Zubair Qureshi
Medals, degrees and special awards were given to the passing out graduates on their exemplary performance at the 19th convocation of the Capital University of Science & Technology (CUST) held at the Jinnah Convention Centre on Thursday.
Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC) Dr Mukhtar Ahmad was the chief guest on the occasion while renowned IT professional Syed Ahmed was the Guest of Honour.
Vice Chancellor Prof Dr M Mansoor Ahmed while congratulating the passing out graduates delivered the welcome speech. He highlighted the contribution made by the university in the field of higher education and hoped that the graduates would contribute towards scientific and technological development of the country through their ability, dignity, determination and commitment.
Chief Guest Prof Dr Mukhtar Ahmed also congratulated the students and their parents on the historic occasion. He said it was a major turn in the lives of the passing out students and wished them a successful career ahead. He said education played a vital role in the economic development of the country and raised the productivity and efficiency of individuals. “Pakistan,” he said “is facing daunting economic challenges and it is the duty of the youth to face and overcome these challenges.”
We should do our level best to find viable solutions to the myriad of problems that we are encountering. We should act like an educated nation to solve our problems and demonstrate our abilities to meet the challenges of the high-tech era.
On the occasion, 35 graduates were awarded PhD degrees. They included Sumaira Andleeb, Iftikhar Ali Janjua, Umer Niaz, Natasha Zahid, Asad Ali Jaffari, Zia ul Islam and Muhammad Aksar in Finance, Muhammad Asad, Gulfam Murtaza and Muhammad Usman Anwar Baig in Human Resource Management. Shahid Shafiq, Ahmed, Qamaruddin, Asif Mehmood Khan, Ahmed Bilal Mehmood, Abrar Hussain Hashmi, Hafiz Muhammad Yasir Naeem, Zohaib Latif, Sidra Ghayour Bhatti, Mukhtiar Bano, Muhammad Shahid Shafiq, Osama Bin Islam, Rizwan Sabir in Engineering. Kashif Nasr, Nadeem Fakhar, Muhammad Saboor Ahmed, Asif Muhammad, Raabia Mumtaz, Raja Muhammad Waqas Ahmed, Sajjad Haider, Saif Ullah, Lubna Zafar, Jawad Usman and Arshad in Computer Science Tahir Sajjad Ali and Muhammad ur Rehman Siddique in Mathematics and Fakhra Nazir in the field of Bioinformatics.
