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Teaching is not just job but sacred profession: Dr Khalid Iraqi

October 3, 2024October 3, 2024 by Abid Khan

KARACHI: The University of Karachi and an alumni association of the university, Unikarians International, arranged a special ceremony to appreciate teachers’ role in developing society.

The event was organized in connection with World Teachers’ Day.

The KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi mentioned that a teacher is the architect of any nation or society. Any society that does not respect teachers can never grow and it is not capable of facing challenges.

He said that a teacher is a role model for his students, as he/she teaches his/her thoughts in the minds of students which guides them throughout life. The role of teachers in the development of nations cannot be ignored.

The KU VC Prof Dr Khalid Iraqi shared that students give more respect to teachers who, besides teaching, help them learn about different aspects of life and the norms and values of society.

He expressed that unfortunately, today’s teachers do not have enough time to build the character of their students and also not guiding them about their future. He observed that a society respects you when you contribute to the welfare of a society. There is also a lack of home-based training in respect of teachers in the present age.

The KU VC Prof Dr Khalid Iraqi added that teachers spend their lives for moral and spiritual reform and prosperity. Teaching is not just a job but a sacred profession and a responsibility and should be performed with accountability.

On this occasion, Unikarians International President Professor Ejaz Ahmed Faruqi said that it is our responsibility to appreciate the hard work and dedication of our teachers, both parents and teachers are happy to see their child’s growth and progress more than their own. “We have seen a lot of changes in our daily lives but no one has been able to change the position of the teacher to date.”

He said that teachers make the personality of students and universities are recognized not only by the buildings but by its teachers.

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KU, ICAN signs MoU to enhance quality life of children, young adults

September 12, 2024 by Abid Khan

KARACHI: The Department of Psychology of the University of Karachi and Icon for Child and Adult Nurturing (ICAN), a nongovernmental organization, working to promote positive mental health and wellness of children, young adults, and mothers in society, inked the memorandum of understanding to enhance the quality of life of children, young adults, and mothers at the Vice Chancellor Secretariat.

The KU VC Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi and the Founder and Director of the ICAN Dr Sajida Hassan signed the MoU document in presence of the ICAN team.

On this occasion, the Director of the ICAN Dr Sajida Hassan shared that the organization was formed to establish a connection with communities to serve society. She mentioned that the ICAN is committed to enhancing the overall quality of life for individuals across various life stages, focusing on children and young adults.

She asked the KU administration to start short courses or a specialization degree program on child psychology in the department.

According to her, the ICAN’s strength is derived from close partnerships with grassroots community-based organizations. She added that the organization is working with the University of Leicester, the University of Birmingham, the Welcome Trust of the UK, the Anna Freud Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), in conjunction with Professor Panos Vostanis Child Psychiatrist UK Director of WACIT among many others.

Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi observed that we haven’t addressed the issues related to a child and mother whereas in the West this matter is given due importance. He said that parents need to be aware of their child’s health as they have to play a vital role in the upbringing of a child.

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KU seminar urges gender equality in society

April 17, 2024 by Abid Khan

KARACHI: The role of educated mothers is very essential for the development of societies, a knowledgeable mother can easily educate and train her children in a good way, and the home environment they created can guarantee a well-educated and well-behaved family.

They maintain houses in order and have a major influence on a child, their love and care can mold them into a caring person or spoil their personality. We can witness that there is a lack of counseling, guidance, and training in the parental system in our society and its effects in front of us.

These views were expressed by the Director General of the Charter Inspection and Evaluation Committee of the Sindh Higher Education Commission, Dr Nauman Ahsan.

He was addressing the inaugural session of the seminar organized by the Center of Excellence for Women’s Studies of the University of Karachi in collaboration with the KU Faculty of Law, KU Students’ Advisor Office, KU Office of Research Innovation and Commercialization, and Sindh Higher Education Commission in connection with the International Women’s Day 2024.

The KU CEWS’s seminar titled “Dukhtaran-e-Pakistan: Accelerating Gender Equality, Economic Empowerment and Peace Building and Perception Management” was held at the Karachi University.

Dr Nauman Ahsan shared that as Pakistanis we all break each and every rule and regulation but as soon as we land on the soil of any other country we are willing to obey and follow their rules without any hesitation.

“We will not stand in queues, and do not mind if we drive the wrong way on the streets in our motherland, but we cannot do the same in any foreign country, as we know what kind of reaction and punishment we will get there.”

During his presidential address, the KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi said that countries cannot be developed without promoting gender equality and empowering women.

He mentioned that the money spent on the education system is not an expense but an investment for our future, and added that without quality education we cannot achieve our goals.

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Sindh Dy Speaker lauds KU for implementing 2% quota for minorities

April 3, 2024 by Abid Khan

KARACHI: The Deputy Speaker of the Sindh Assembly Anthony Naveed along with the members of the National Lobbying Delegation for Minority Rights meets the Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi to felicitate him on adopting and implementing a two percent admission quota policy for the religious minorities in one of the largest universities of the country.

The NLD delegates comprised human rights activists, educationists, lawyers, journalists, and other professionals from all over Pakistan.

The deputy speaker of the Sindh Assembly Anthony Naveed and the NLD delegation congratulated the KU VC Prof Dr Khalid Iraqi for opening the door of opportunities to young students of different religious minorities.

During the meeting, the deputy speaker of the provincial assembly Anthony Naveed shared that the University of Karachi is the first public sector university that has adopted and implemented the admission policy for the youngsters of religious minorities.

He hoped that other universities would follow the University of Karachi and implement the same policy at the earliest. According to him, the governments have announced and decided to give a five percent job quota for the religious minorities but as most of them do not have quality education, they were unable to get hands on those jobs.

“I am sure that we will see the reflection of the KU policy across the country shortly, and students of religious minorities will be getting higher education in the reputed universities. The University of Karachi has taken the lead by offering admission quota to the youngsters of religious minorities.”

On this occasion, the NLD members briefed that the platform was established to combine efforts to resolve issues faced by minorities in Pakistan. They mentioned that rather than staging protests or sit-ins or holding demonstrations, they prefer to lobby to achieve basic minority rights.

KU VC Prof Dr Khalid Iraqi informed the deputy speaker of the Sindh Assembly Anthony Naveed, and the visiting delegation that the Academic Council of the University of Karachi has unanimously approved the two percent admission quota policy for the religious minorities.

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KU Academic Council approves allocation of quota of 2% seats for minorities

March 11, 2024 by Abid Khan

KARACHI: The meeting of the Academic Council of the University of Karachi approved the allocation of the quota of two percent reserved seats for religious minorities on the campus.

The Universities and Boards Department of the Sindh government has written a letter to the public sector universities to adopt the agenda as a policy matter.

Meanwhile, the participants of the meeting mentioned that the merits of admissions criteria would remain the same for the religious minorities and the students should fulfill their applications to secure their admissions.

The KU Academic Council was chaired by the KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi and the meeting was held at the Chinese Teachers Memorial Auditorium on Monday.

The KU Academic Council approved the Anti-Plagiarism Policy 2.0, issued by the HEC-Islamabad, and also approved the Pharmacy Council of Pakistan’s recommendations to give 10 additional admissions/seats to Gilgit/Baltistan and Balochistan in the faculty of pharmacy.

In light of the letter of the Higher Education Commission Islamabad, regarding the implementation of the Affiliation Policy 2024, the committee was formed. The convener of the committee is Prof Dr Faiyaz Vaid, and members include Prof Dr Anila Amber Malik, Prof Farah Iqbal, Prof Tanzeem ul-Firdoos, Prof Munawar Abbas, and Prof Muhammad Ashraf.

This Committee would prepare a detailed report after mutual consultation and submit it to the KU VC Prof Dr Khalid Iraqi and later that report will be sent to HEC-Islamabad.

To implement the Seerat course, Quran’s translation, Tajweed, and Tafsir course, as per the direction of the Senate Secretariat Islamabad, the KU Academic Council formed a five-member committee.

During the meeting, the representatives of college teachers highlighted the problems they are facing due to the absence of the college’s academic calendar and shared that it is causing serious issues for the colleges affiliated with the University of Karachi.

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KU, World Bank discusses potential of establishment of CESS

January 26, 2024 by Abid Khan

KARACHI: A five-member delegation of the World Bank(WB) led by its Senior Social Development Specialist of Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice Imran ul Haq met the Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi

During the meeting, they discussed the potential of the establishment of the WB’s Centre for Environmental and Social Sustainability initiative in Pakistan. WB’s Imran Haq informed that the World Bank is interested in creating a center of excellence in the province which could help in catering the environmental issues, and help in providing durable and long-lasting solutions, and social sustainability in the country.

He shared that the proposed CESS project aims to create ownership among individuals and all the stakeholders including governments, industries, masses, and academia besides the capacity building of a society.

Imran ul Haq mentioned that the WB delegation has shortlisted four possible varsities for the establishment of CESS and the University of Karachi is one of them.

According to him, they have linked up with 16 universities and after a thorough process, they have shortlisted four universities in Karachi and initially met with the heads of all three institutions before visiting the KU.

He elaborated that the CESS is supposed to strengthen the partnership of donors, governments, industries, academia, and others in environmental and social sustainability of the development process as well as help in improving environmental conditions, safeguarding social values, educating the importance of the CESS to society, doing in-depth research, preparing policies to protect the environment and improve the quality of the environment.

He said that the WB would like to take other donor agencies on board too regarding the CESS and hoped that with the collaboration of institutions like the Asian Development Bank, and Japan International Cooperation Agency the CESS project would be more useful for society.

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KU, IoBM signs MoU to boost research, commercialization support

November 1, 2023 by Abid Khan

Both universities will collaborate for joint research projects.
The MoU aims to assist startups on an idea/prototype basis.
IoBM would like to collaborate with public and private universities.

KARACHI: The University of Karachi and the Institute of Business Management University of Karachi inked a memorandum of understanding to enhance the research, innovation, commercialization, and incubation support among the academia.

The KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi and the acting Rector IoBM Prof Dr Tariq Rahim Soomro inked the MoU documents at the VC Secretariat. The officials of the Office of Research, Innovation, and Commercialization of both varsities were present on this occasion.

As per the MoU, both universities will collaborate for joint research projects and exchange of knowledge, arrange capacity-building activities for researchers, faculty members, and students, and hold product development activities and mentorship activities.

The MoU aims to assist startups on an idea/prototype basis and at the pilot stage, engage researchers and faculty in joint seminars, conferences, and workshops, hold guest speaker and training sessions, provide student entrepreneurship support, and arrange knowledge exchange for learning and sharing best practices on innovation and startup ecosystem development.

On this occasion, the acting Rector IoBM Prof Dr Tariq Soomro expressed that the Higher Education Commission should acknowledge and support the PhD thesis which could have the capacity to solve the problems of our society and industries. He urged that PhD scholars should aim to research the topics that could help in solving the issues and matters of the country.

He shared that the IoBM would like to collaborate with the public and private sector universities so that they could come up with new and fresh ideas to promote the research and innovation culture in the country in general and in the province in particular.

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President urges Pakistani students to learn artificial intelligence

March 18, 2023 by Abid Khan

He said that there was ample space in the field of IT.
Dr Arif Alvi said He underscored the need to prioritise our decisions.
He applauded the efforts of government for fighting COVID-19 smartly.

KARACHI: President Dr. Arif Alvi has urged Pakistani students to learn and apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to compete in the modern IT industrial era.

He said that there was ample space in the field of IT that can be filled up by Pakistani youth to contribute to the economic prosperity of the country.

The President expressed these views while addressing the conference” titled Traditional & Non Traditional Security Imperatives for Pakistan, at the University of Karachi.

The Vice Chancellor of Karachi University Dr. Khalid Iraqi, the executive Director CISSS Ambassador Qazi Khaliullah and the Chairperson International Relations Department Karachi University Dr. Shaista Tabasum, the teachers and students were also present in large numbers on the occasion.

President Dr Arif Alvi stated that to establish a healthy and balanced society, people should have basic education and health facilities.

He underscored the need to prioritise our decisions while making decisions in daily life or policy making, we must keep social and societal needs, problems, and attitudes in mind.

The President said that there were 9 million births in Pakistan each year, 50% of which are unintentional. Through proper planning, information, and provision of facilities, not only can the growing population be controlled, but it is also possible to solve the health problems of women they suffer during pregnancy.

He stated that the natural resources alone are not sufficient for a country’s prosperity, but natural resources along with intellectual resources are important to utilize them efficiently. Nature has blessed us as a nation with enormous abilities, but that due to a lack of proper utilisation of these resources and abilities, we have fallen behind our neighbouring countries in the race for development in every field of life, he further added.

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KU is ready to conduct surveys of floods damages

December 24, 2022 by Abid Khan

Irfan Sheikh said Pakistan has not come up with reliable estimates of the damages.
Dr. Faizullah Abbasi appreciated the research studies of Karachi University.
Dr Sardar Sarfaraz said Pakistan has experienced exceptionally high levels of monsoon.

KARACHI: In his message on the occasion of a high-profile seminar “Devastating Floods – Mitigation & Way Forward,” President FPCCI Irfan Iqbal Sheikh, has expressed his concerns that Pakistan has not yet come up with a broad-based, pragmatic, detailed and reliable estimates of the damages caused by the floods; reconstruction cost of the damages to the infrastructure and rehabilitation of the flood affectees.

Chairing the high-profile seminar at the Federation House, Engr. M. A. Jabbar, VP FPCCI, explained that the recent floods were not the result of climate change alone as he has been keenly observing the history in the making over the last 5 decades and the recurrent incidents of devastating floods in Pakistan.

He also pointed out that the estimated $30 billion rehabilitation estimates are not backed by sufficient data; and, he agrees, the real damages may be even higher or lower as well.

The guest of honor, Dr. Khalid Iraqi, VC Karachi University, offered that Karachi University is ready to assist federal and provincial governments to conduct studies and surveys in floods damage mitigation and the way forward.

Dr. Faizullah Abbasi, VC of Dawood University of Engineering & Technology (DUET), appreciated the research studies of Karachi University; where they have pointed out the problem areas for rainwater accumulation and lack of drainage; which, in turn, causes much of the damage.

Dr. Sardar Sarfaraz, Chief Meteorologist of Karachi, apprised that Pakistan has experienced exceptionally high levels of monsoon this year; and, warned that the trend in the last decade shows that monsoon pressures will continue to be more aggressive in Pakistan in the years to come.

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