Campuses walls to be raised: minister

LAHORE
PUNJAB Minister for Education Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan has said the task related to raising the boundary walls of educational institutions up to eight feet will be completed by 70 percent institutions up to January 05 while the walls of the remaining institutions will completed till January 09.
While addressing a meeting of the head of public and private universities, colleges and different organisations of private schools on Saturday, he further said owners of private schools should also complete security measures so that all the educational institutions should be open on January 12.
The minister said every person, carrying weapon against state of Pakistan, was our enemy. He further said that war against terrorism would be won with the cooperation of people and law enforcement agencies. He said we would have to use the technology for stopping our youth towards extremism and bringing positive change in their thinking. Rana Mashhood also claimed that a network of digital libraries had been laid in the province under e-Learn Punjab Project of Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and the youth should benefit from these libraries instead of wasting their time. He announced the use of these libraries after the official timings of the educational institutions from 3:00pm to 7:00pm as smart libraries. He said these libraries would be given the formation of wisdom centres so that community and students could benefit from them. He added we would have to create courage among ourselves for coping with terrorism.
PhDs: Punjab University (PU) has awarded PhD degrees to five scholars in different subjects.
Fariha Arooj d/o Walayat Shah has been awarded a PhD degree in the subject of Environmental Sciences after an approval of her thesis titled “Application of Advanced Oxidation Process for Bleaching Textile Materials”, Mian Sahib Zar s/o Mian Bakht Zar in the subject of Molecular Biology after the approval of his thesis titled “Comparative Analysis of STRs, Mini-STRs and SNPs for Typing Degraded DNA”, Ashraf Iqbal s/o Shah Muhammad in the subject of Communication Studies after the approval of his thesis titled “Media and Foreign Policy: A Study of Pak-Afghan Relations in the US and Pakistani Press (1997-2005)”, Muhammad Akram s/o Anayat Ullah in the subject of Islamic Studies after the approval of his thesis titled “Shariah Maxims from the Book Al-Hidaya and its Implication on the Issues of Modern Era” and Khaula Kausar d/o Abdul Wakeel Alavi has been awarded a PhD degree in the subject of Islamic Studies after the approval of her thesis titled “Role of Women in Contemporary Politics and Islam (A Case Study of Pakistan)”.