Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Friday, August 23, 2019
Journalism Students Equipped as Peace Advocates; 3-Day Training Workshop Concludes In Islamabad
The
3-Day Professional Training Workshop for 31 of journalism studies Students from
Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
and other universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Islamabad concluded.
The workshop was
organized by Pakistan Peace Collective (PPC), a research & communication
project of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (M/O, I&B). It may
be recalled that project works on the peace-building campaigns to counter the
trends of violent extremism in Pakistan and simultaneously organised training
workshops on capacity building of media students for developing creative media
content.
Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan,
Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting, attended
the concluding session of the training workshop. While addressing the
participants, she emphasized upon the need for peace and harmony in society to
achieve a higher benchmark of progress and development. She advised the
participants to strive for achieving the higher objectives of life and play
their due role in this regard, when they enter into practical life. She later
distributed certificates among the participants of the workshop.
Mian Shabbir Anwer,
CEO PPC, while welcoming the chief guest lauded her keen interest in various
activities of the project (PPC). He also appreciated the support extended by
the faculties of the universities in selection and nomination of students for
the said training. He expressed confidence that the participants would utilize
the lessons learnt during the training workshop and contribute towards the
peace building efforts as responsible communicators particularly while covering
issues of violent extremism.
The training workshop
unwrapped two days earlier with a session on the Narratives, Impact &
Critical Analysis of Violent Extremism in Pakistan, delivered by Mr. Khursheed
Nadeem, a religious scholar. For the session based on Paigham e Pakistan, Dr
Aftab Ahmed Sangra delivered his views. Dr Aftab is Head of Department,
Comparative Studies of World Religions and Secretary, Council of Islamic
Research Institute.\
Paigham e Pakistan, he
said, is a social contract validated by all the political parties as well as
ulema and masha’ikh of all schools of thoughts. Students were also given a
chance to interact with the resilient and brave citizen of Pakistan; Mr. Inayat
Ullah Khan Incharge Bomb Disposal Unit D.I. Khan KPK Police; he narrated his own
real time experiences in combating terrorist activities in Pakistan.
Other sessions of
training workshop included Media’s role in Countering Violent Extremism (CVE),
the social and psychological impact of Conflict Reporting in Pakistan as well
as Critical Thinking: while Communicating on Conflict in Pakistan. The training
ended with course modules of Video Production Techniques included research
scripting, interview and camera techniques, grammar of sound, lightning and
editing. In the practical exercises, participants also produced media products
through smartphones based on the training themes.
Kamran Butt from
National College of Arts Lahore, Tahir Imran Mian from BBC, Usman Zafar and
Faizan Gul from PPC also delivered their respective lectures during the
training. The participants attending the training workshop belonged to various
universities from provinces of KPK, GB and federal capital.
The cities from
where from students participated included Dera Ismail Khan, Mardan, Malakand,
Peshawar, Hazara, Gilgit and Islamabad. Pakistan Peace Collective will soon be
organizing similar one-cluster training workshop next week for media students
from ten (10) more universities of Sindh and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
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Friday, August 9, 2019
An Honor for AWKUM: Dr. Nasrullah Shah is Selected for Fulbright Award
Dr. Nasrullah Shah, Associate Professor of
Chemistry, has been selected as a Principal Candidate for a Fulbright Scholar
Award for 2019-2020, for one year fellowship in the United States. Fulbright
Fellowship is the flagship and one of the most prestigious scholarship programs
in Pakistan as well as on international level. The selection is made by The
United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) and J. William
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB) U.S.
It is worth mentioning that Dr. Shah competed
with hundreds of faculty members from all over Pakistan, and in fact, the very
first Fulbright selectee from AWKUM since its establishment. Dr. Shah’s
selection under this program is indeed an honor for our university, since a
very small ratio of faculty members are selected under this program. Hence,
besides establishing good name and reputation of AWKUM, it will certainly bring
new skills to our research by establishing collaboration between our university
and one of the universities in the U.S.
Invitation to conference on Recent updates in Biotechnology (ICRUB-2019)
Department
of Biotechnology Abdul Wali Khan Univ Mardan Cordially invites you all to the
upcoming conference on Recent updates in Biotechnology (ICRUB-2019)
Date:
16-18 October 2019,
Venue:
Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad, Pakistan.
visit our website for further details.
https://icrub.weebly.com/
Dr. Tahir Usman, Assistant Professor, College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, has been Awarded a Project
Dr. Tahir Usman,
Assistant Professor, College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, AWKUM
has been awarded with a very competitive joint project of Pakistan Science
Foundation and Nature Sciences Foundation of China with title “Inter-generational
epigenetic transmission of staphyiococcusaureus mastitis and functional
validation of resistance genes in China & Pakistan dairy cattle”.
Only nine
projects are awarded all over Pakistan and just one from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
that is of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan”.
Visit the link on Sr# 08: "http://www.psf.gov.pk/
Visit the link on Sr# 08: "http://www.psf.gov.pk/
Thursday, August 8, 2019
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