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The Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) of Sindh Madressatul Islam University organized a workshop on Practices of Post Graduate Program Reviews in HEIs on June 16, 2023. Dr. Jawaid Akram, Director of QEC at the University of Karachi was the keynote speaker. The workshop aimed at to share the essential knowledge and insights with the faculty…
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah paid a surprise visit to the city to ensure the removal of billboards, neon signs, traffic sign boards, and other loose installations to avert damage or any untoward incidents during the cyclonic winds which are expected to lash the city on June 15. Mr. Shah without protocol, accompanied…
Chairman NDMA, Lt. General Inam Haider Malik presided National Coordination Conference to review the development of Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm (ESCS) BIPARJOY over Arabian Sea in PDMA Sindh Headquarter, Karachi. Representatives of relevant stakeholders including PMD, PDMAs Sindh & Balochistan, K-electric, PMSA HQ, DDMAs, Radio Pakistan and APP participated in session. PMD briefed that BIPARJOY…
The United States Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome visited the Aga Khan Universitys Stadium Road campus in Karachi. He was accompanied by U.S. Consul General in Karachi, Nicole Theriot. In his conversations with AKU leaders, Ambassador Blome applauded the decades-long collaboration between AKU, and the U.S. universities and development agencies, focusing on research, training and…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) A delegation of the National Library Association (NLA), headed by its President, Muzaffar Ali Shah, called on Prof Dr Farhat Hussain, the newly appointed chairperson of the University of Karachis Department of Library & Information Science at the campus on September 6. The NLA Advisor, Syed…
” Seldom pondered and realized that literacy is the root of character building. Difficult to believe real literacy teaches, nurtures and blossoms mutual patience, tolerance and fellow feeling towards mutual goodwill, cheers and happiness. ” — PJ. World Literacy Day September 8: “Literacy” understood as being able to read and write or to have…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The National Library Association (NLA) organized a reception in the honour of the California-based eminent scholar and orator, Ahsan Rafiq, in Karachi on August 29. The ceremony, attended by more than 25 representatives from different walks of life, was presided over by the NLA Advisor, Syed…
Pakistan refers to purity, promise and potential. Here in question is the commoner, the majority of the people of Pakistan. It is a matter of Gross National Happiness or quality of life of our people aslyrics Schumacher with “small is beautiful” notion. Indeed, the all-time brightest for the nation is world’s guiding light from…
IMAGINE kids waving national flags wowing for Pakistan town after town, city after city and province after province from Karachi to KPK! It echoes a resolve strongest than the steel and higher than the himalayas for the love and care, for sanctity and sacrifice for Pakistan. Come Independence Day August 14, Pakistan’s promising kids chant…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) government and the Aga Khan University (AKU) have signed a memorandum of understanding that will lead to the formal adoption and deployment of the universitys mobile health application and web portal, Hayat, into the regions routine health services. Hayat allows lady health workers,…
Even thinking or talking of any remedies how to grapple with the spiraling and uncontrollable price-hike is a very tough ask, what to talk of actually implementing fanciful ideas and solutions for the rocketing prices! While inflation is round-the-year phenomenon from man in the street to elitist or opulent gossiping about it as fashion, in…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Public health researchers are set to evaluate the feasibility of a faster way to detect new cases of COVID-19 in Karachi. Infectious disease epidemiologists from Aga Khan University, the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, and the World Health Organizations Pakistan Office will collaborate with Karachis District…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Upon the special directives of the Divisional Superintendent, Railways, Karachi, Muhammad Hanif Gul, a crackdown was carried out by the Divisional Commercial Officer (DCO), Nasir Nazeer, on vending stalls, restaurants and dining cars in trains. The DCO Railway Karachi took action against vending stalls and confiscated…
IMAGINE difference between leadership and statesmanship! Indeed it is worth-pondering by man in the street, men of letters and men at the helm of affairs. It is for being non-partisan and forpeace and harmony names of parties, politicians and statesmen need not be singled out but all is left for the judgement of readers…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Chief Executive Officer and Senior General Manager of Pakistan Railways, Nisar Ahmed Memon, and the Divisional Superintendent, Karachi, Muhammad Hanif Gul, held an important meeting with freight transporters to resolve pending issues. Business Advisor Planning, Farooq Haider Sheikh, Deputy DS Operations, and a few other…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The National Library Association (NLA), a forum of working librarians in Pakistan, has hailed the election of one of their advisors, Syed Khalid Mahmood, as President of Rotary Club of Karachi Darakhshan, a chapter of Rotary International, District 3271, comprising of Pakistans provinces of Sindh and…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Syed Khalid Mahmood, a famous journalist and author, has been elected as President of Rotary Club of Karachi Darakhshan, a chapter of Rotary International, District 3271, covering Pakistans provinces of Sindh and Balochistan. Alongwith other elected and nominated office-bearers of 13 zones, he was formally inducted…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Mehran Express between Karachi and Mirpurkhas was handed over to RASS Logistics, under public-private partnership, on July 5. On this occasion, a grand ceremony was held at Karachi City Railway Station. The chief guest of the function was Muhammad Hanif Gul, Divisional Superintendent, Karachi, while all…