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Friday, March 24, 2023
World Water Day 2023 Celebrated at The Department of Environmental Sciences, AWKUM
Department
of Environmental Sciences, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan with the financial
support from WaterAid Pakistan organized one day seminar after concluding a
week-long awareness campaign in Schools and Colleges in District Mardan to
commemorate and contribute the global movement for accelerating change to
achieve SDG 6 – clean water and sanitation for all. This was a part of the series of events organized by WaterAid Pakistan
across the country to celebrate and contribute toward the global observance to raise
awareness about the importance of fresh water and issues around poor WASH
services. Participants from academia, civil society
organizations, NGOs, water and sanitation service providers, practitioners and
government line department officials attended the event.
Dr.
Dilawar Farhan Shams, Chairman Department of the Environmental Sciences, AWKUM
welcomed the participants and discuss the aims and objectives of the seminar.
It was revealed that globally over 3.6 billion people, almost half of the world population, do not have
access to safely managed sanitation at their home. Similarly, in
Pakistan 4.5 million population don’t have access to drinking water along with 141
million to safe drinking water and 70 million people have limited access to
sanitation facilities. Dr. Shams Ali Baig delivered a keynote talk on the theme of
accelerating change to achieve the SDG targets. He highlighted the reason of
the off track in achieving SDG 6 and linked with the climate change induced
disasters. The importance of adequate WASH services in adhering good hygiene
practices to improve the overall quality of life were briefly discussed by the
panelists including, Dr. Wali Ullah Khan, Department of Chemistry, Dr. Dilawar
Farhan Shams, Department of Environmental Sciences, and Mr. Rahat Ullah,
Customer Service Manager WSSCM Mardan in the panel discussion.
At the end, Dr. Muhammad
Idris, Director Administration, AWKUM in his closing remarks reiterated the
importance of clean drinking water and thanked WaterAid Pakistan for the
financial support and choosing AWKUM for this event. He also distributed
certificates of appreciation and shield among the participants and organizer.
The event ended with a walk within the campus to raise awareness on the World Water
Day.
رمضان 2023 اور ہماری ذمہ داریاں
شعبہ اسلامیات اور انگلش میں آج 22 مارچ 2023 کو سیرت نبوی ﷺ کی روشنی
میں استقبال رمضان 2023 اور ہماری تیاریاں کے عنوان سے زیر صدارت پروفیسر
ڈاکٹر آیاز احمد،چئرمین شعبہ انگلش ایک پر وقار تقریب کا اہتمام کیا گیا۔
ڈاکٹر سہیل أنور کوارڈینیٹر ایم
فل پروگرام،ڈاکٹر محمد ذکریا کوارڈینیٹر بی ایس پروگرام،ڈاکٹر لیاقت اقبال
کوارڈینیٹر بی ایس انگلش پروگرام،ڈاکٹر عرفان اللہ اسسٹنٹ پروفیسر،ڈاکٹر ابظاہر
خان ایسو سی ایٹ پروفیسر ،دیگر فیکلٹی ممبران،اسسٹنگ سٹاف اور طلبہ طالبات نے کثیر
تعداد میں شرکت کی۔
چیئرمین ڈپیارٹمنٹ آف اسلامک
سٹڈیز عبدالولی خان یونیورسٹی مردان پروفیسر ڈاکٹر حافظ صالح الدین نے ریسور پرسن
کی حیثیت سے اپنے فرائض سر انجام دیے۔
تمہید ی کلمات ڈاکٹر لیاقت اقبال
جب کہ تعارفی بات ڈاکٹر سہیل أنور نے پیش
کیا۔
پرو فیسر ڈاکٹر صالح الدین نے
اپنے لیکچر میں رمضا ن المبارک کے لیے خود کو روحانی طور پر تیار کرنے پر
زور دیا کہ کس طرح ہم اس رمضان المبارک کو گزشتہ رمضان سے زیادہ بہتر اور
کارآمد بنا سکتے ہیں؟
انہوں نے اپنے خطاب میں فرمایا کہ
رمضان کا با برکت مہینہ کل سے شروع ہونے ولا ہے اور ہر ایک مسلمان کو
رمضان کے شب وروز کو دنیوی اور آخروی سعادت حاصل کرنے کیلئے پیشگی منصوبہ بندی
کرنی چاہیے ۔
ہمیں اس
ماہ مقدس سے زیادہ سے زیادہ فوائد سمیٹنے کے لیے سب سے پہلے اپنا
محاسبہ کرنا ہوگا خود احتسابی کا عمل نہایت ضروری ہے اس کے ساتھ ساتھ
اپنے خاندان کے افراد کی بہتری کے لیے ضروری اقدامات کرنے ہوں گے، اپنے کام
کرنے کی جگہ پر خود کو ایک دیانتدار معلم
،سٹو ڈنٹ ،ایک ذمہ دار شہری اور بہترین مسلمان کے طور پر پیش کرنا ہوگا اور
اس کے ساتھ ساتھ نبی کریم ﷺ کے ایک امتی کے طور پر اپنی ذمہ داری کو بجالانا ضروری
ہوگا۔
Flag hoisting ceremony at SRH Campus Pabbi
A flag hoisting ceremony was held on March 23 at SRH Campus Pabbi
Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan in which all the staff as well as Coordinator
participated. On this occasion, the
Coordinator SRH Campus Pabbi Mr. Adil Khan prayed for the security of the
country including the Campus and the University.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Monday, March 20, 2023
A week-long awareness campaign on the eve of World Water Day 2023
Department
of Environmental Sciences, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan with the financial
support from WaterAid Pakistan has started a week-long awareness campaign in
Schools and Colleges in District Mardan to commemorate and contribute the
global movement for accelerating changes to achieve SDG 6 – clean water and
sanitation for all. The awareness
campaign will continue till March 20, followed by a seminar on March 21, 2023. AWKUM
teams conducting comprehensive awareness sessions covering the role of students
in awareness raising around the theme; like, clean drinking water, adequate
sanitation facilities and hygienic behavior in approving the overall health and
hygiene conditions of the society. Overwhelmingly responses were received from
the students and they took keen interest to interlink the poor WASH services
with poor health and adequate WASH services with improved health and hygiene
conditions’ conceptual model. WaterAid Pakistan and the Department of
Environmental Sciences will continue to play their due roles in accelerating awareness
among different stakeholders to put on track the SDG 6: clean water and sanitation for all.
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
AWKUM Food Science & Technology Students Develop Innovative Health Beneficiary Product
Under the remarkable leadership of the Worthy Vice Chancellor,
Prof. Dr. Zahoor Ul Haq, AWKUM is committed to ensure healthy and happy life of
the community through production of safe and healthier food products. In this
regard, students of the Food Science & Technology (FST) under the
supervision of Prof. Dr. Amjad Iqbal and Dr. Sadiq Shah developed a new innovative
health beneficiary product. The product is rich in natural antioxidants, immune
boosting, chemo-preventive and anti-inflammatory compounds that will be equally
good for normal and diabetic persons. An application to patent the product will
be filed before launching it in the market.