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By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi has conferred three civil awards on AKU faculty and alumni for their contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sindh and Balochistan. Dr Faisal Mahmood, an associate professor at AKU, and two graduates of AKUs postgraduate medical education programme, Dr…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Today humanity is straddling on the cross, at the crossroads of unfolding expanses of sciences and humanities, increasingly mutilating the very complexion of human being and ‘being human, the Houston-based Prof Justice Shahzado Shaikh remarked in his address on the World Speech Day. Today, some of…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Letters written to and from famous personalities to their contemporaries have often been most sought after ones and the publication of its collection in book form is welcomed warmly by the literary circles. Khutoot-e-Ghalib which is a collection of letters written by Mirza Asadullah Ghalib, arguably…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The National Library Association (NLA), during its Executive Committee meeting held in Karachi on March 13, has decided to organize felicitation ceremony for Asma Hassans book Mayar-e-Zindagi, later this month. After deliberations, the NLA has chosen to hold the ceremony in the last week of March…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The English Speaking Union of Pakistan (ESUP), headed by Aziz Memon, organized a hybrid meeting for the first time on March 11 as besides hosting a function at the Beach Luxury Hotel in Karachi, it also allowed participation via Zoom. It was also for the first…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Capacity building of its human resource has become a priority with Pakistan Railways these days. Under its approved Triple Helix Model Project, Pakistan Railway has gone into an understanding with Pak Austria Fachhochshule-Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology at Mang, Haripur, to impart training to its…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Society for Protection of Rights of Children (SPARC) is organizing a one-day workshop for media dialogue journalists and representatives on March 10. The seminar, expected to be attended by some 30 journalists mostly from Karachi as well as from Lahore and Islamabad, is being held…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The widely respected figure of Aziz Memon, an eminent entrepreneur and philanthropist, earned another singular honour as he has been elected as Vice President of the English Speaking Union (ESU) International for a term of next couple of years. According to the results of recent election,…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Lancet today published the latest Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition Progress, including three new papers that build upon findings from the previous 2008 and 2013 Series, which established an evidence-based global agenda for tackling undernutrition over the past decade. Faculty from Aga Khan University…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) A former General Manager of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has urged the Prime Minister to take action on maltreatment with the retired employees by the national airline. The national airline has not increased pensions of retired employees since long and the retired employees are not being…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Pakistan Library and Information Science Journal (PLISJ), a quarterly publication of the Library Promotion Bureau (LPB), arrived in time once more even though life and businesses were affected due to the second wave of coronavirus (COVID-19). The PLISJs April-June 2020 issue (Volume 52, Number 1)…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) As the coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions are being eased by the authorities in Pakistan, the National Library Association (NLA) has chalked out major events which it has planned to hold during the ongoing calendar year of 2021. A meeting of the core committee of the NLA was…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the Jinnah University for Women (JUW) in Karachi will be organizing an event by the name of JTECH at their campus, located at Nazimabad, on February 26 and 27 with its timings being 10 am to 2…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The newly appointed divisional superintendent of Karachi, Muhammad Hanif Gul, has pointed out that the completion of the KPT-Railways connectivity project would not only bring an economic boon for Pakistan Railways but a new era of progress and prosperity would also be ushered in. He made…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The newly appointed Divisional Superintendent Karachi Railway Division, Muhammad Hanif Gul has taken over the charge of Divisional Superintendent Karachi, replacing Arshad Salam Khattak who has been transferred to the Railways Headquarters in Lahore to take up his new assignment. Hanif Gul belongs to Commercial and…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) AKUs Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research (CRM) has won Rs 14.5 million grant to develop new, targeted therapies for a common form of blood cancer in adults, Philadelphia chromosome positive (Ph+) leukaemia. The chromosomal defect known as Philadelphia chromosome (Ph) is a characteristic…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Federal Minister for Railways, Muhammad Azam Khan Swati, visited the Qasim International Container Terminal (QICT), a major container loading and unloading facility, under the auspices of the Dubai Port World where he was given a detailed presentation there. The Dubai Port World, commonly called as…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Federal Minister for Railways, Muhammed Azam Khan Swati, has declared that annual freight revenue of Pakistan Railways will be doubled in few months from PKR 11 billion at present to PKR 22 billion. He made the pledge while talking to the media at the office…