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STUDENTS from the merged districts (erstwhile Fata) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ended their month-long sit-in outside Governor House in Lahore when the governor finally met them a day after students on hunger strike had to be hospitalised, and accepted their demands. This protest has highlighted the emerging post-merger governance gaps, as well as the need for the state to address the basic needs of citizens of the newly merged districts with urgency.
It goes without saying that students should not have to go through month-long sit-ins and hunger strikes to ask for scholarships from the government when they come from impoverished areas that have no universities. The seven merged districts of KP Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, Orakzai, Kurram, South Waziristan and North Waziristan with a combined population of over five million, do not have a single university. The Fata University established in 2013 is ironically loca
Award letters given to faculty members of Islamia Uni for research Wed 07th April 2021 | 04:30 PM
BAHAWALPUR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 7th Apr, 2021 ) :The Office of Research, Innovation, and Commercialization (ORIC) at the Islamia University of Bahawalpur organized a ceremony in the varsity s Baghdad-ul-Jadeed Campus for distributing award letters among the faculty members who secured the funding under ORIC-Research Grant Program-2020.
Vice-Chancellor Engr. Prof. Dr. Athar Mahboob gave away award letters. According to the spokesman of the university Shahzad Ahmad, the program envisages promoting indigenous and applied research; innovative product or idea development; and commercialization of the potential industry and end-user solutions. It further aimed at inspiring partnerships between the research community of the IUB and industry and end-users. A total of 147 research proposals and projects were submitted by the faculty members across all five campuses of the un
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FAISALABAD: Speakers at a seminar have demanded equal rights for the women at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad on the International Women’s Day.
The UAF faculty and students also took out a rally and arranged a seminar to mark the International Women’s Day. The rally was taken out from Admin Block and culminated at Iqbal Auditorium, which was led by UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Asif Tanveer. Addressing the participants, UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Asif Tanveer said that no society make the progress without active participation of women in the socio-economic development. He said that women could play a vital role in the development and overall increase in the GDP of the country. The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, said. Faculty of Food Nutrition and Homes Sciences Dean Prof Dr Masood Sadiq Butt said that unluckily in men’s dominant society, women were deprived of their rights. He said that the government was committed to p