MARDAN: The Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) has been ranked 150th by the Times Higher Education Emerging Economies University Rankings 2021.
“The Times Higher Education (THE) on Wednesday announced the result of its Emerging Economies ranking, which includes institutions in countries or regions classified by the London Stock Exchange’s FTSE Group as ‘advanced emerging’, ‘secondary emerging’ or ‘frontier’,” Vice-Chancellor Prof Zahoorul Haq told Dawn.
He said the ranking demonstrated the growing strength of secondary emerging countries, heavily driven by Pakistan, China, and Russia, adding a record 606 universities were ranked this year from 48 countries and regions, 14 per cent more than in 2020 (533), as 86 universities, including AWKUM, made their debut.
PAC discusses fiscal anomalies in AWKUM
National
March 11, 2021
PESHAWAR: Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Wednesday asked the public sector universities to demonstrate extra care in financial matters as public funds are national trust with them.
The observations were made during the meeting of the PAC on disposal of audit paras on certain fiscal anomalies in Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM), said an official handout.
The meeting on Higher Education Department (HED) was chaired by Member Provincial Assembly Muhammad Idrees at KP Assembly Secretariat in Peshawar.
Besides MPAs Inayatullah, Babar Saleem Swati, senior officials of the Higher Education, Law, Finance, Accounts & Audit Departments and KP Assembly as well as AWKUM attended the meeting.
Mardan varsity wins honour with ranking
Peshawar
March 11, 2021
PESHAWAR: Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) has been ranked 150th by Times Higher Education Emerging Economies Universities Rankings 2021.
A press release said the Times Higher Education (THE) on Wednesday announced the result of its Emerging Economies ranking, which includes institutions in countries or regions classified by the London Stock Exchange’s FTSE Group as “advanced emerging”, “secondary emerging” or “frontier”.
The ranking demonstrates the growing strength of secondary emerging countries, heavily driven by Pakistan, China, and Russia.
A record 606 universities ranked this year from 48 countries and regions, 14 per cent more than in 2020 (533), as 86 universities, including AWKUM, made their debut.
In Pakistan, a college teacher was sentenced to ten years in jail for a supposed blasphemous lecture presented in class on January 8, 2021. According to Aljazeera news, judge Raja Jawad announced the decision based on the charges filed in 2017. Another anti-terrorism court sentenced three to death for social media posts deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad under Pakistan’s blasphemy law.
In June 2020, Tahar Ahmed Naseem was shot in a courtroom hearing in Peshawar for claiming he was the Prophet, Muhammad. Pakistani Blasphemy laws are known as some of the harshest blasphemy laws in the world; The Diplomat Post going as far as to label them, “bloodthirsty laws.” As shown, these laws propagate violence, discrimination, and unfortunately used as a malicious tool, to target minority groups in Pakistan, and further personal vendettas, while also not being properly enforced.