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The Institute of Business Studies & Leadership (IBL), Abdul
Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) in collaboration with Business Incubation
Center AWKUM organized “Marketing Gala” on December 7-8, 2022. The opening
ceremony was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Saeed Islam (Director Academics AWKUM)
and Mr. Zahir Shah Khan (President Mardan Chamber Commerce of Industry).
The main purpose of the event was to provide practical platform to
the students to market their product and services in front of huge audience. The
students were given assignments to develop a marketing plan for the product and
services they wanted to offer. The students were divided in various groups for
displaying their products in the stalls. The assignment included marketing
research, strategy, marketing mix and sales management.
Local brands including BIC startups also placed their stalls for providing healthy competition to the students. 8 startups of BIC AWKUM participated in the event and displayed their products and services to the general public. The delegation from Mardan Chamber of Commerce & industry visited the stalls and appreciated the efforts of Dr. Mohammad Jehangir (Director IBL), Mr. Shah Hussain Awan and Kashif Zaman (Chief Organizers) for organizing such a wonderful event for students. Such kind of events delivers a learning experience in a challenging environment for the students.
Mr. Hanif Ur Rahman defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Offshore
Outsourcing Decision of Application Maintenance: A Study from Client-Vendor
Perspective” on December 16, 2022 at Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali
Khan University Mardan, Pakistan.
He conducted his research under the supervision of Assistant
Professor Dr. Mushtaq Raza and Dr. Palwasha Afsar. The thesis report was
evaluated from Spain, Poland and University of Peshawar by Prof. Dr. Iván
García-Magariño, Prof. Dr. Robertas Damaševičius and Prof. Dr. Sara Shahzad
respectively. While his external examiners were Prof. Dr. Zahoor Jan Department
of Computer Science, Islamia College Peshawar and Prof. Dr. Sara Shahzad Department
of Computer Science, University of Peshawar.
Dr. Hanif Ur Rahman published five articles in International
reputed journals having top ranking; W category in HJRS by HEC.
United States Embassy and United States Education Foundation in
Pakistan (USEFP) encouraged Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) to expand
Academic Collaboration with United States Universities
Catherine Fischer, Deputy Cultural Attache, US Embassy Islamabad
expressed her views in closing ceremony in Islamabad under U.S. - Pakistan
University Partnership Grants Program (UPGP), That faculty from AWKUM highly
contributed to expand American studies under UPGP in the university. She shared
that US Embassy and UEFP looks forward to future collaboration with AWKUM.
In closing remarks, Mr.
Shahram Niazi Program Officer, UPGP, USEFP shared his views that it was a good
experience with faculty from AWKUM to introduce and expand American studies in
the university. He expressed his views that USEFP will facilitate and fund
faculty and students from AWKUM to get education from US universities under
different scholarships programs.
Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa, Head of UPGP, QAU Islamabad pay thanks to Prof.
Dr. Zahoor Up Haq Vice Chancellor AWKUM to nominate the most relevant and
committed faculty to contribute to UPGP. Dr. Hussain Ali Head of Sociology
Department, Dr. Abdul Shakoor Head of International relations, Mr. Azmat Ali
khan Assistant Professor of Political Science, Mr. Sanan Ahmad Lecturer PCA
participated in the program. At the end of ceremony excellency certificate and
shields were presented to Dr. Hussain Ali and Mr. Azmat Ali Khan.
Beholding our duty in the recent destructive flood, the Provost
office Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan tackled providing urgent care to the
victims of the flood. A drive was initiated by Vice-chancellor Prof. Dr, Zahoor
Ul Haq and supervised by the Director Administration, Provost office, Abdul
Wali Khan University Mardan.
In these activities, prominent efforts were done by Syed Najm ul
Hasan Gelani. a student from the IBL - President of the Peace Building and
Conflict Resolution Society. His zeal and keenness towards flood victims was
just a panorama of the other level. His
efforts are recognized in the form of the “Prime Minister Flood Heroes Award”
which is a token of appreciation arranged by Prime Minister Shahbaz Shareef,
the Federal Ministry of Planning and Development and HEC. These heroes were
selected by thoroughly looking at their innumerable struggles. He received his
award from Federal Minister for Planning and Development while Dr. Mukhtar
Ahmad (Chairman HEC), Shaza Fatima Khwaja (MNA Special Assistant), and Dr. Muhammad
Idrees (Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan) joined hands with the encouragement
of our hero.