ISLAMABAD: Vice Chancellor of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur Athar Mehboob visited demonstration of maize-soybean strip intercropping technology at Khairpur Tamewali, Bahawalpur.According to.
Pakistan’s foremost watercolour painter, Qudsia Azmat Nisar, passed away in Islamabad on April 27, 2021.
She had been ill for several months at her Karachi residence when, in mid-March 2021, her brother Zia Siddiqui moved her to his residence in the capital city. Despite receiving medical care, her condition deteriorated. She was laid to rest on April 28, 2021.
In 2018, she received the President’s Pride of Performance Award for her contribution to both painting and art education. Earlier, she had received several international and national awards for excellence.
Over a span of about 45 years, Nisar made a pioneering and outstanding contribution to the country’s cultural treasures. She can be rightly credited with the virtual introduction of non-figurative modern abstract art in the country, by using the medium of watercolour and drawing. It is difficult to identify any other artist in Pakistan who used this sensitive, distinctive and difficult medium so innovatively, cre
Eminent painter Qudsia Nisar remembered
Karachi
May 6, 2021
The recipient of the Presidential Pride of Performance Award in 2018, Qudsia Nisar, who was a preeminent painter of Pakistan, passed away in Islamabad on 27th April 2021, according to a statement issued by the media manager, CMC (Pvt.) Ltd.
She had been suffering from various ailments for the past several months in Karachi until her brother and other family members moved her to Islamabad in March 2021, where, despite medical care, her condition worsened.
As a highly prolific painter, Qudsia Nisar was widely recognised by art critics as being the pioneer of using water colour in Pakistan to express abstract visions of modern art without using conventional figures and forms.
Daily Times
April 27, 2021
Establishment of Pakistan National Research Centre of Intercropping (NRCI) at the Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB) was officially approved, according to a report published by China Economic Net (CEN).
This will be the first-ever national research centre regarding intercropping technologies in Pakistan. “Before this, there was no national research centre dedicated to intercropping in Pakistan. The centre firstly will be affiliated with the key laboratory of China’s Ministry of Agriculture undertaken by Sichuan Agricultural University (SAU), which is well-known throughout the world for intercropping research especially in maize and soybean.
Pakistan wants to increase its soybean production desperately,” Muhammad Ali Raza, post-doc from Sichuan Agricultural University told CEN. It’s been learned that 25 acres of land has been allocated to the centre. “Chinese scientists are well experienced in intercropping technology. We will provide the l