by the fund.

The Ministry has also failed to appoint a permanent Chief Executive Officer of the ICT R&D Fund, and acting CEO Mushtaq Bhatti has been looking the affairs of the fund.

The Ministry had established National ICT R&D Fund in September 2006 aimed at transforming Pakistan's economy into a knowledge-based economy. At present, the Fund has been supporting about 1,300 students mostly from rural and underprivileged areas in terms of scholarships' award for four-year BS programme in IT related disciplines. The Fund had also enabled initiation of about 40 research sponsoring development projects for PhD students.

But due to the non-payment of funds all the projects have come to a halt and all the investment made would go down the drain if the payments were not made. It has been learnt that most of the students belong to very poor families and also support their families with the stipend besides continuing their studies.

The students have been studying in different public and private universities such as FAST University, UET Lahore, Lahore College for Women University, National University of Science and Technology (NUST) etc.

The fund has been established taking a minimal percentage of profits from telecom service provider companies but the amount could not be disbursed among the respective universities and for the research projects due to the internal politics between the high officials of the ministry and millions of rupees have been lying in the bank uselessly for several months.

Naguibullah Malik, Secretary IT and Telecom, said the funds could not be released because the meeting of Board of Directors of the fund could not be held for the last six months. Now on 20th of this month the meeting is going to be held so all the issues would be resolved. He said the universities were asked to continue the studies of the students and the funds would be reimbursed later on.

When this scribe tried to contact Adviser to the Prime Minister on Information Technology, Sardar Latif Khosa, his Principal Staff Officer replied Khosa has not been interfering as he can only recommend things. The Prime Minister is Minister In-charge of the ministry and secretary has been handling the affairs and directly reporting to the PM. The nation

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Students lock BMC offices in protest
Bannu: Students of the Bannu Medical College (BMC) have been protesting since May 13 in Bannu, Peshawar and Islamabad to draw the attention of the government towards their problems.

The college was established in 2006 by the former chief minister Akram Khan Durrani. It is the third biggest public sector medical college in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The students enrolled were selected by a joint admission committee.

However, the college has been facing problems from the start. The college lacked hostels and other infrastructure while medical equipment was scarce in the laboratories. The students had hoped things would get better but that did not happen.

"It is going from bad to worse," said a 4th year MBBS student who did not want to be named, adding, the students had contacted all politicians to get their problems solved, but in vain. "When we met the provincial minister for health, he said half of the people of the country had come on roads protesting for acceptance of their demands and we the students should do the same," another student said.

The students also met the secretary for health, speaker and deputy speaker of the provincial assembly, chief minister, chairman of the standing committee of health in the Senate and officials of the health department but all the meetings proved unfruitful, Muzammil Shah, a second year MBBS student said. "We are left with no other option but to appeal to the chief justice to take notice of the problems being faced by the students as the future of 600 medical students is at stake," said students Mehtab Anwar and Jamal Shahid. The news

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Over 1,000 take entry test for BS at QAU
Islamabad: The Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad has received a tremendous response for its BS four-year program as hundreds of students appeared in entry tests from across the country.

The entry test was organised by QAU administration in university gymnasium on Friday. It is the first time that QAU has started BS level programs to cater the need of higher education in the country.

For eighty seats of four-year BBA program, almost 850 candidates appeared in entry test while for 4 year BS Economics, almost 550 applicants appeared in entry test for 80 seats.

Recently, the Department of Administrative Sciences of QAU has been transformed into Quaid-i-Azam School of Management Sciences (QAS-MS). This department has been serving the graduate market for over 35 years. The department has now announced admissions in BBA 4 year's program.

Likewise, after more than four decades of service and nation building, the Department of Economics of Quaid-i-Azam University has been upgraded to the level School of Economics and has announced its BS Economics 4 year's program. The BS economics degree is designed to provide a broad spectrum that reflects the interdisciplinary nature.

The QAU, Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Masoom Yasinzai visited the test centre and expressed satisfaction over the arrangements. He said that the university would steadily expand its academic programs through bringing in additional specialised subjects and introducing new disciplines without making any kind of compromise over quality. The nation